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Lifehacker's special guest star Jeff Jarvis writes in with a report from O'Reilly's Web 2.0 Conference going on now through October 7th in San Francisco.

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The Next Big Thing

by Jeff Jarvis

Web 2.0 feels so darned 1.0 with almost a thousand geeks, entrepreneurs, moneymen, and moguls wanting to be wowed by the next big thing. Cool is cool again. Some crowd faves, after the jump:

  • Zimbra is an online email and collaboration suite that makes the best use of AJAX I've seen: Get an email from a coworker wanting a meeting, mouse over the words "next Tuesday" and Zimbra will check your calendar and show you your schedule without having to switch aps. Mouse over a FedEx tracking number and it will dynamically go get the latest info. You can search all your messages smartly. From your calendar, you can overlay any of your colleagues' schedules. Any address can, of course, pop up Google Maps. And much more. It's in beta now: hosted or for download. Much lust in the room, including from VCs.
  • Zvents is an entertainment calendar that beats the one from the local paper: It's based on search and you can see listings in lists, in calendars, or, of course, in Google Maps. It's live in San Francisco.
  • Consumating.com tags people. You tag yourself so you can be found by others who tag themselves to find tag love and whatever else you want. Popular tags include freckles, greeneyes, ipod, and, of course, cute. Unpopular tags include cheesegirl and nationalpublicradio.
  • Socialtext, the first wiki company, announced it is going opensource and a first step is the most usable wiki I've seen: Wikiwyg, a what-you-see-is-what-you-get widget that lets you put a module into your blog that anybody can edit.
  • MeasureMap is also not ready yet but there were private demos of a new blog measurement tool that will tell you what's hot on your own blog and where your readers are swarming.

And after all the fun, the hip went to a Web 1.0 party, with a drinking game when anyone said "monetize" and a presentation from CueCat.

Jeff Jarvis is former TV critic for TV Guide and People, creator of Entertainment Weekly, Sunday editor and associate publisher of the NY Daily News, and a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner. He is currently working with The New York Times Company at About.com on content development and strategy and consulting for Advance and Fairchild.

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