Web2Expo Keynote takeaways

Web 2.0’s first keynote session on Wednesday brought together Tim O’Reilly of O’Reilly Media, John Maeda, President of RISN, Stephen Elop of Microsoft and Mark Carges of eBay.

With a key theme being the web as a platform, speakers made their cases for:

• Harnessing collective intelligence (O’Reilly)
• The trend toward the power of less, including building a simple system and letting it evolve (O’Reilly)

 

•   The complexity of simplicity (Maeda)

 

•   The need to continue to innovate and uphold productivity (Elop)

 

•   Importance of developing technology beyond the Internet (Carges) 
• Creating technology that adapts to people’s lives (Carges) 

More from Web2Expo to come!

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