---
title: "In San Francisco"
date: 2005-10-02
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2005"
    url: "/tag/2005.md"
---

# In San Francisco

I arrived in San Francisco yesterday, in preparation for the Web 2.0 Conference next week. I’m spending two weeks in Silicon Valley, kindly hosted by [TechCrunch](https://web.archive.org/web/20060508062927/http://www.techcrunch.com/)‘s Mike Arrington, Keith Teare and [Frederico Oliveira](https://web.archive.org/web/20060508062927/http://webreakstuff.com/). They’re having a great time with my accent (“yeeeeeaa”). I’m having a great time in general and looking forward to the conference!

While I was on the plane, and after that recovering from jetlag, a whole slew of Web 2.0 articles came out. I have a lot of reading to catch up on! You can see the latest in [tech.memeorandum](https://web.archive.org/web/20060508062927/http://tech.memeorandum.com/), but here are some of the Web 2.0 posts that caught my eye…

Tim O’Reilly published a must-read article entitled [What Is Web 2.0](https://web.archive.org/web/20060508062927/http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/6228) – Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software. He also published [a campact definition](https://web.archive.org/web/20060508062927/http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/10/web_20_compact_definition.html) and [got profiled in Wired magazine](https://web.archive.org/web/20060508062927/http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.10/oreilly.html). Barb Dybwad has a well-thought out post entitled [Approaching a definition of Web 2.0](https://web.archive.org/web/20060508062927/http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000170061010/). Dion Hinchcliffe has a [good round-up](https://web.archive.org/web/20060508062927/http://web2.wsj2.com/web2highconceptlowimpendance.htm) of recent Web 2.0 blogging activity. Chris Anderson wrote a bit on the [difficulties of defining Web 2.0](https://web.archive.org/web/20060508062927/http://www.thelongtail.com/the_long_tail/2005/10/web_20_and_the_.html) (tell me about it!). Dave Winer has an [interesting counterpoint](https://web.archive.org/web/20060508062927/http://archive.scripting.com/2005/10/01#When:10:50:14PM) to the Web 2.0 meme.

All of those posts are well worth reading and digesting before the conference. I’ll be blogging a lot next week, so stay tuned. In the meantime, I’ll be exploring Silicon Valley – the home of the Web.

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/in_san_francisc.php))*