Web 2.0 Expo, Has Record Attendance
San Francisco, California – (Website Hosting Directory) – May 2, 2008 – The O’Reilly Media, Inc. and TechWeb Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, saw a record attendance this year, with over 10,000 verified attendees.
This number of attendees, compared to last year’s event, highlights a growth of more than 20 percent. Marking the second year of this successful event, Web 2.0 Expo this year, at Moscone West in San Francisco.
Jennifer Pahlka, Co-chair of Web 2.0 Expo noted, ”We are thrilled by the positive response to this year’s Expo. Both the jump in numbers and the tenor of the conversations this week attest to the momentum of this market. We expect that we’ve only begun to see the impact of Web 2.0 on business, culture, and society.”
The second Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco touched all corners of the Web ecosystem, from technical to marketing to business issues. Demand for the event sets the stage for the launch of Web 2.0 Expo New York on September 16-19, 2008, and the return of Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco, taking place on April 1-3, 2009.
Web 2.0 Expo gathers designers, developers, entrepreneurs, marketers, business strategists, and venture capitalists who have experiences to share and a passion for learning about Web 2.0 applications. As the meeting place for major innovation and change on the web, additional upcoming events include Web 2.0 Expo Europe in Berlin, Germany, October 21-23; and Web 2.0 Expo Tokyo, December 3-4, 2008.
The lineup for 2008 program will included:
AirSet unveiled a new paradigm for computing in the cloud. With this launch, AirSet provides a host of new features that will allow you to seamlessly share, organize, and manage your personal and professional lives on any computer, anywhere. Booth #LT02
Confluence is the world’s most popular enterprise wiki and Confluence 2.8 brings a simplified screen design for viewing and editing, providing a far more intuitive way of interacting with your wiki page. Visit the Atlassian booth or visit www.atlassian.com/confluence. Booth #535
BigString unveiled a new messaging application that compliments its vast lines of products that focus on its patent-pending recallable, self-destructing messaging systems. Demonstrations will be available at Booth #LT13
Web 2.0 platinum sponsor Cynergy — the global leader in Rich Internet Application development — unveiled details of new client engagements, strategic partnerships and product launches showcasing the breadth of Cynergy’s presence in the global market. Booth #721
Curl, Inc. will be announcing the beta release of Curl Nitro, the code name for an extension of the Curl Rich Internet Application platform which offers enhanced desktop capabilities required by today’s enterprises. Booth #527
DreamFace Interactive and Twinsoft combine technologies provided robust, end-to-end Enterprise Mashups. DreamFace Interactive announces the integration of their next generation Web 2.0 Framework with Twinsoft’s Convertigo Enterprise Mashup Server bringing Web 2.0 innovation like Client Side Integration, Interactive Data Widgets, Personalization and Sharing to the modernization of legacy applications. Booth #1020
Jaduka introduced its Transaction Processing Services Platform for mobile media and software providers. Digital publishers can integrate end-to-end merchandising, inventory, POSA, and account management using Jaduka’s API. Jaduka also showcases Jaduka Labs and its Enterprise Solutions Platform, enabling developers to create communications-enabled business applications that improve online customer experience and business processes. Booth #310
Kirix released a new ”data browser” called Strata, a fusion of a Web browser and a built-in relational database. Whether digging through Web logs or mashing up Web data, Strata is an exceptional tool for working with data on or around the web (kkaczmarek@kirix.com). Booth #244
Lithium Technologies, enterprise customer community developer, announced the availability of Kudos, a content rating system that creates social networks through members’ evaluation of community content. Users signal their approval with a single click, and the platform tracks the resulting social graph, highlighting top content, top authors, and the relationships that emerge among community members. Booth #540
LiquidApps, enterprise-scale applications and mashups firm debuted. Today’s knowledge workers need the flexibility promised by Web services and SOA. LiquidApps delivers on the promise with no run-time licenses or proprietary libraries, releasing your information to any device, any platform. Booth #221
