I’ve written some summaries / transcripts of talks I attended at the recent 6th International Semantic Web Conference in Korea and also the 1st Web 2.0 Expo Tokyo event.

International Semantic Web Conference

• Brewster Kahle, The Internet Archive – “Universal access to human knowledge (or public access to digital materials)”
• Barney Pell, Powerset – “Natural language and the Semantic Web”

Perhaps even better than my transcripts (if you have time) are the video captures of the invited talks, available at videolectures.net: Brewster Kahle, Barney Pell, and Chris Welty (which I missed myself).

Web 2.0 Expo Tokyo

• Evan Williams, Twitter – “In conversation with Tim O’Reilly”
• Rie Yamanaka, Overture KK – “A paradigm shift in advertisement platforms: the move into a real Web 2.0 implementation phase”
• Scott Deitzen, Zimbra – “The impact of ’software as a service’ and Web 2.0 on the software industry”
• Joe Keller, Kapow – “Understanding and applying the value of enterprise mashups to your business”
• Håkon Wium Lie, Opera Software – “The best Web 2.0 experience on any device”
• Eric Klinker, BitTorrent Inc. – “Web 2.0 and content delivery”

You can also read some other reports from Web 2.0 Expo Tokyo by Rob Cawte (1, 2), Daniel Goldman (1), John Mettraux (1), Yuki Naotori (1), Robert Sanzalone (1, 2), Serkan Toto (1), Nasir Sobri (1, 2) and the rest of the IDD / TeDD team (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). There’s also a short video capture of the end of Evan Williams’ conversation with Tim O’Reilly on YouTube.