Web 2.0 Heroes: Interviews with 20 Web 2.0 Influencers

Bradley L. Jones

John Wiley & Sons, Mar 31, 2008 - Computers - 288 pages

Web 2.0 may be an elusive concept, but one thing is certain: using the Web as merely a means of retrieving and displaying information is history. Today?s Web is immediate, interactive, innovative. It is user-controlled and community-driven. Organizations, marketers, application developers, and communicators must be ready to respond and to innovate or be left behind, and the experts featured on these pages are leading the charge. Their ideas are fresh, sometimes experimental, necessarily flexible, and always on the leading edge to prepare you for a Web where users rule.

Contents

• Interviews with 20 Web 20 Influencers Chapter 1 Max Mancini eBay: 1
• Interviews with 20 Web 20 Influencers Chapter 2 Alan Meckler Internetcom: 15
• Interviews with 20 Web 20 Influencers Chapter 3 Eric Engleman Bloglines: 29
• Interviews with 20 Web 20 Influencers Chapter 4 Gina Bianchini Ning: 45
• Interviews with 20 Web 20 Influencers Chapter 5 Dorion Carroll Technorati: 55
• Interviews with 20 Web 20 Influencers Chapter 6 Raju Vegesna Zoho: 79
• Interviews with 20 Web 20 Influencers Chapter 7 Richard MacManus ReadWriteWeb Web 20 Workgroup: 91
• Interviews with 20 Web 20 Influencers Chapter 8 TJ Kang ThinkFree: 101
• Interviews with 20 Web 20 Influencers Chapter 9 Patrick Crane LinkedIn: 117
• Interviews with 20 Web 20 Influencers Chapter 10 Shaun Walker DotNetNuke: 135
• Interviews with 20 Web 20 Influencers Chapter 11 Biz Stone Twitter: 145
• Interviews with 20 Web 20 Influencers Chapter 12 Seth Sternberg Meebo: 155
• Interviews with 20 Web 20 Influencers Chapter 13 Joshua Schachter delicio us: 169
• Interviews with 20 Web 20 Influencers Chapter 14 Ranjith Kumaran YouSendIt: 177
• Interviews with 20 Web 20 Influencers Chapter 15 Garrett Camp StumbleUpon: 189
• Interviews with 20 Web 20 Influencers Chapter 16 Rodrigo Madanes Skype: 199
• Interviews with 20 Web 20 Influencers Chapter 17 Rod Smith IBM Corporation: 209
• Interviews with 20 Web 20 Influencers Chapter 18 Tim Harris Microsoft Corporation: 219
• Interviews with 20 Web 20 Influencers Chapter 19 Bob Brewin Tim Bray Sun Microsystems: 229
• Interviews with 20 Web 20 Influencers Chapter 20 Michele Turner Adobe Systems Incorporated: 243
• Interviews with 20 Web 20 Influencers Index: 255

About the author

Bradley L. Jones manages various high-profile sites for Jupitermedia (internet.com) that focus on making technical information easy to understand and easy to learn. He oversees a dozen sites including Developer.com, DevX, Gamelan.com, VBForums, jGuru, and Java Boutique. In addition, he writes a weekly e-newsletter and numerous articles devoted to helping readers understand complex topics. He is an internationally bestselling author with a number of books to his credit, and has been recognized as an influencer in the technical community.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Web 2.0 Heroes: Interviews with 20 Web 2.0 Influencers
• Author: Bradley L. Jones
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2008
• ISBN: 0470378956, 9780470378953
• Length: 288 pages
• Subjects: Computers / Internet / General