32-400: O'Reilly Media, Inc. (formerly O'Reilly & Associates ) is an American learning company established by Tim O'Reilly that provides technical and professional skills development courses via an online learning platform. O'Reilly also publishes books about programming and other technical content. Its distinctive brand features a woodcut of an animal on many of its book covers. The company
64-406: A cease and desist letter to the non-profit Irish organizers of the event. This attempt to restrict through legal mechanisms the use of the term was criticized by some. The legal issue was resolved by O'Reilly's apologizing for the early and aggressive involvement of attorneys, rather than simply calling the organizers, and allowing them to use the service mark for this single event. In January 2005
96-521: A brainstorming session. Though O'Reilly is often credited with popularizing the phrase Web 2.0, it originated with Darcy DiNucci , who coined the term in 1999. O'Reilly went on to popularize the phrase as a handle for the resurgence of the web after the dotcom crash of 2000, and as a generic term for the "harnessing of collective intelligence " viewed as the hallmark of this resurgence. O'Reilly first called an "executive conference" in 2004, inviting five hundred technology and business leaders, followed by
128-423: A dispute with Amazon.com , against Amazon's one-click patent and, specifically, Amazon's assertion of that patent against rival Barnes & Noble . The protest ended with O'Reilly and Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos visiting Washington D.C. to lobby for patent reform. In 1998, O'Reilly helped rebrand free software under the term open source . O'Reilly sees the role of open source as being inseparable from
160-560: A finance and consulting background. In 2014 O'Reilly acquired Infinite Skills, a Canadian publisher of online and DVD video courses. O'Reilly uses Creative Commons ' Founders Copyright , which grants the company exclusive use of content produced by the authors who sign with them for 28 years. Although it is shorter than the current default duration of the monopoly in copyright law , it is still quite restrictive compared with other, widely used, licenses offered by Creative Commons. Tim O%27Reilly Timothy O'Reilly (born 6 June 1954)
192-530: A follower of George Simon, a writer and adherent of the general semantics program. Through Simon, O'Reilly became acquainted with the work of Alfred Korzybski , which he has cited as a formative experience. In 1973, O'Reilly enrolled at Harvard College to study classics and graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1975. During O'Reilly's first year at Harvard, George Simon died in an accident. After graduating, O'Reilly completed an edition of Simon's Notebooks, 1965–1973 . He also wrote
224-518: A public version of the event in 2005. Annual iterations of the event, known as the " Web 2.0 Summit " from 2006 onwards, continued until 2011. O'Reilly and employees of O'Reilly Media have applied the "2.0" concept to conferences in publishing and government, amongst other things. O'Reilly envisions the Internet Operating System as consisting of various sub systems, such as media, payment, speech recognition, location, and identity. He uses
256-460: A second magazine, Craft: , with the tagline "Transforming Traditional Crafts." Craft: folded in 2009. In the summer of 2019, Maker Media laid off its entire staff and ceased operations. In 2011, Tim O'Reilly stepped down from his day-to-day duties as O'Reilly Media CEO to focus his energy and attention on the Gov 2.0 movement. Since then, the company has been run by Laura Baldwin. Baldwin comes from
288-542: A subscription-based service providing access to ebooks and videos as a joint venture with the Pearson Technology Group . The platform includes content from O'Reilly and over 200 publishers including Adobe Press , Alpha Books , Cisco Press , FT Press , Microsoft Press , New Riders Publishing , Packt , Peachpit Press , Prentice Hall , Prentice Hall PTR , Que and Sams Publishing . In 2014, O'Reilly Media acquired Pearson's stake, making Safari Books Online
320-489: A well-received book on the science fiction writer Frank Herbert and edited a collection of Herbert's essays and interviews. O'Reilly got started as a technical writer in 1977. He started publishing computer manuals in 1983, setting up his business in a converted barn in Newton, Massachusetts , where about a dozen employees worked in a single open room. In 1989, O'Reilly moved his company to Sebastopol, California , and published
352-491: A wholly owned subsidiary of O'Reilly Media. O'Reilly did a redesign of the site and had success in expanding beyond Safari's core B2C market into the B2B Enterprise market. In 2017, O'Reilly Media announced they were no longer selling books online, including ebooks. Instead, everyone was encouraged to sign up for Safari or purchase books through online retailers such as Amazon. In 2018, O'Reilly Media rebranded Safari to what
