The Vicarious Web 2.0 Conference: Day One

• Sean Bonner's Web 2.0 Launching - 13 new companies are launching Web 2.0 related products at the show and there's a session dedicated just to this event. While not actually telling us anything about the "lucky" products, he promises notes once it's over! Keep checking...
• Michael Arrington at TechCrunch just released More Details on Attention Trust (aka ATX) apparently posted from directly from inside from the conference. ATX is a Firefox extension that monitors and tracks your clickstream. The data can be shared with any number of trusted parties and becomes very valuable with aggregated with others. Read the post for more details.
  
• Ian Davis just posted some notes about his attendance experience today and he's saying some of the sessions are quite full. He posted from the floor of the Open Source Infrastructure Session where he notes that blogs often suffer from scaling issues and are representative of a "number of underlying scaling problems with Web 2.0 applications which are by nature Internet Scale." He also notes that Yahoo has been acquiring companies that are suffering from the scaling problems of their own success.
• In some of the most detailed coverage yet, the inestimable Dare Obesanjo sat in on the same session and had lots to say in his Web 2.0 Conference Trip Report: Open Source Infrastructure. He actually stepped up during the session and asked three questions which he enumerates in detail in a post so extensive that's hard to believe he found the time while at the conference. He's also reporting that some sessions are so full you can't even get in. Best Quote: "Currently microformats seem to be going fine since Tantek is the main guy creating them but what happens when others start creating them and unlike XML which has namespaces there is no way to disambiguate them?"
• O'Reilly's Nathan Torkington posted about spending "a fun hour with Sam Schillace of Writely." He observes this is one of the first Web 2.0 successes involved .NET. He also notes that Writely is a three person team at its core and come from a desktop app background. Nathan has some good stuff here including "look at successful companies like Flickr and 37signals--there's someone in those companies who's as worried about the user on the front-end as the other people are worried about the servers on the back-end. I'm tempted to generalize and say that behind every successful Web 2.0 company there'll be someone who understands the user."
• Berlind's and Farber's ZDNet blog has several posts from the Web 2.0 conference already(!). The latest is entitled Nick Carr on the amorality of Web 2.0, where Nick essentially claims that hypsters and hucksters might be ruining its image and that it's primarily a technological movement not a social phenomenon. Surely many will disagree and say it's a combination but the discussion will certainly be fascinating. Also check out Web 2.0, Looking for New Ideas in Search.
  
• Richard MacManus at Read/Write Web has posted some excellent event streams from the conference as is typical of his excellent Web 2.0 coverage in general. Be certain to read his two posts from the conference today: Web 2.0 Conference: Yahoo - What's New in the Search Ecosystem: Users, Publishers, and Advertisers, Web 2.0 Conference: Ad Models: A New Approach to Marketing?.
• Web 2.0 venture capital investor Alex Muse has made a heroic number of posts from the conference already. To see what he's been doing there so far, take a look at his latest posts here: Applications 2.0 Workshop Overview, the Web 2.0 Workshop, and the Open Source Infrastructure Workshop, (OSIW is the most posted about session so far).
• Just In: The WSFinder blog is doing some very cool high-intensity, microcontent style blog posts from the conference, worth checking into periodically.
• New: Jonathan Boutelle is also posting frequently from the conference and has news from various sessions including the ever popular Open Source Infrastructure Workshop but also the Ajax Workshop.
• Update: MacManus updated his Web 2.0 Explorer blog at ZDNet with first day impressions of the conference.
• Update: Ed Costello posted his first day attendance notes on his blog here.
• Print Media: The big media has coverage starting to come out including, Publish magazine's Web 2.0 is a call to action, BusinessWeek's Froth Central at Web 2.0, WebPro News with Web 2.0 to Birth News Companies, ITworld's Web 2.0 spotlights risk, opportunities on the Internet, a some particularly good coverage by ZDNet: Microsoft 2.0: Combining Software and Services which describes a very interesting session with O'Reilly grilling Microsoft execs and Interactive Media Mogul Barry Diller at Web 2.0. The Linux and Open Source news site, NewsForge just posted an pretty extensive article from the conference titled Web 2.0 Conference: Open Source Everywhere.
  
• Update: Venture capital investor Jeff Clavier posts his notes from Wednesday's VC2 2.0 Panel.
• More: A blog post about Final Thoughts, Day one that claims O'Reilly admitted as much that a second bubble may be forming.
  
• Update: Matt Cutts about quotes from him at a Web 2.0 panel that were made by Red Herring.
• Update: Jeff Jarvis writes a detailed post about the Web 2.0 tagging session at the conference which was picked up as a headliner by tech.memeorandum.
  
• Update: Rich Sharples over at Sun blogs posted about a demo of Zimbra yesterday and he says it's the best Ajax application that he's ever seen, though he questions whether at some level it should even be done.
• Penultimate Update: Frederico Oliveira wrote a pretty good wrap-up of yesterday and how good the workshops were and also listed more resources for those who can't attend.
  

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