Monthly Archives: November 2006

JavaOne 2006 Conference Notes

I am already looking forward to JavaOne 2007. I had a great time at this year’s JavaOne and I thought I clean up and shape up my JavaOne conference blog posts into a single PDF document. The JavaOne 2006 Conference Notes highlights the following 21 JavaOne sessions…

Wednesday, June 17 2006
JavaOne Wednesday General Session [...]

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Amazon’s Risky Bet

The November 13, 2006 issue of BusinessWeek had a great cover of Jeff Bezos and Amazon’s move into webservices such as Simple Storage Service and Elastic Compute Cloud. As part of the cover story, BusinessWeek had a nice inset of Jeff Bezos playbook. Some of the best practices I have covered here recently [...]

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Matt Mullenweg – The Story behind WordPress

The last speaker of the Future of Web Applications conference was Matt Mullenweg of WordPress fame. Matt’s talk was a nice way to end two days of great presentations. According to Matt, in the future of web applications everybody will have their 15 pixels of fame. Matt also said that, “The luckiest [...]

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Jeff Veen – Designing Better Web App Interfaces

Jeff Veen of Google is the Project Lead of MeasureMap and he spoke at the Future of Web Applications regarding designing a better web user interface. Jeff start off his talk by saying that buzzwords are often used as a proxy for intelligent thought. He also reminded the attendees that booms and bust [...]

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Ryan Carson – 14 Things I Wish I Had Known

Ryan Carson is the Future of Web Applications conference organizer and he spoke about what he wish he had known before starting his online ventures, Hey Amigo, Drop Send, and Think Vitamin. Ryan started his session by saying, “We built three web applications, the first one we don’t talk about.” Here are the [...]

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Evan Williams – Funding and Selling A Startup

Evan Williams is the entrepreneur behind Blogger and Odeo. Evan sold Blogger to The Borg of Web 2.0 startups, Google. “We are the Googleplex. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.” Evan was at the Future of Web Apps conference in San Francisco to talk about his experience with web [...]

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