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while O’Reilly’s web 2.0 summit is almost over, PodTech’s John Furrier published a bootlegged video of Eric Schmidt’s keynote given on tuesday:

An overflow crowd waits for the Eric Schmidt Web 2.0 keynote. At $3,500 per conference attendee, and a full plate of sponsors, it looks like they made some serious bank. Speaking of bank, the Google CEO denies rumors of $500 million legal reserve for YouTube, and states that Google will never trap user data.

Michael Arrington gave a comprehensive summary of Launch Pad, the kick-off event giving 13 startups the chance to demo their products to an high-profile audience. contestants included companies like sphere, omnidrive and oDesk.

despite not participating in the summit itself, Riya (formerly known for their face-recognizing image-search engine) managed to do the most-covered product-launch this week: like.com utilizes their technology to find products (currently limited to jewelry, shoes, handbags and watches) based on visual similarity. coverage all over the place.

and finally there’s an interesting sum-up of a talk between John Batelle and Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie on Read/Write Web.

update: Redeye VC links to Mary Meeker’s presentation on the “state of the internet” - 41 slides incredibly stuffed with numbers & stats on business-development on the net.

a very honorable mention goes to Lou Reed, who has been performing on yesterdays post-dinner party, sponsored by AOL (via Webware). bubbly, anyone? …update: here’s the video!

I just discovered O’Reilly Code Search (Beta), a search engine indexing all the sample code of more than 700 books published by O’Reilly (that’s about 2.6mio lines-of-code :)). snippets are annoted and linked with similar code from other books - a great resource for those owning an O’Reilly-collection worth several metres of shelfspace.

O’Reilly Digital Media published an elaborate feature on music recommendation service Pandora, including an interview with chief technical officer Tom Conrad. the article explains how the Music Genome Project - Pandora’s underlying recommendation engine - works and how new incoming music is analysed and categorized by 40 professional musicians. on the technical side, Conrad gives insight on Pandora’s software-architecture (J2EE, OpenLaszlo, PostgreSQL) and how it scales up to 2.5mio registered listeners.

thinkvitman.com just released an audio-interview with Tim O’Reilly, who created a humongous business based on conferences and books on opensource software. I guess there is no geek out there, who doesn’t own at least one of the books sporting animal cover-artwork published by O’Reilly. O’Reilly Media got bad press recently for claiming trademark of the term ‘web 2.0′ when used in conjunction with tech-conferences. other topics covered in the interview: the where 2.0 conference, Second Life & virtual worlds, people not getting the ‘web 2.0′-meme, the current climate tech-startups are launching in and the possibility of another bubble to burst.

hint: thinkvitamin doesn’t offer a seperate RSS-feed for the podcast, but it’s ok to use their main-news-feed with most podcatchers. for iTunes, just choose “Advanced” - “Subscribe to Podcast” and copy&paste this URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/vitaminmasterfeed - the news-items not including audio are simply ignored.