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Web 2.0 Dinner and Schmoozefest

by Kara Swisher
Posted on July 18, 2007 at 1:27 AM PT

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I went to a dinner last night hosted by John Battelle and Tim O’Reilly of the Web 2.0 Summit, and it was one of the more schmoozy events I have been to in a while.

The event–this year at Foreign Cinema in the Mission District of San Francisco–is held to elicit feedback from the Internet’s movers and shakers about the new directions the conference, set to take place in San Francisco in mid-October, should head in.

Except Battelle and O’Reilly already came up with a theme: “The Web’s Edge.”

I am not entirely sure what that means. Is it that it is at an edge? Or that we need to look at the edge? Or just that things just feel all pointy lately? Big thoughts all!

In any case, the party was a lot of fun and filled with digital personalities, like Mitch Kapor and Ann Winblad, as well as a few folks I interviewed like ex-AOLer Jon Miller, ex-Fox exec Ross Levinsohn, VC David Sze, Tina Sharkey of BabyCenter and Webby Awards founder Tiffany Shlain.

Here’s the video:

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  • I think that All Things D should start a jargon list for those of us not up to speed and living on the west coast. Nothing like using last week's jargon in a sales meeting only to be laughed at.

    This conference surely had a ton of jargon to start the list...beginning with "the Web's Edge" whatever that is. (Do you fall off it if you don't attend an O'Reilly event?)
  • Excellent idea!
    To begin:

    The Web's Edge: The place lame dotcoms sail off and are never heard from again.
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Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference. Read more »

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