About（关于O'Reilly Radar）

At O'Reilly, a big part of our business is paying attention to what's new and interesting in the world of technology. We have a pretty good record at having anticipated some of the big technology developments in recent history. For instance, we launched the first commercial Web site, GNN, in 1993; we organized the meeting at which the term “open source” was first adopted; we were early investors in Blogger, which helped launch the blogging revolution; and more recently, our Web 2.0 conference launched a world-wide meme. We call this predictive sense the “O'Reilly Radar.” And while we're certainly not always right, we are, at least, good at making interesting guesses.

Our methodology is simple: we draw from the wisdom of the alpha geeks in our midst, paying attention to what's interesting to them, amplifying these weak signals, and seeing where they fit into the innovation ecology. Add to that the original research conducted by our Research team, and you start to get a good picture of what the technology world is thinking about. What books are people just now starting to buy, and which are falling off in interest? Which tech-related Google AdWords are rising or falling in price? What can we learn from predictive markets tracking tech trends? What do help-wanted ads tell us about technology adoption?

Contact Us

If you'd like to connect with us directly, suggest a technology, person, company, or project be put on our radar, request our participation in an event, or otherwise reach any of the Radar team, drop us a line at radar-contact@oreilly.com.

在O'Reilly我们作的很大一部分工作是关注技术世界中最新和最有趣的事情。历史上在参与一些伟大的技术变革方面O'Reilly有非常好的记录。例如，O'Reilly1993年发布了第一个商业Web 网站——GNN；在我们组织的会议中“open source”首先被提出；我们是Blogger早期的投资人，这个网站发起了博客革命的浪潮；近些年Web 2.0 conference更是提出了这一世界范围内的灵感。这种“先知先觉”我们称之为“O'Reilly Radar”。我们当然不可能做到总是正确，但至少长于做一些有趣的猜测。

方法很简单：从我们中间的一些技术先锋那里汲取智慧，关注他们感兴趣的事情，放大这些微弱的信号，然后研究它们在革新的生态环境中适合哪里。加上O'Reilly Radar团队所做的研究，人们就会开始看到技术领域正在思考什么的美好图景。人们正在开始购买哪些图书？哪些图书又正在退出市场？哪些技术相关的Google AdWords正在涨价哪些又正在降价？人们能从紧跟技术趋势的前瞻性市场中学到什么？关于技术趋势一些求助广告能告诉大家什么？

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如果您希望与我们直接联系，推荐一项技术、人、公司或者项目，将其放到Radar上，希望我们参加活动，或者联系Radar团队，请写邮件radar-contact@oreilly.com。