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#1732858276316384-458: Is an Irish-American author and publisher, who is the founder of O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly & Associates). He popularised the terms open source and Web 2.0 . Born in County Cork , Ireland, Tim O'Reilly moved to San Francisco, California, with his family when he was a baby. He has three brothers and three sisters. As a teenager, encouraged by his older brother Sean, O'Reilly became
416-401: Is now O'Reilly online learning. The platform includes books, videos, live online training, O'Reilly conference videos, and more. In 2019, O'Reilly acquired Katacoda so users can experiment with code in the website itself. In 2003, after the dot com bust , O'Reilly's corporate goal was to reignite enthusiasm in the computer industry. To do this, Dale Dougherty and Tim O'Reilly decided to use
448-550: The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog , which was a best-seller in 1992. O'Reilly's business, then known as O'Reilly & Associates, steadily grew through the 1990s, during which period it expanded from paper printed materials to web publishing . In 1993, the company's catalogue became an early web portal , the Global Network Navigator , which in 1995 was sold to America Online . The company suffered in
480-749: The O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference and the Web 2.0 Summit . Overall, O'Reilly describes its business not as publishing or conferences, but as "changing the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators." In the late 1990s, O'Reilly founded the O'Reilly Network, which grew to include sites such as: In 2008 the company revised its online model and stopped publishing on several of its sites (including Codezoo and O'Reilly Connection). The company also produced dev2dev (a WebLogic-oriented site) in association with BEA and java.net (an open-source community for Java programmers) in association with Sun Microsystems and CollabNet . In 2001, O'Reilly launched Safari Books Online,
512-456: The dotcom crash of 2000. As book sales decreased, O'Reilly had to lay off about seventy people, about a quarter of the staff, but thereafter rebuilt the company around ebook publishing and event production. In 2011 O'Reilly handed over the reins of O'Reilly Media to the company's CFO, Laura Baldwin, but retained the title of CEO in recognition for the indispensable role he had in building the O'Reilly Media company and brand. O'Reilly serves on
544-464: The Future and Why It's Up to Us was published, in which he discusses the consequences of technology and its potential to enhance the human experience. O'Reilly has worked as an activist for a number of causes and prides himself on his company's "long history of advocacy, meme -making, and evangelism ." As a strategy of persuasion, he has evolved a technique of "meme engineering," which seeks to modify
576-411: The analogy of the biome of the human body having more bacterial than human cells (a ratio lately estimated at 1.3:1), but depending upon millions of other organisms each pursuing their own interest but nevertheless weaving a co-operative web. O'Reilly has been propagating the notion of "government as platform", or "Gov 2.0". He is considered the most enthusiastic promoter of algorithmic regulation ,
608-638: The board of directors of three companies: Safari Books Online , Maker Media , and PeerJ . He served on the board of Macromedia until its 2005 merger with Adobe Systems , and on the board of MySQL AB until its sale to Sun Microsystems . He also serves on the board of directors for Code for America . In February 2012, he joined the UC Berkeley School of Information Advisory Board. As a venture capitalist , O'Reilly has invested in companies such as Fastly , Blogger , Delicious , Foursquare , Bitly , and Chumby . In 2017, O'Reilly's book WTF? What's
640-442: The companies that survived the dot com bust from those that died, and identified key drivers of future success, including what is now called cloud computing , big data, and new approaches to iterative, data-driven software development. In May 2006 CMP Media learned of an impending event called the "Web 2.0 Half day conference". Concerned over their obligation to take reasonable means to enforce their trade and service marks, CMP sent
672-526: The company launched Make: magazine and in 2006 it launched Maker Faire . The flagship Maker Faire in San Mateo, CA , drew over 130,000 attendees. Other Faires around the world collectively draw millions. In 2012, O'Reilly Media spun out the Make properties into a separate venture-backed company, Maker Media, headed up by former O'Reilly executive and Make founder Dale Dougherty. In the fall of 2006, O'Reilly added
