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May 31, 2006

Wack-a-mole 2.0

The wack-a-mole blogging circus piled in on Tim O'Reilly last week. In my view, the whole thing was a non-event - but obviously it filled a void somewhere. Tim responds in length.

Actually, just to add something - here is the bit I find most interesting from Tim's entry:

MediaLive filed for the trademark on the Web 2.0 Conference back in November 2003, when they first entered into the partnership agreement with O'Reilly on this conference. This was before Web 2.0 became such a popular term -- the filing actually preceded the first conference. However, I wasn't personally aware of this trademark filing till this past February, as a result of discussions with CMP after the MediaLive purchase.
So, for over 2 years Tim O'Reilly wasn't even aware that CMP had trademarked Web 2.0 for conferences. Hmmm....

Posted by Matthew at May 31, 2006 07:33 AM

Comments

"So, for over 2 years Tim O'Reilly wasn't even aware that CMP had trademarked Web 2.0 for conferences. Hmmm...."

Why would he be, really? This is minutae. Contrary t popular belief trademarks etc don't make money, work, sweat & tears do.

Posted by: Anonymous at May 31, 2006 03:58 PM

"Why would he be, really? This is minutae. ..." This was me. I forgot to insert all the field info in the comment form. -Steve

Posted by: Steve at May 31, 2006 03:59 PM