Experiences from the Web 2.0 Expo

We just got back from the Web 2.0 show and wanted to give our
impressions of the show. Here's our impression of the conference in
four words: packed, infrastructure, APIs, and enterprise.

Packed

The
conference was packed, prompting Tim O'Reilly to comment that the Web
2.0 moniker has gone far beyond his expectations for attracting people.
In the first evening, so many people were in the exhibit hall it
wasn’t possible to move between the booths.

Infrastructure

There was an interesting talk by Jeff Bezos
on Amazon’s EC2 platform, which stands for their Elastic Compute
Cloud. Combined with their Simple Message Queue service and Simple
Storage (S3) storage, Amazon is positioning itself as the computing
platform for hosting scalable web applications. In other words, if you
want to build a Web 2.0 company, use Amazon’s infrastructure to
host your applications. Interestingly, SalesForce.com also has a
similar message with their Apex programming language. You can build you
SalesForce.com applications using Apex, run your application on
SalesForce.com server infrastructure, and sell your applications
through the ApexExchange exchange.

I predict we will see similar offerings from Google and Microsoft in the coming months.

In
looking at this infrastructure trend, I get the strong feeling there
will be a whole new segment of small, fast moving companies who are
very good at combining data from multiple sources using such platforms
to get to market quickly (and cheaply).

APIs

Speaking
of data, many of the interesting talks were around data, the rise of
APIs and their business models. I particularly liked John
Musser’s (programmableweb.com) presentation, accessible in PDF
from here.

Enterprise

There
was a lot more enterprise activity at the show than previous Web 2.0
conferences. There were the usual crowd of wikis and collaborative
software, but I noticed a lot more companies (RSS Bus, Dapper, Kapow,
Denodo, and Strike Iron) offering enterprise tools to create APIs from
your data sources.

Many data today is trapped in web-based
applications that don’t offer an API. Using tools from these
companies, you can create a REST or RSS API to extract data and mashup
with other applications.

KlipFolio can read data from any HTTP
request (REST or RSS) and alert you on the desktop when it changes. We
see this trend towards APIs and mashups creating more opportunities for
integrating KlipFolio into the enterprise.

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