"User" Rehab: A story of redemption - Bradley Horovitz VP Advanced Development Division, Yahoo! Inc I grew up in Oakland. The word user has a different meaning! Laughter Dictionary definition of user from Wikitionary.com We have to move beyond "users" Turning users into people. We…
Matthew Ogle and Anil-Bawa-Cavia Last.fm MO: We connect people to music they love, event if they haven't heard it yet. How does it work? You just listen - to your own music. - Or the last.fm radio Share - your taste instead of files. - automative via scrobbling…
Ben Holmes - Index Ventures Pan Eurpoean venture fund 1.3bn Euros under managemnent Based in London and Geneva. Examples: Zend, Skype, MySQL, netvibes, moo, last.fm, king.com. Overview of VC Size of market: US $25bn 1446 transactions $10.5m average investment Europe: 4.1bn Euros 867 transactions 14m…
Commoditisation of IT and what the future holds Simon Wardley - Fotango Commoditisation Back in 1997, Spic girls, I was good looking, Labour were new and exciting. I was working in the financial sector. yesterdays hotstuff -> Today's boredom Photo of prime minister + Turkey 1890's - Electricity was hot…
Summary What makes a community Example of communities Common community themes Setting fertile ground for the growth of your community Characteristics of a virtual community Personal homepage Personal content creation Ability to interact with other's content ability to friend and share content Visitors don't make a community. A visitor might…
Edwin Aoki - Chief Architect AOL Where it all began. Commnuity was a a key promise of the web Webmail is the leading driver of page views. Email 9.32% of all page views Chat and IM take to the web. All the sucessful sites Mike mentioned are based around…
The future of startups and web companies The Magic formula Mike Arrington I'm scared of addressing brits due to TC uk, I want to say sorry for that. I want to talk about the difficulties European start-ups have. What's the right formula for a web start-up I'm a tech journo,…
So I'm here at the Future of Web Apps conference in London. It's a pretty full house and the hall is packed out. There are some noticeable differences to this year's event. First I spent about 10 mins trying to figure out where the information to access the wifi was.…