I'm in Berlin this week at the Web 2.0 Expo. I'm sure there are plenty of others live-blogging the conference, but I wanted to jot down and share a few key themes I'm hearing.

Utility computing - The web is evolving so quickly that startups can't afford to waste time doing things that don't differentiate them from competitors. Getting servers, configuring routers, and negotiating bandwidth contracts takes time away from actually building an application that can succeed in the market. Platforms like Amazon's EC2 (and S3, etc.) can provide exactly the amount of capacity needed at any moment, enabling startups to control costs and scale rapidly.

Social, social, social - Every tenth word spoken at the conference is "social". With Facebook's API and Google's OpenSocial being big news lately, everyone's talking about building social web apps. Tim O'Reilly stated a community and the content it generates is the barrier to entry that gives Web 2.0 companies a competitive advantage over challengers.

Great conference so far.. except for lunch.

Posted by JoshC at November 7, 2007 8:08 AM

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