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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]