Enabling Next Generation Web Apps In and Beyond the Browser Mark Anders - Sr Principal Scientist - Adobe Systems, Inc Started with ASP at Microsoft. I left MS and joined macromedia because of flash. Flash can look like this: Spacialiser - interpretive dance for your pc Or you can have…
Kevin Rose: Digg.com Crowd generated media Digg ecosystem Why should the crowd care? How do you get people to interact with your site? Creating incentives on every level Why should people submit content (slashdot, del.icio.us) Slashdot has 500 new stories every day. I asked the founder What's…
Spotlight Sessions. Stephen Sokols BT four trends driving shift in the telco industry. Traditional industry lines being blurred. Skype VOIP etc. P2P tech is prolifereating Advertiosing 1:1 is not sufficient as we move to 1:many Progressive telecoms need to embrace the shifting landscape and turn threats into opportunities.…
"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…