Tim O’Reilly makes a persuasive case for why venture capital is starting to...
Tim O’Reilly has a financial incentive to pooh-pooh the traditional VC model, wherein investors gamble on nascent startups in hopes of seeing many times their money back. Bryce Roberts, who is...
View ArticleAs concerns rise over forest carbon offsets, Pachama’s verified offset...
Restoring and preserving the world’s forests has long been considered one of the easiest, lowest-cost and simplest ways to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. It’s by far the most...
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Gov 2.0: It's All About The Platform
Editor's note: The following guest post is by Tim O'Reilly, the founder and CEO of computer book publisher O'Reilly Media and a conference organizer. O'Reilly coined the term Web 2.0 five years ago....
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Tweeting About The Gov 2.0 Summit May Cause Serious Account Suspension
In an ironic twist of fate, a number of people related to O'Reilly Media, as well as others guilty of using Twitter to express thoughts and commentary about and from the Gov 2.0 Summit, have found...
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TC50 Backstage: Well, Tell us How you REALLY Feel, Tim O'Reilly
Conference organizer, publisher and investor Tim O'Reilly doesn't mince words. In this video he talks candidly about what he hated at TechCrunch50 today, what he loved and what excites him about the...
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Memo to Start-ups: You’re Supposed to Be Changing the World, Remember?
I did interviews with most of the TechCrunch50 experts backstage and there was a common gripe about the companies launching there: Not enough passion, not enough swinging for the fences, not enough...
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The Open Gov Initiative: Enabling Techies to Solve Government Problems
While grandma flips through photo albums on her sleek iPad, government agencies (and most corporations) process mission-critical transactions on cumbersome web-based front ends that function by...
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Who Is More Trust-Worthy with Our Data: The Government or Big Companies? (TCTV)
We invited Reid Hoffman and Tim O'Reilly -- two of the biggest thinkers in the Valley-- into the studio to talk about what Hoffman calls "Web 3.0." He argues the next wave isn't as simple as MOBILE!...
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Letting Go: How Sharing Your Data Can Transform Your Life (TCTV)
It's time for the much-awaited part two of our sit down with Internet big-thinkers Reid Hoffman and Tim O'Reilly. We invited the two in the studio last week to talk about what Hoffman has called "Web...
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So Is Web 3.0 Already Here? (TCTV)
Last week, we invited big-thinkers Reid Hoffman and Tim O'Reilly into the TechCrunch Studios to talk about Hoffman's definition of "Web 3.0"-- a torrent of innovation that's going to be unleashed by...
View ArticleWatch The 2011 Web 2.0 Summit Day Two Live
We’re at the Palace Hotel for day two of for the 2011 Web 2.0 Summit, where the lineup for the next three days consists of almost everyone on the entire Internet. The. entire. Internet. In case you...
View ArticleWhere The Free Software Movement Went Wrong (And How To Fix It)
The biggest change I've seen in the tech industry in the past decade isn't social media, cloud computing, big data, consumerization or even mobile. It's the mainstream acceptance of open source. Even...
View ArticleTim O’Reilly thinks focusing less on shareholders just might save the world
There's no shortage of angst in Silicon Valley. Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media and author of a new book, "WTF: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us," thinks a lot of problems could...
View ArticleThis could be AI’s light bulb moment
In the 19th century, electricity was the primary technology that was driving innovation, but it wasn’t until it was practically applied with inventions like the light bulb and the telephone that it...
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