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Supernova Conference 2005
Supernova Blogcast
Supernova, a conference focused on the decentralization of computing, communications, digital media, and business, was held June 20-22, 2005, in San Francisco, California, USA. CNET News.com, in association with Supernova and Knowledge@Wharton, offered blogcast coverage of the conference from this page. David Weinberger--popular industry analyst, writer and blogger--interviewed panel moderators as well as session attendees. You can also check out other community reactions at the Supernova 2005 site. Or read the special coverage from Knowledge@Wharton.

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Table of contents

Dick Hardt - Sxip - Identity 2.0

Watch the video with Dick Hardt

June 22, 2005 David Weinberger: "What might user-focused digital identity look like?" Watch the video with Dick Hardt.


Dave Sifry - Technorati - Supporting Live8

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June 22, 2005 David Weinberger: "Live8 wants your voice, not your money, a chance for the Blogosphere to be pro-active rather than reactive." Watch the video with Dave Sifry.


Glenn Reid - 5 Across

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June 22, 2005 David Weinberger: "Beyond type-and-post blogging" Watch the video with Glenn Reid.


J.D. Lasica - The Darknet - Open Media

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June 22, 2005 David Weinberger: "J.D reports on the current status of OpenMedia.org, a site where anyone can upload video, etc. And, do we yet know what citizen journalism is going to look like?" Watch the video with J.D. Lasica.


Suw Charman - The unsaid of blogging

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June 22, 2005 David Weinberger: "Discussions of blogging still tend to center on the high-traffic sites, but the truly transformative power of blogs comes from the way they're strenghthening small groups of weakly tied people." Watch the video with Suw Charman.


Phil Wolff - Skype Journal - The Skype transformation

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June 22, 2005 David Weinberger: "Skype, the free way to make calls from computer to computer, provides an infrastructure from which surprises are already emerging. Why and how are incumbent interests trying to subvert it?" Watch the video with Phil Wolff.


Adaptive Path, The new breeze

Watch the video with Janice Fraser and Jesse James Garret

June 22, 2005 David Weinberger: "Janice Fraser and Jesse James Garret on designing apps in the new open and "feature-stingy" world of apps." Watch the video with Janice Fraser and Jesse James Garret.


Alan Ganek & Chris Noble, IBM Autonomic Computing

Watch the full interview with Alan Ganek and Chris Noble

June 22, 2005 David Weinberger: "Alan Ganek of IBM and customer Chris Noble talk about IBM's program for managing highly complex work/computing environments." Watch the full interview with Alan Ganek and Chris Noble (17:16 minutes)


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Andrew McLaughlin, Google's policy guy

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June 22, 2005 David Weinberger: "Google's response to the world's varying laws on "permissible" content, with a special focus on S. Korea." Watch the video of Andrew McLaughlin.


Ross Mayfield, CEO, SocialText

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June 22, 2005 David Weinberger: "Ross is CEO of SocialText, a company that makes the sort of social software tools Amy discusses. He begs to differ." Watch the video of Ross Mayfield.


Amy Wohl, Writer and industry analyst

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June 22, 2005 David Weinberger: "Writer and industry analyst Amy Wohl wonders whether collaborative software will stand on its own or be embedded in (and disappear into ) larger apps." Watch the video of Amy Wohl.


Rohit Khare & Tantek Çelik, CommerceNet and Microformats

Watch the full interview with Rohit Khare & Tantek Çelik

June 22, 2005 David Weinberger: "Microformats.org just launched to support the creation and propagation of quick and not-so-dirty ways for web pages to express some common types of data--e.g., people, events--to make the Web smarter." Watch the full interview with Rohit Khare & Tantek Çelik (22:21 minutes)

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Hossein Eslambolchi, AT&T

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June 22, 2005 David Weinberger: "He makes the case for putting "smarts" into the network, arguing against the end-to-end "bigots." He also talks about the importance of Wimax."

