News: O'Reilly Media

As we all drown in today's unparalleled access to mostly disorganized information, the holy grail for many has become to perfect search. O'Reilly Media (site) has released a new book to help those following this path.

“You know, do I hope that those people die screaming of rectal cancer? Yeah, you know, but I’m not going to spend a lot of energy on it.” – Sean Penn (when addressing his detractors) No, I’m not making it up, you can even view the video here. O’Reilly, feel free to examine his body language, though to be fair, there isn’t much of a body to work

During 2003-04, O?Reilly Media popularized the term Web 2.0 which is also termed as the social web. Web 2.0 describes a new and potentially disruptive stage in the development and usage of the Internet.

Even though it has been around for a while, most people and online marketers still has doubts about Web 2.0 and how it is busy changing the online business world. Web 2.0 is a powerful term first adopted and made publicly by O'Reilly Media in 2003. They named it as the second generation of the web.

In this third and last part I’ll talk about the New York Times. It seems they can’t agree on the pricing of a subscription of their newspaper on the iPad. I have a little video of a piece of the January keynote which shows how the newspaper would look like on the iPad. And ofcourse the question remains: are people going to buy those books?