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title: "Web 2.0 Conference Introduction"
date: 2005-10-05
author: "Richard MacManus"
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  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
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  - name: "2005"
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# Web 2.0 Conference Introduction

Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle are on stage now with the formal intro. Great setting, two big screens on both sides of the main stage – which is a nice emerald green design with huge golden lights above. Big crowd (of course). It’s been a hectic day and a lot of (literal) buzz around.

Tim and John talk about “innovation in display” and assembly; a lot of companies will show that here. The conference will show what companies are doing with the web platform, talking to a lot of platform leaders. Issues that will be addressed: open vs closed, data models, future of entertainment, young users just coming to the platform.

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/web_20_conferen_3.php))*