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The First Web 2.0 Conference

The First Web 2.0 Conference

Image creditJD Lasica from Pleasanton, CA, US
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The First Web 2.0 Conference

Year
2004
Creator
Tim O'Reilly, John Battelle, Dale Dougherty; photograph by JD Lasica
Company
O'Reilly Media and MediaLive International
Location
Hotel Nikko, San Francisco, California

Description

This photograph shows Tim O'Reilly as he interviews Jeff Bezos of Amazon on stage at the first Web 2.0 Conference. O'Reilly Media and MediaLive International held the conference at the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco on October 5 to 7, 2004.

Importance

The conference gave a name to the web companies that grew after the dot-com crash, and its theme was the web as a platform. In 2005, O'Reilly wrote an essay that defined Web 2.0 as services that improve when more people use them, such as Wikipedia and Flickr. YouTube, which started in 2005, used the same method with videos from its users.

Interesting fact

At a meeting to plan the conference, Dale Dougherty of O'Reilly said that the web was more important than ever after the crash.

Sources

  1. What Is Web 2.0 (Internet Archive copy of the O'Reilly Network original) ↗O'Reilly Media (Tim O'Reilly) · 2005-09-30
  2. File:Tim O'Reilly & Jeff Bezos (153327706).jpg (photo caption, Web 2.0 Conference 2004) ↗Wikimedia Commons · 2004-10-06
  3. Revving Up at the 2005 Web 2.0 Conference ↗Cybercultural
  4. Web 2.0 Conference, October 5-7, 2004, Hotel Nikko, San Francisco (conference home page, Internet Archive copy) ↗O'Reilly Media and MediaLive International · 2004-10-05
  5. What Is Web 2.0: Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software (reprint) ↗Communications & Strategies, via MPRA · 2007
  6. Google To Acquire YouTube for $1.65 Billion in Stock ↗Google · 2006-10-09