The famous Web 2.0 Summit wrapped up late last week with lots and lots of product announcements and more news stories than I could ever hope to digest. (Not helped by the fact that I have been sick for about 4 days now.)

Anyway here are a few summary items:

• If teens are confused by Twitter but love Facebook what does that tell us? Could it be the nature of the communication, to quote the NY Times:

“Many people use it for professional purposes — keeping connected with industry contacts and following news,” said Evan Williams, Twitter’s co-founder and chief executive. “Because it’s a one-to-many network and most of the content is public, it works for this better than a social network that’s optimized for friend communication.”

• The iPhone is heading towards being the most successful gadget ever.


• Tim Berners-Lee tells us the biggest threat to keeping the Web open is large companies or governments. Also he is not sold on cloud computing.


• Both Google and Microsoft have got into the real time search game, by indexing Twitter with Microsoft including Facebook updates.


• But