Startups are largely an American phenomenon. Why? What is it about America that makes startups work there? Could Silicon Valley be replicated in another country?

The Web is moving from a static, one-to-many model to a participatory, user-centric model, based on user-generated content, social networks and two-way conversations.

What if computers could make use of people? Jeff Barr will explain how the Amazon Mechanical Turk API does this, allowing computers to integrate Artificial Artificial Intelligence directly into their processing by making requests of humans.

JavaScript 2 will be finalised in 2007. To help migration an open source JS2-to-JS compiler is being developed, making JS2 a reality in 2006. Work on this compiler and the new features of JS2 will be presented by the inventor of JavaScript.