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#1732858276316704-464: The development of the Internet, pointing to the widely used TCP/IP protocol, sendmail , Apache , Perl , Linux and other open source platforms. He is concerned about trends towards new forms of lock-in . In 2003, after the dot com bust , O'Reilly Media's corporate goal was to reignite enthusiasm in the computer industry. Dale Dougherty, an executive at O'Reilly, invoked the phrase "Web 2.0" during
736-572: The first web portal , when they launched one of the first Web-based resources, Global Network Navigator (GNN). GNN was sold to AOL in 1995, in one of the first large transactions of the dot-com bubble . GNN was the first site on the World Wide Web to feature paid advertising. From 1997 to 2020, O'Reilly was known for producing tech conferences focused on areas ranging from software architecture, AI, big data , web development, design and more. In March 2020, O'Reilly announced they would be closing
768-405: The focus remained on the consulting business until 1988. After a conference displaying O'Reilly's preliminary Xlib manuals attracted significant attention, the company began increasing production of manuals and books. The original cover art consisted of animal designs developed by Edie Freedman because she thought that Unix program names sounded like "weird animals". In 1993 O'Reilly Media created
800-520: The inclusion of (duplicated) paid advertising results in its product search results for its third-party marketplace. The theoretical (legal-economic) underpinnings of this is discussed in a companion paper. After graduating from Harvard, O'Reilly married his first wife, Christina, with whom he moved to the Boston area. The couple raised two daughters, Arwen and Meara. Arwen is married to Saul Griffith . On 11 April 2015 O'Reilly married Jennifer Pahlka ,
832-649: The leaders of software projects to a meeting. Originally called the freeware summit, the meeting became known as the Open Source Summit . The O'Reilly Open Source Convention (which includes the Perl conference) was one of O'Reilly's flagship events. Other key events include the Strata Conference on big data, the Velocity Conference on Web Performance and Operations, and FOO Camp . Past events of note include
864-512: The live conferences arm of their business. Although O'Reilly Media got its start in publishing, roughly two decades after its genesis the company expanded into event production. In 1997, O'Reilly launched The Perl Conference to cross-promote its books on the Perl programming language. Many of the company's other software bestsellers were also on topics that did not attract much attention of the commercial software industry. In 1998, O'Reilly invited many of
896-545: The ongoing monitoring and modification of government policies via open data feedback. In 2001, O'Reilly coined the term inner source for the use of open source software development practices and the establishment of an open source-like culture within organisations whereby the organisation may still develop proprietary software but internally opens up its development. Originally proposed by Tim O’Reilly, and developed further in collaboration with Ilan Strauss and Mariana Mazzucato , “algorithmic attention rents” entails
928-516: The term " Web 2.0 " coined in January 1999 by Darcy DiNucci . The term was used for the Web 2.0 Summit run by O'Reilly Media and TechWeb (formerly CMP Media). CMP registered Web 2.0 as a Service Mark "for arranging and conducting live events, namely trade shows, expositions, business conferences and educational conferences in various fields of computers and information technology." Web 2.0 framed what distinguished
960-468: The terminology that people use. In 1996, O'Reilly fought against a 10-Connection Limit on TCP/IP NT Workstations, writing a letter to the United States Department of Justice , Bill Gates , and CNN , concerned that the Internet was still in its infancy, and that limitations could cripple the technology before it ever had a chance to reach its full potential. In 2001, O'Reilly was involved in
992-542: The use of a platform’s algorithms to allocate user attention to content which is more profitable or beneficial to the platform, at the expense of its ecosystem of users and third-party firms, content creators, website developers, etc. Algorithms are used to degrade the quality of information shown to the user, as paid for and addictive content is promoted ahead of “organic” content which best meets users needs. A detailed case study has been undertaken with respect to Amazon and its ability to degrade search results quality through
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1024-455: Was known as a popular tech conference organizer for more than 20 years before closing the live conferences arm of its business. The company began in 1978 as a private consulting firm doing technical writing , based in the Cambridge , Massachusetts area. In 1984, it began to retain publishing rights on manuals created for Unix vendors. A few 70-page "Nutshell Handbooks" were well-received, but
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