This page contains all the resources (i.e., people, websites, and books) that I consider important reading in the Web 2.0 space. The process of accumulating the various content distributed throughout the Yourdon Report might take some time, so please check back occasionally.
Gurus:
Upcoming Conferences
Future of Web Apps (Miami, FL): February 28 – March 1, 2008
The Next Web Conference (Amsterdam, The Netherlands): April 3-4, 2008
Web 2.0 Expo (San Francisco, CA): April 22-25, 2008
Enterprise 2.0 (Boston, MA): June 9-12, 2008:
Web 2.0 Expo (New York, NY): September 2008
Pop!Tech (Camden, ME): October 22-25, 2008
Wikimania (Alexandria, Egypt) 2008
General websites:
Connecting the Dots: Web 2.0 List of Lists
O’Reilly Network: “What is Web 2.0?”
O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Reading List (books)
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog
General books:
Anderson, Chris. The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More. (Hyperion, 2006.)
Battelle, John. The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business, and Transformed our Culture. (Portfolio Hardcover, 2005.)
Benkler, Yochai. The Wealth of Nations: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedoms. (Yale University Press, 2006.)
Ebersbach, Anja, et al. Wiki Web Collaboration. (Springer, 2005.)
Locke, Christopher, et al. The Clue Train Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual. (Perseus Books Group, 2001.)
Nickull, Duane, Dion Hinchcliffe and James Governor. Web 2.0 Design Patterns: What Entrepreneurs and Information Architects Need to Know. (Adobe Developer Library, 2008.)
Tapscott, Don, and Anthony D. Williams. Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything. (Portfolio Hardcover, 2006.)
Weinberger, David. Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder. (Times Books, 2007.)
AJAX websites/books
Crane, David, Eric Pascarello and Darren James. Ajax in Action. (Manning Publications, 2005.)
Gehtland, Justin, Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer. Pragmatic Ajax: A Web 2.0 Primer. (Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2006.)
McLaughlin, Brett. Head Rush Ajax. (O’Reilly Media, 2006.)
Ruby on Rails websites/books
Tate, Bruce, and Curt Gibbs. Ruby on Rails: up and running. (O’Reilly Media, 2006.)
Thomas, Dave, et al. Agile Web Development with Rails: A pragmatic guide. (Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2005.)
Errata