Watch the full interview of Hossein Eslambolchi (23:22 minutes)



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Jonathan Schwartz, president, Sun Microsystems

Watch the Jonathan Schwartz video

June 21, 2005 David Weinberger: "We caught Jonathan Schwartz, president of Sun Microsystems, immediately after his talk at Supernova. He says that we're moving from the Information Age to the Participation Age. Since the Net has been participatory - at least when it comes to content - from the beginning, I try to find out what exactly marks the beginning of the new age. We also talk about whether business leaders really have to blog." Watch the full interview of Jonathan Schwartz (11:33 minutes)
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Mena Trott, Six Apart

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June 22, 2005 David Weinberger: "Mena Trott, co-founder and president of Six Apart (the Movable Type and TypePad folks), talks about why bloggers don't give LiveJournal its due, and how writing in that environment changes her content and style. She also talks about integrating into Movable Type and TypePad some of the social networking aspects of LJ." Watch the video of Mena Trott.


Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief, Wired magazine

Watch the Roert Scoble video

June 21, 2005 David Weinberger: "Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired is writing a book on The Long Tail, that is, the millions of bloggers who are writing for relatively small readerships--but, when taken together, are writing for a big honking readership. I ask him how marketers are misunderstanding the concept of the long tail." Watch the video of Chris Anderson.


Robert Scoble, blogger, Microsoft

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June 21, 2005 David Weinberger: "Robert Scoble, Microsoft's uber-blogger, talks about whether everyone really should blog, why Bill Gates doesn't, and whether we should expect other people to have read our blog posts." Watch the video of Robert Scoble.


Scott Kirsner, columnist, Boston Globe

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June 21, 2005 David Weinberger: "Scott Kirsner may be a new blogger, but he's well-established in the print world as a columnist for The Boston Globe and a contributing editor to Wired and Red Herring. Now he's working on a book about how tech is changing Hollywood." Watch the video of Scott Kirsner.


John Patrick, founder, Attitude, LLC

Watch the Peter Quintas video

June 21, 2005 David Weinberger: "John Patrick spent decades at IBM, retiring a couple of years ago as VP of Internet Technology. He thinks "blogging is underestimated" (!) and talks about sensors posting to blogs." Watch the video of John Patrick.


Lili Cheng, director, Windows User Experience and Research, Microsoft

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June 21, 2005 David Weinberger: "Lili Cheng recently moved from Microsoft Research to become Director of the Windows User Experience and Research: She's in charge of the Windows and Longhorn UI. Yikes. We talk about how her work at Microsoft Research on social tools for social networks will affect Windows." Watch the video of Lili Cheng.


Peter Quintas, CTO, SolidSpace

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June 21, 2005 David Weinberger: "I ask Peter Quintas of SolidSpace whether blogs written within the corporate firewall are as funny as ones written outside the firewall. We also talk about whether rich media blogging is going to be as easy as text blogging." Watch the video of Peter Quintas.


Trust thy Internet neighbor

As more people use the Net for blogs and socializing, proving who you are--or at least establishing credibility--will be key.
June 21, 2005, 4:59 PM PT


Wikis, Weblogs and RSS: What Does the New Internet Mean for Business?

Knowledge@Wharton - June 15, 2005 issue The Internet is entering a new phase that will decentralize control within companies, enable employees to collaborate more easily, and drive efficiency. But corporations that want to use the web strategically to build corporate value will not just need to make radical cultural changes, they may also need to master a new vocabulary with terms such as Wikis, Weblogs, and RSS. What will this new Internet mean for business? Wharton legal studies and business ethics professor Kevin Werbach discussed this issue with three experts who will be speaking at the Supernova 2005 conference in San Francisco later this month.

Welcome to Blogcasting!

Link to blogcast welcome

June 13, 2005 Jump into the video blogging stream of the Supernova Conference about doing business in a decentralized world, June 20-22, 2005. Listen to streams of the sessions and join David Weinberger as he video blogs interviews with the speakers and attendees. The conference blog will be supplemented by the blogcast, short video streams capturing a different take on the event.

Watch a brief introduction and invitation to the Blogcast from David Weinberger. Note: the conference video will be captured at a larger size and quality.

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