Did Tim O'Reilly Spam Me?
I got an unsolicited commercial email from Tim O'Reilly today. I just happened to be in Tim's address book. So he must have thought it would be okay if he sent me a piece of electronic luncheon meat. Tim's message includes the CAN SPAM necessities like an unsubscribe link and a snail mail address. It also includes apologies at the beginning and end of the email. But that doesn't make it quite right, IMNSHO.
No doubt Tim thinks differently.
I happened to "have the fortune (or misfortune)" to be in his address book because we exchanged some correspondence years ago. I never signed up to be on his mass mailing list. And while the expensive conference he's hawking sounds really cool and their are tons of impressive technorati on the program, I'm just not keen on the fact that someone of Tim's stature would take the step of making an unsolicited commercial emailing in this manner.
Of course, I'd be happy to attend. But there would be some conditions. I'd have to get in for free, get put up in a four star hotel, and fly in on a private charter jet ... just like those glittering technorati ...
Until then, Tim might want to read up on permission marketing and how to properly run an opt-in list. :)
-----Forwarded Message-----
From: Tim O'Reilly
Sent: May 19, 2004 7:44 PM
To: (my email address)
Subject: Please join me at the Web 2.0 Conference -- The Web as Platform
You have the fortune (or misfortune) to be in my address book, and I
hope you won't object to a mass mailing about a conference that I'm
planning for the fall.
If you've kept in touch with what I've been writing and speaking
about for the past couple of years, you know I believe that
the Internet is now at its second stage of development.
Web application providers such as Google and Salesforce.com
are readying their IPOs, and we're increasingly realizing that
the net is indeed the platform for the next generation killer apps.
The real questions that need to be answered are: how will this
next stage evolve, which companies and people will be shaping
the next level of business innovation, and most importantly, what
are the ideas and technology trends driving the next phase of
our industry?
I recently joined forces with John Battelle and MediaLive
International, Inc. to plan a conference to explore these issues.
It's called the Web 2.0 Conference - The Web as Platform -
and will be held on October 5-7 at the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco.
Web 2.0 speakers include leaders from Internet giants, the
innovative companies that are transforming the way we do
business, and the venture capitalists who've funded their
visions of the future:
Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO, Salesforce.com
Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO, Amazon
George Conrades, Chairman and CEO, Akamai
Mark Cuban, Owner, Dallas Mavericks; Co-Founder and Chairman, HDNet
James P. Currier, CEO, Tickle, Inc.
Cory Doctorow, Staffer, Electronic Frontier Foundation
John Doerr, Partner, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers
Bill Gross, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Idealab
Bill Gurley, General Partner, Benchmark Capital
Bill Janeway, Vice-Chairman, Warburg-Pincus
Brewster Kahle, Founder and Digital Librarian, Internet Archive
Mitch Kapor, Founder and Chairman, OSAF
Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law, Stanford School of Law
Udi Manber, CEO, A9
Mary Meeker, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter
Halsey Minor, CEO, Chairman and Founder, Grand Central
Louis Monier, eBay
Dr. Robert Morris, Vice President, Personal Systems and Storage;
Director, Almaden Research Center, IBM
Kim Polese, Co-Founder and Member, Board of Directors, Marimba
Michael Ramsay, CEO, TiVo
Dan Rosensweig, COO, Yahoo!
David L. Sifry, Founder and CEO, Technorati, Inc.
John Battelle and I will be moderating the event. Please visit
http://www.web2con.com for a complete list of speakers and sessions.
All sessions are designed to be highly interactive, opportunities for
conversation between speakers and audience, because we expect
that most of the people in the audience would also be qualified to
appear up on stage!
Sessions will cover issues such as "E-Commerce as a Platform",
"Search is a Platform - Where is it Going?", and
"Repeat Offenders: What We've Learned"; as well as "real
world" workshops that focus on how market leaders are
learning how to leverage the Web as a platform. You'll learn what business
models are working, what's next on the horizon, and how all of this will
affect your own business. We've also left plenty of time
for catching up with your old friends and making new acquaintances.
Since you're in my address book, you must be a VIP :-), and so our
conference team is offering a VIP price to you from now
through June 7. Just click here to register, use priority code VIP,
and you will receive up to $700 off the price of the conference:
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/web2con/create/ord_web2
I hope you'll join us. And if you're in my address book for some
reason other than an interest in next generation technology, please
accept my apologies for the mass emailing.
Sincerely,
Tim O'Reilly
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
P.S. We realize we haven't invited everyone who should be a part of
this conference. To make sure these business leaders get an
opportunity to attend, we have created a special "Friend of a
Friend" policy - please feel free to forward this invitation to
carefully selected friends and colleagues and encourage them to
register online at:
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/web2con/create/ord_web2
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Posted by geekbooks at May 19, 2004 07:12 AM
