Website referred by Tim O'Reilly at Interop 2008

Just compiled all the websites mentioned by Tim O'Reilly at Interop 2008 conference. It's quite amazing to know the kind of change happening in the world because of "Web 2.0". Harnessing the collective intelligence and the User generated content and the business model evolving around "Web 2.0" is quite interesting. Anyway here is the all website list mentioned by Tim.

Weather Related :-

http://www.stormpulse.com/ - Hurricane tracking and mapping
http://qcn.stanford.edu/ - Collaborative Quake-Catcher Network

Some cool stuff :-

http://www.botanicalls.com - If you have Indoor plants @ u'r home, check this site
http://www.ideastorm.com/ - Dell site for storming some new ideas
http://www.singularity.com - Ray Kurzweil - Artificial intelligence Guru
https://www.23andme.com/ - Get your DNA pattern

Energy Related :-

http://www.seriousmaterials.com - Informative
http://www.wattzon.com/ - Eye-opening site on energy usage
http://www.amee.com/ - APIs to implement at energy sites
http://www.energycamp.org/ - “unconference” on IT-related carbon footprints


Funding for startup - with a great cause to improve humanity :

http://www.instedd.org/ - Innovation lab for early disease detection and rapid disaster response
http://www.benetech.org/ - Funding for social cause projects
http://www.omidyar.net/ - Funding for social cause projects( Run by founder of e-bay)


Medicinal and Emergency issues and Financial :

http://www.ushahidi.com/ - Rapid emergency in Africa (highly recommend to check it out)
http://www.witness.org/ - See It, Film It,Change It
http://www.prosper.com/ - Want a personal loan
http://www.clickdiagnostics.com/ - Connecting rural patients with remote doctor
http://www.patientslikeme.com/ - Social networking for Patients with same diseases

Eye opening Sites :

http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/ - Connecting digital technology with public life.