Dylan Hunter

For anyone who’s not keeping a close eye on the O’Reilly Radar, (and if you’re not, you should be! ) looks like they’re looking for speakers for their Web 2.0 Expo in April ‘07. Given the tracks suggested, looks like they’ll be talking about just about everything, so am sure it’ll be an excellent conference for both speakers and attendees!

Tracks:
- Strategy & Business Models
- Marketing & Community
- Design & UI
- Web 2.0 Fundamentals
- Web 2.0 Services & Platforms
- Workshops

More here.

Now here’s hoping that the registration costs will be something we normal humans can afford, (am sure an Un-conference it is not! )

I knew I should have gone to this session from Alexis @ Reddit, (hey, he definitely earned the linklove on that one!) - but I think he stole my material!

Just checked out Jobby after reading about on TechCrunch, and darned if Michael wasn’t dead on - the interface, (with a slight glitch on the “user experience” tag for some reason) is definitely awesome, (heck, almost turns looking for a job into a video game! ). Will definitely have to keep in mind going forward.

Would be really cool if, as it grows, live jobs appeared in a right pane or something in order of best match to their tag clouds, as well, (now that _would be_ a video game! ).

And for a viral piece, since recruiters care often care most about what others say about you, how about throwing in a little LinkedIn endorsement kind of thing, on-the-fly weighted by the skill of the endorser for the given tag, (i.e. for “Product Mktg” or “Ruby on Rails,” etc., you would get further gooses for the number of people who endorsed your skill on those tags if they also had high skill / endorsements for theirs, moderate for moderate scores, low for low - yep, peer review / Backrub / Google for jobs! ). Also should help out a bit in differentiating the 4000 people that’ll all come up with Advanced on tags A, B & G, which are most important for a given job.

Six Apart, the creator of social networking site LiveJournal and maker of blogging applications like Moveable Type, just snagged $12 million in a private round of funding from three firms, sources said last week. The series C round, rumored to include Intel, catapults San Francisco-based Six Apart into the thick of an emerging area of Web-focused investments that go far beyond search-related companies. But so far, public market access to that new industry-comprising companies that house content media properties as well as content tool makers-has been nonexistent.

….In any event, these new blended companies are becoming the talk of the media investment world. "Blogging and social networking are coming together," says one source familiar with companies in the new industry. "We’re coming out of the tech bubble doldrums and the next generation of media is online [content-driven companies]."

In the recent past, online search has been the star of Web-focused investing, but that’s rapidly changing as investors consider what happens after users conduct a search on Google or Yahoo. Typically, they then click on the links retrieved and move on to other sites, which are chockablock with content–the new "it" zone for advertisers.

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Suggested over @ Ajaxian as a good resource for Ajax tutorials, etc. Not going to dive into too much now, (concepts first, Man, concepts first! ) but good to keep in the “to check into later” pile, (anyone ever notice things go onto that pile and never seem to come out? ).

You’ve seen the logo page elsewhere, but liked this one with the list of who the companies are, (though still can’t believe Alexa is included… )

A nice primer from Tim O’Reilly on what Web 2.0 is, (at least in concept). Honestly, my favorite part is their "meme map":

A very cute tongue-in-cheek look at interface design for all of us who are hopefully building out sites to make us all ludicrously wealthy, (or, in my case, still digesting the stupid Ruby books - nice language, Rails looks to be an excellent framework, but still would prefer that magic code wand! ).