More High Bit Orders - Live Blogging @ Web 2.0 Summit

Naill Kennedy organized the Widget Summit this year came to talk to us about widgets. He went over some technologies such as XML, JSON, and RSS. Naill also showed some Advertising Mashups with Nissan and Google Maps. There is no one major widget  provider. Google, NetVibes (personal homepages), Yahoo, MSN, Vista, Mac, blog sidebars, etc.. Now there are also Mobile widgets. This is where I can see widgets taking a big leap.

Bill Tancer from Hitwise talked to about Predictive Power of Web 2.0 Data. He went over the “Rogers Adoption Curve”. Today with Web 2.0 the adoption curve has been massively shortened. Hitwise can pinpoint what early adopters are doing on the web and predict which site are going to become hot and which are not. You can learn more on www.ilovedata.com.

Jeff Huber, the SVP of Engineering from Google, talked about the programable web. He focused on Gadgets. Since January, 2006 there are over 20,000 gadgets that are in the Google Ecosystem and spread over 100,000 sites. He stated what RSS has done for Content, Gadgets are doing for applications. It’s the aggregation of application. The top 125 total Google Gadgets are 50% of all gadget Traffic.

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