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"Steve, what's the next hot online community?" It seems as though everybody is on the lookout for the successor to MySpace, Twitter or Facebook. Nobody, even in a difficult economic climate, wants to be viewed as a latecomer. Perhaps as a defense mechanism to avoid being wrong myself, I now give a boilerplate answer that I believe can last. In short, the next big community is not a single destination. Rather, it is going to be everywhere. To paraphrase Forrester analyst Charlene Li, social networking is becoming "like air."

The problem, however, is that this model can't scale. Tastes change and people are always migrating to trendier sites-especially as their friends do. As a result, the Internet amber is littered with fossilized communities that once dominated. These former stalwarts include AOL, Angelfire, TheGlobe.com, GeoCities and Tripod.

Community today is a different animal. People now expect it to be part of virtually every online experience. Most media companies now allow users to leave comments or even create profiles. Hundreds of thousands of brands, NGOs and individuals have set up their own social networks on Ning.com. The entire web is going social.

At the O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference, we expose the tools pushing the boundaries of the location frontier, track the emergence of new business models and services, and spend time examining new sources of data and the platforms for collecting them. New to Where 2.0 2008 will be a full day of in-depth tutorials on the best and the latest so that participants can return to their projects with new tools in hand.

Disruption & Opportunity The Web 2.0 Summit focuses on emerging business and technology developments that utilize the Web as a platform and defines how the Web will drive business in the future. Now that the Web has become a robust platform with countless innovations driving its ongoing development, widespread disruptions in traditional business models are well underway. But within the chaos of disruption lies the seeds of opportunity. We'll focus on the startups and financiers tending those seeds, of course - including the second annual Launch Pad. But we'll also highlight how the incumbents are also taking advantage of disruption, or, at the very least, how they are responding to it so as to protect their market positions. Read more.

combines the functionalities of a database system and a wiki web application

those who are the experts of the nature of the data they handle

should be able to create and evolve their database model

On ne veut plus des “pourquoi vous n’êtes pas politisés ?”

Nous sommes  moins optimistes que vous au même âge, car nous savons que nous aurons moins que vous, qu’il n’y a pas à conquérir. Nous savons que nous entamons la longue liste des matches en trop sur un front purement économique.

on a commencé comme stagiaire, on a été trop diplômé pour le poste, ou manquant d’expérience, on nous embauche pour remplacer certaines fonctions sans en recevoir le salaire, alors donner aveuglément notre loyauté, il ne faut pas rêver non plus. Nous sommes la génération du chômage de masse, des plans sociaux et des conflits où il y a un peu à préserver, rien à gagner. Arrêtons les discours faussement paternalistes sur l’accomplissement de soi en entreprise : une société fait du business pas de la philanthropie.

not an attempt to create a google killer

model how to link information together at the most basic level

it's premature to judge the engine