LongJump, a platform for highly customizable, interconnected on-demand business applications, announced a partnership with a large, global distributor that will serve to expand its footprint into other vertical markets and will issue an announcement that will be of keen interest to developers and consultants. Booth #515
magnify360 unveiled an entire UI update and added capabilities of the magnify360 Platform. The company will also publish a case study on client Continental’s search advertising optimization. Results include 90% lead volume lift in four months and $1.5M in projected incremental annual revenue. Booth #943 Morfik launches the next generation of WebOS
AppsBuilder — the complete solution that lets you design, build and deploy Ajax applications through a single, ultra-modern, visual environment. Taking a web project from conception to production has never been easier. Morfik is there to help you, every step of the way. Booth #428
/n software announced the beta availability of a new pure Java version of the award winning RSSBus Feed Server. RSSBus Feed Server facilitates the integration of disparate systems through a rich set of customizable connectors, capable of accessing data from almost any database, application, service, or other data source. Booth #630
Octopz advanced online collaboration software, for creative professionals working with digital media, announced the latest release of its secure and extensible collaboration platform that will enable synchronous online co-creation and support for new media formats — dramatically improving productivity and workflow. Booth #228
Oosah announced a web-based platform for organizing and sharing photos, videos, and music. Through Oosah, consumers can centralize management of media content from multiple Web sites, including social networking, and photo and video hosting sites. Developers can also use Oosah to create branded rich media widgets. Booth #LT10
To create new ways for people to illustrate and share their lives online and off, Photobucket — the world’s largest photo and video site — introduced new resources for the developer community. Leading Internet, mobile and consumer-technology partners will participate in an announcement and conduct demos at Photobucket. Booth #735.
Profy announced the public launch of its one-stop web platform for all things blogging. The Profy solution provides a single point of comprehensive access to every creative tool a blogger could want and leverages the social aspect of blogging. Booth #940 Symphoniq (www.symphoniq.com), a pioneer in real end user performance monitoring, plans to announce TrueView 2.0. TrueView harnesses the real user experience and provides the insight organizations need to optimize their infrastructure and address new performance challenges created by SOA, SaaS, Web services and Web 2.0. Booth #314
Truviso announced that Technorati, portal to the world’s blogs, will use Truviso’s powerful analytic and categorization technology to analyze and graphically display the true "pulse" of the blogosphere. By using the Truviso system, visitors to Technorati can watch as ideas wax and wane, and see changes as they occur. Booth #LT4
Vyew announced Vyew 3.0 and Vyew Appliance. Vyew 3.0 improves web conferencing and visual collaboration with contextual discussions, voice notes, Webcam support, an API and other enhancements. Vyew Appliance is a server appliance for organizations requiring optimal security for Web conferencing, remote training and visual collaboration. Booth #LT3
Xbosoft leads as China’s largest outsourcing company focused only on QA software testing. Its cutting edge XBO ONE, XBO MachONE, and XBO CommONE technologies are easily accessible in a fixed price QuickRelease package, designed to meet contemporary Web 2.0 testing challenges and get your applications to market faster. Booth #214
Zude’s platform, which provides users an unprecedented level of freedom and design creativity, is partnering with three one-of-a-kind companies: Widgetbox for 44 thousand unique widgets, Myxer for user-generated direct-to-mobile ringtones, videos, and wallpapers, and ShopIt for personalized storefronts. Booth #204
During Web 2.0 Expo Znak, www.znak-it.com, presented Znak it! — a powerful pay-as-you-go service, ideal for web surfers and content providers, including bloggers, news archives and social networks. Convenient, quick, safe and fair. Booth #141
A forum for creativity, engineering, and innovation, Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco includes a multi-track conference, an ”unconference”, program called Web2Open, a major tradeshow, and many networking events. Web 2.0 Expo will spotlight a number of keynotes, including Marc Andreesen, Max Levchin and Johnathan Schwartz, to name a few.
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