Nicole Ferraro reported on conference highlights:

Vysr Beats Yahoo to the Punch With RoamAbout

What’s Next for Social Platforms?

Tim O’Reilly: Web 2.0 Is Not Over

Yahoo: Social Is Dimension, Not Destination
MySpace Talks Apps & Facebook (But Not Yahoo)

Fake Steve Jobs Invades Web 2.0 Expo

Searching for the Next Search Engine

Slideshow: Web 2.0 Expo

Juan Carlos Perez reports on Expo, starting with the great opening line:

D. Mark Hornung is attending this week’s Web 2.0 Expo because he doesn’t want to get hit by a tsunami.

Web 2.0 Expo earned world wide coverage. Here’s what Jan Becker wrote for German readers

The News Blaze crew covered many of the major events and announcements at Web 2.0 Expo SF.

Bernardo Parrella reports on the conference: Prosegue l’abbraccio tra socialit� online e mondo high-tech, mentre al Web 2.0 Expo di San Francisco Tim O’Reilly mette in guardia contro il “lato oscuro” della Rete…

Mathieu Ramage shares his take on the conference for French readers.

Caroline McCarthy contrasts the revelry of Web Expo parties with the more cautious tone of the conference itself in this post:

The economic attitude of the Web 2.0 Expo hangs in an awkward limbo: The tech industry relies on innovation, but no one can deny that these economic times demand caution. What’s a geek to do?

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Mitch Wagner, on FriendFeed:

So I took a break from Web 2.0 Expo to get some alone time with my laptop and FriendFeed. Yes, I am aware of the irony: I have traveled all this way to a conference saturated with social networks, and I left the conference to connect with a social network.

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Deborah Gage and Ellen Lee look at another side of Web 2.0.

Yardena Arar highlights the coolest startups, innovators and exhibitors on the Expo show floor:

The Web 2.0 Expo at San Francisco’s Moscone Center West, which wraps up today, doesn’t take up a huge amount of space: Startups predominate, and most don’t have money for big flashy booths. But there’s more cool new technology per square foot here than at many big trade shows.

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Leslie Katz rounds up the highlights, launches and green innovation at Web Expo.

It was all Web apps, all the time in San Francisco this week, as some of the Internet’s most prominent movers and shakers gathered for the giant Web 2.0 Expo.

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“The economic attitude of the Web 2.0 Expo hangs in an awkward limbo: The tech industry relies on innovation, but no one can deny that these economic times demand caution. What’s a geek to do?” writes CNet News.com’s Caroline McCarthy in this article on the economy, Web 2.0 & Web 2.0 Expo.

Dan Beyers discusses the various lauches by Intridea at Web 2.0 Expo:

Upender, the chief executive of Intridea, said the speed of development today forces the company to rapidly launch and improve products.

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George Shirk writes, “Among the various engines driving the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco - and arguably it is the biggest engine - is the attention on all things mobile.”
Shirk continues,

Indeed, on Thursday the conference featured a number of “focus tracks” specifically dealing with mobile. Developers and content specialists crowded in, hoping for clues as to what “Mobile 2.0” will look like.

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Susan Kuchinskas covers Artur Bergman’s presentation at Web 2.0 Expo: Tips for startups work for any Internet business.

Over on the Bay Area’s News Station, Brian Shields was very busy at Web 2.0 Expo, shooting over 17 interviews, including this overview with Jen Pahlka:

and this interview with George LeBrun and Joshua Ross, the O’Reilly InPractice team that launched at Web 2.0 Expo:

Everyday new applications and ideas come out that expand the way we’re all able to use the Internet. KRON4.com is giving you a peek inside the future of the web courtesy of some of the innovators and visionaries who attended the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco in April, 2008. Watch the videos, follow the links, and share your thoughts on the Internet’s Next Big Thing.

Check out video of Jennifer Pahlka, General Manager and co-chair of the Web 2.0 Expo and TechWeb, who sat down with Liane to talk about the community-driven content and events.

Jennifer Pahlka On Web 2.0 Expo’s Community Driven Content - Girls Gone Geek from Girls Gone Geek on Vimeo.

Liane also spoke with TechWeb’s VP of Marketing, Stacy O’Connell about the active community that is Web 2.0 Expo.

Web 2.0 Expo Is An Active Community - Girls Gone Geek from Girls Gone Geek on Vimeo.

Fritz Nelson, Executive Producer at TechWeb, talks with Tim O’Reilly at the Web 2.0 Expo 2008 in San Francisco about the corporate and IT uses of Web 2.0.

More TechWebTV episodes from Web 2.0 Expo.

Fritz Nelson, Executive Producer at TechWeb, talks with Tim O’Reilly at the Web 2.0 Expo 2008 in San Francisco about the corporate and IT uses of Web 2.0.

Ari Balogh, CTO at Yahoo! just offered a preview at Web 2.0 Expo of a very new kind of Yahoo!. One that invites developers to take advantage of our huge scale to write applications that build on our existing properties (think Mail, Sports, Search, our front page, mobile, My Yahoo!, etc.), tap into millions of loyal users, and make Internet experience more relevant and useful.