This post isn’t really a set of notes. I was working during the keynotes with only one ear open to the talks. My ears perked up now and again during Tim O’Reilly’s talks. Here are little decontextualized nuggets that caught my attention:

• Tim uses the term “information shadows,” to refer to the unique identifiers and metadata around things in the world. The virtual side of Bruce Sterling’s “splimes.”
• Owning a namespace (@nagutron) is super powerful. Interesting that this convention actually came from the users. Contrast to the long facebook profile URL with id string; people don’t really feel like they own those.
• Clever bit of data harvesting: Power spikes when appliances start up have signatures that can actually identify make and model (AMEE, power monitoring startup in UK, discovered this.)
• “Antigenic cartography” is the term for 2d and 3d visualizations of genetic traits of related organisms. Used for flu virus mutation drift tracking.
• We are beginning to develop a “planetary skin” of sensor data. Tracking every bit of the planet’s health and human behavior. It’s still low-res, but just the beginning. Web 2.0 + World = “Web Squared”
• The Power of Less – Moore’s Law applied to world problems. Change the mindset to exponentially increasing efficiency.
• Gov 2.0 Summit

Related Posts:

• Yellow Dots of Mystery (October, 2008)
• IBM: Genes Off-Limits (October, 2005)
• Web2.0 Notes: Surfacing Personal Information (April, 2008)
• Web2.0 Notes: Designing APIs (April, 2008)
• William Kankwamba, Malawi Maker (July, 2007)

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