NEW YORK, Oct. 4, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- PubSub, the essential prospective search tool for tracking what people are saying about the topics they care about, today announced that its co-founder and chief technology officer, Bob Wyman, will be a featured speaker at the Web 2.0 Conference taking place October 5-7, 2005 at San Francisco's Argent Hotel. Web 2.0 addresses the services, applications, businesses, and models that are reshaping the Internet. PubSub's prospective search technology is one of 13 products chosen to be premiered during the Web 2.0 Launch Pad Workshop.
Wyman will be a panelist in the workshop, "Search by Another Name: New Ideas in Search" taking place from 9:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, October 5, 2005. The workshop will provide a lively discussion from a sampling of search innovators who are developing new applications in the search marketplace.
"I am excited to participate on this prestigious panel and discuss the unique opportunities presenting themselves with this next generation of the Web," said Wyman. "It is important to explore how new search technologies, like prospective search, offer value to both business and information consumers."
Other panelists include Web 2.0 Conference Program Chair and Federated Media Publishing Chairman and Publisher John Battelle, Indeed CEO and co-founder Paul Forster, Ask Jeeves Vice President of Search Product Management Rahul Lahiri, and Machine Phase Systems Founder and CEO Michael Tanne.
Wyman will also present at the Launch Pad Workshop, a session where entrepreneurs debut their companies or launch new products, from 2:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. on Wednesday, October 5, 2005. PubSub will launch Structured Blogging, a set of universal structured blogging formats designed to make it easier to publish and find information on the Web.
Additionally, Launch Pad presenter Ron Rasmussen, CTO of KnowNow, will be using data feeds from PubSub when KnowNow launches its new KnowNow eLerts as "a free for personal use service" during the Launch Pad Workshop on Wednesday, October 5, 2005.
About the PubSub.com Service:
PubSub.com provides a free prospective search service that continuously monitors more than 16 million blogs and syndicated Web sites, over 50,000 newsgroups, all SEC Edgar Filings, press releases from major wire services, earthquake data from the U.S. Geological Survey, and FAA airport delay information to instantly alert users whenever material events occur. PubSub's prospective search provides a real-time notification service made possible by PubSub's proprietary "matching engine" which, each day, performs hundreds of billions of matches between subscriber requests and newly-published items.
About PubSub Concepts, Inc.
PubSub Concepts, Inc. is a New York-based company founded in 2002. The company develops Internet-scale Publish/Subscribe systems and plans a series of product releases designed to make prospective searching a vital element of the Internet experience. Visit http://www.pubsub.com for more information.