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Web 2.0 Summit Opens: Today's Revolution Akin to Web 2.0 in 2004

Source: readwriteweb

Oct 20, 2009

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We're at the 6th annual Web 2.0 conference, currently known as the Web 2.0 Summit. John Battelle and Tim O'Reilly opened the conference. O'Reilly spoke about being at another transition point for the Web. They have termed this "web squared", a.k.a. "web meets world." O'Reilly said that in the current era "we're starting to instrument the world." He referenced a quote from VC Fred Wilson, that we are currently in a "golden triangle of mobile, social and real-time."

O'Reilly remarked that we're "starting to see what may be the next wave of internet business models." Speaking of the evolution of both the conference the whole web 2.0 trend, he noted that the "revolution we're seeing today is as great as the one we saw five years ago."

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We at ReadWriteWeb have been noticing something new in 2009 too. At the ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit last week, I spoke to a number of startups and smart Web people. There was a real sense of excitement and innovation in the air, which reminded me of the first Web 2.0 conference I attended in 2005 (I wasn't there for the firs