Lots of juicy bits of information are circulating following the conclusion of the Web 2.0 Summit held this week in San Francisco.

Here are a few that piqued my interest (perhaps they’ll spark yours):

Web 2.0 Summit: U.S. Becoming Less Relevant In Global, Internet Economy

In terms of the Internet — especially in technologies key to Web 2.0 success — the fastest growth is in non-U.S. markets. For example, Germany leads the e-commerce market, China leads in online gaming, South Korea leads in broadband, Japan leads in mobile payments, the United Kingdom leads in online advertising, Brazil and South Korea lead in social networking, and the Philippines leads in micro-transactions via SMS.

MySpace, Facebook bantering at Web 2.0 conference
via CNET News.com’s Caroline McCarthy

MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe and News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch took the stage at Web 2.0 and confirmed that the company is working on a platform that will launch “within a couple of months.” But when no date’s given, expect delays: considering how long we ultimately waited for Windows Vista (and now, Apple’s OS X Leopard) this could mean the MySpace platform is even further off than we think. And the company did say that it won’t be open to all users immediately, with a “sandbox” of one or two million beta testers preceding its full launch.

And no doubt there will be much more to come as the spin-off of the O’Reilly & CMP Web 2.0 Summit – Web 2.0 Expo Berlin – is taking place this November to “meet the increasing demand for Web 2.0 comprehension and skills, and to build a broader European Web 2.0 community”.