Acknowledgments

This book wouldn’t have been possible without the patience and input of many people. We’d especially like to thank:

  • The people at Networkshop, Coradiant, Bitcurrent, GigaOm, Techweb, FarmsReach, Syntenic, and Akoha (especially Austin Hill) for putting up with our constant distraction and midnight oil and for sharing monitoring data with us when needed.

  • Technology conferences, blogs, and industry events where much of the material in this text was first presented and tweaked, including Interop, Web2Expo, Mesh, Enterprise 2.0, eMetrics, Podcamp, Democamp, and Structure.

  • The restaurants, pubs, and coffee shops that let us linger and put up with heated discussions, particularly the staff at Lili & Oli, The Burgundy Lion, Brutopia, the Wired Monk, JavaU, Toi, Moi et Café, and Laïka.

  • All the people who write free tools that help us build the Web. There are hundreds of plug-ins, sites, clients, search engines, and reporting platforms. We’ve covered many of them in this text. Without these tools, written and released into the wild or offered as free entry-level services, the Web would be a slower, less usable, less reliable place; these developers and companies have our gratitude.

  • Many of the industry heavyweights who have given us their time and their thoughts, and who paved the way for a book like this, including Avinash Kaushik, Paul Mockapetris, Lenny Heymann, Steve Souders, Guy Kawasaki, Ross Mayfield, Hooman Beheshti, Imad Mouline, Bob Page, Cal Henderson, Jim Sterne, Bryan Eisenberg, Eric Reis, Dave McClure, Eric T. Peterson, Charlene Li, and Jeremiah Owyang.

  • The artists and DJs who have kept us sane along the way. Notably, Underworld, Simon Harrison, Pezzner and others at Freerange, and Dirk Rumpff. You speak our language and have made it possible for us to remain sane during long nights of writing and editing.

  • The entire team at O’Reilly, including Simon, Lauren, Amy, Marlowe, Sumita, Rob, Rachel, and Mike, all the way up to Tim. Thanks for believing in us (and being patient).

Alistair thanks Sean, Ian, Hooman, Dan, Marc, Oliver, and the rest of the Interop posse; everyone at Bitnorth; Eric and JFD; Jesse, Brady, Jen, and everyone else at O’Reilly; three Phils, Cheryl, Paulette, Michelle, Gordon, and the rest of the Kempton Resort; Brett, Paul, and Randy; and of course Doreen, Becky, and Adam.

Sean thanks Alistair, A-K, Brig, Deww, Ian, Hazel, Jayme, Kirsten, Marc, Pablo, Scott, Simon, and Wes for just being there and never asking anything in return.

Cary Goldwax, Dan Koffler, Steve Hunt, Scott Shinn, Guy Pellerin, Tara Hunt, James Harbottle, Lily, Oliver & Angela, Brad & Am, Chris & Melissa, Claudine, Steve Fink, CR, the Houghs and Foucault, Phil Dean, Dennis, Naomi, the shade in between, Adam & the choopa team, the blessed team and the folks in #ud & #colosol.

Finally, the group we really want to thank is you. Our Twitter followers, our Facebook friends, we’re strangers now, but hope to know you soon. Find us online (@seanpower and @acroll on Twitter), and come talk to us. These connections are the ones that bring the book and our shared knowledge alive! Thank you.

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