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Digg, Google Wave Seize Spotlight at Web 2.0 Expo
by Clint Boulton
Meet Your Co-hosts
Web 2.0 Expo co-hosts Brady Forrest and Jen Pahlka prepare to introduce Tim O'Reilly.
O'Reilly Cautions Against Closed Web
O'Reilly exhorts programmers in the audience to do the right thing and create open-source software without boundaries. He also lauds Microsoft as an emerging open Web practitioner.
Digg It?
From left to right, Digg CEO Jay Adelson, Digg founder Kevin Rose and Web 2.0 Expo co-host Brady Forrest discuss where Digg came from and where it's going. The new Digg will boast "instant Digging" that doesn't require registration or a log-in, better filtering of topics to fit any number of niche interests and a "smarter" way to gauge story popularity.
Hunch
Hunch Chief Product Officer Caterina Fake, who also co-founded Flickr, discusses how her startup helps users find answers they're looking for online, drawing on the wisdom of crowds.
Microsoft's Danah Boyd
Boyd, a social media researcher at Microsoft Research, speed-reads a paper on social networking constructs, prompting many in the audience to tweet potshots at her presentation skills on Twitter. Read her presentation on the stream of content flowing through social media here.
Gina Trapani
Trapani, founder of Lifehacker, wrote an extensive user manual for Google Wave, the real-time collaboration platform. Wave enables e-mail, instant messaging, document sharing and social networking in one palette.
What Wave Is (and Isn't)
Trapani tries to explain Wave, which has confounded (or annoyed) even tech-savvy geeks. She calls it more of a new document collaboration platform than a new way to do e-mail.
When Wave Works Best
Keep it small and simple. Too many people equals too many bouncing cursors.
Wave for Project Management
Trapani explains how Wave can be used to manage projects.
Photo Sharing in Wave
Who needs Flickr when you can use Wave, which enables users to upload and share photos and other files?
Wave Interactive Content
Wave extensions and gadgets help users extend Wave's usability. Here Trapani shows how users can make phone calls within Wave using BT Ribbit's Wave gadget.
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NEW YORK—The Web 2.0 Expo was not quite the news frenzy that its San Francisco-based brother Web 2.0 Summit was in 2009. But the show's creator, high-tech publishing guru Tim O'Reilly, provided some zing Nov. 17 by arguing that arms races between Google and Apple as well as Facebook and Twitter threaten to stifle the Internet as we know it. O'Reilly also said Microsoft would emerge as a major player in the open Web ecosystem. Digg founder Kevin Rose and Digg CEO Jay Adelson discussed the past, present and future of Digg, while Hunch Chief Product Officer Caterina Fake and Microsoft researcher Danah Boyd held forth on the social Web. Lifehacker founder Gina Trapani discussed some Google Wave use cases.