Cheers,
Web 2.0: The Next Generation Internet
( ...And Why Microsoft Just Reorganized )
University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business Web 2.0 Panel
The Next Generation of Internet Applications and Business Models
Mark your calendars for this one-of-a kind event. On Tuesday, November 1 at 5:30 PM in GSB 2.120, the Entrepreneur Society and Information Management Association will host a panel on Web 2.0 -- the next generation of internet applications, technologies and business models. All attendees will receive a free t-shirt!
Find out why Microsoft just reorganized and what is driving the strategy of Yahoo!, Google and hundreds of smaller technology companies and startups around the country and around the world. What's the reality and what's hype? We're hosting four major local players in the Web 2.0 space:
- Dave Panos: Founder and CEO of Pluck, one of Austin's hottest start-ups with the #1 browser-based RSS reader and the software behind the Austin American-Statesman's citizen journalism/blogging program. Pluck has raised $10 million from leading venture capital firms, including Austin Ventures and Mayfield and has received CNET and ZDNET Editor's Choice Awards. And, Pluck is hiring!
- Alexander Muse: Entrepreneur and venture capitalist Alexander Muse created M | Ventures, which focuses almost exclusively on the Web 2.0 space.
- Brian Oberkirch: CEO, Weblogs Work, a Dallas-based blog consultancy helping all types of companies get in on the new online conversation via do-it-yourself media tools. Brian's a reformed ad agency guy, applying the good stuff he learned launching national communication programs for clients like Pergo, PrimeCo, Nokia and others in a Web 2.0 world. Find him blogging at http://www.weblogswork.com and http://www.lightbox5.com/likeitmatters/.
- Ben Brown: Editor of Austinist -- one of Austin's most widely read and informative blogs -- and creator of the hipster dating site Consumating.
So mark your calendars and plan to attend and learn why the next generation Internet has Microsoft changing the way they do business.
Web 2.0: The web as platform; data as the "Intel Inside"; network effects driven by an Architecture of Participation ; innovation in assembly of systems and sites composed by pulling together features from distributed, independent developers; lightweight business models enabled by content and service syndication; the end of the software adoption cycle, Perpetual Beta . Software above the level of a single device; leveraging the power of the Long Tail .
For a ton more reference info and event-related info, check out the panel WIKI.