Wednesday’s Grand Event - PT 2 - Live Blogging @ The Web 2.0 Summit

Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle opened up to with an overview of the whole conference. These two definitely have done this before. They work well together. They really spiked my interest in the rest of the week.

Next is a conversation with Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook. Mark was actually pretty funny. He came out in flip flop (a yuck for me, but when you are worth billions, what can i say), while the stuffy crowd slowly loosened their ties. Mark is not focusing on revenue, financing, and other business issues. When you are one of the webs darlings, it just comes easy.

Mark talked about the social graph that Facebook has created and how application that are being created to use the Facebook applications can use it. Facebook has become a huge platform recently for start up businesses. I semi have issues with these applications. Though some are great, If I get another “Vampire Bite” or get “Slapped” by someone else, I may start cutting people off. I use Facebook to find and keep in touch with old friends. It is slowly turning into an annoying spam engine. The one good thing is that is not sending me annoying emails all the time.

Mark kept saying “We’ll talk about this in 3 months” when asked about a Facebook Ad Network, I believe Facebook is going to be teaming up with Microsoft. This will be great for targeting people with ads that matter. Though I won’t be effected. I use AdBlock.

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