Daily Bytes:Web2.0Summit – Mary Meeker, Social Search & #w2s Tweets
Posted on Thu, Oct 22, 2009
Today’s Daily Bytes focuses more on the happenings from this year’s Web 2.0 Summit, including a great analysis of Mary Meeker’s annual state of the internet Tuesday from Read Write Web, advancements in social search as Google and Twitter are in final stages of an alliance and a recap of tweets from the last day of the Web 2.0 Summit.
Emerging Internet Trends: An Analysis of Mary Meeker’s Web 2.0 Summit Presentation
In yesterday’s Daily Bytes, I included a recap of Mary Meeker’s presentation from the first day of the Web 2.0 Summit. Today ReadWriteWeb went beyond a recap and put together a great analysis of the presentation, including Mary’s analysis of this current time period versus the 2001 time frame.
Global Technology Sector Revenue & Y/Y Growth, CQ1: 96 – CQ4: 09E
Looking at this chart, the post goes on to conclude that we can assume that the next great internet wave will be upon us by 2011. Read Write Web also further examines Mary’s comments as it relates to mobile. Lastly, the post points out that Mary’s presentation omitted other important trends, such as “Internet of Things and real-time web”.
RT @google: Tweets and updates and search, oh my!
Marissa Mayer, VP of Search Products and User Experience, writes about how Google and Twitter have “have reached an agreement with Twitter to include their updates in our search results.” This puts Google into the world of real-time search or social search. This announcement a day after Twitter and Bing had made a similar announcement. To learn more about Google’s plan in this arena, here is a video of Marissa Mayer talking about this deal at the Web 2.0 Summit yesterday. I watched it and am extremely excited about this development professionally and personally. It really has the potential to harness the “wisdom of crowds”. It is just under 8 minutes and is a worthwhile watch if you are interested in where search is going:
We follow Twitter on the last day of Web 2.0 Summit, so you don’t have to
I have been tracking the tweets coming from the Web 2.0 Summit so I could vicariously feel like I was there. The tweet stream has been interesting and illuminating. Plus it forced me to be participatory. For example, today John Battelle tweeted that there was going to be a special guest that was at the first summit 5 years ago to close the summit and invited tweeps to guess who? Tweeps were punching out guesses while I was searching on line to find out who was there at the Web 2.0 conference in 2004. Much to my dismay, I guessed wrong and it wound up being Sergey Brin of Google. To get a more interesting peek at the Twitterverse at the Web 2.0 Summit this year, check out this post from the Industry Standard which provides interesting insights from the conversations at this year’s Web 2.0 Summit.