social.

Promise to be very interesting.

Suw, Hugh (cool cartoon), Anina (model blogger), Marc (well known for sleeping).

My mensuration are 34-34-34 (peut-être que je vais avoir autant de succès (et d’attention qu’Anina!).

Some people play WoW only to socialize because their other friends are playing.

Social interaction mediated by computer: email, irc, blogs, etc.
– communication problem, not enough emotional bandwidth.
– change identity in real life (so no problem on the Internet)
– how to increase the emotional bandwidth?
– touch, physical contact is good.

mena.

Keynote: Mena Trott, co-founder MovableType.

Civility and blogging.
– Can bloggers filter themselves?
– IRC backchannel, danger? fun?
– people are affraid of blogger.
– attack of the blog.
– a single blogger can cause a lot of damage.
– codes of ethic.
– don’t write things that you wouldn’t tell face to face.
– we have to live with it.
– accountability and archiving
– people would irc differently if these conversation were archived.

Mena est jolie quand elle est choquée. Vidéo ici.

Téléphones.

Naturellement, quand on se retrouve à passer une soirée avec la crème de la crème du monde branché, on porte attention aux « portables » de tout ce monde. La tendance, c’est définitivement la série N de Nokia. Pas vu un seul Blackberry, quelques Treo, beaucoup de Sony, mais surtout des Nokia. Ici c’est le multimédia qui l’emporte.

money.

Investing 2.0 (2.0 is overused!)

(Web 3.0 is the next thing, 2.0 is soooo 2004.)

– Startup are easier to start.
– No more need for investors
– GYM (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft): buy startup.
– Founders will make the money, not the VC.
– Not everybody will be acquired.
Photoways got 24M€ ? Yep.
– copy/paste model from the US to Europe, not good.
– west coast: failure is ok.
– is raising money a proof of success? (just mean they found somebody crazy enough to invest!).
– me too funding, by me too VC.
– consumer internet is good again.