3 posts tagged “web2.0expo”
I have to say we are really overwhelmed by the sheer volume of information and the quality of it here at Web 2.0 expo.
I have never written so many notes and new ideas and concept keep up coming like rapid fire. I guess that Marijn and I need at least a couple of years to develop them all. But WAIT: we do not have time for that! The development in Internet is at Top Gear we have to implement things quickly.
Of the many many things we saw and learned today just a couple of highlights.
We started of with Jeff Weiner of Yahoo who told us about yahoo pipes and the strategy of Yahoo in the near future. While Google and Amazon are focusing on massive storage, yahoo is more focused on communications and communities. You know what really surprised me? The total lack of any presence of Microsoft on this conference. Nobody spoke about MS, they weren't there themselves. I think they really need to act quickly before they are a goner. (BUY YAHOO!)
Our own Dirk Willem van Gulik demonstrated Joost and I must say it has more to it that you would think at first site. We got invited in the beta version and it is really impressive (certainly in user interface terms) I am curious which widgets and smart channels will come out. It will be a huge succes and my last name will be famous for ever ("are you the guy from Joost?" ) We had presentations about energy devices and open source hardware.
For Marijn and me the Mobile 2.0 part of the afternoon and the Venture Capital track were extremely insightful.
Last but not least we compared the user interface design of games with the UID of web2.0.
After a day packed with information we unwinded at Levende at Castro, one the most hip places in SF to celebrate a great Conference and time here in San Francisco.
By the way: I bought Parallels today so my macbook is now windows and linux as well.
We saw some interesting demo's from swivel (data presentation on the Internet), vidoop (a cool new login security concept), tell me ( a not so cool voice to data mobile startup just bought by Microsoft).
After that we listened to a great story of Bill Tancer of Hitwise and David Sifry of Technocrati about Internettraffic and blogs.
Hitwise divides the users in een couple of socio/demographic/lifestyle groups. Three of those are important to predict what the next big thing will be. (Youtube took for instance just SIX WEEKS to be the most dominant video website.
The groups are: Money & brains, Pools & patio, Young Digerati...
According to the most recent numbers the sites to watch out for are: Yelp (user generated yellow pages) Stumble upon (exhange of bookmarks), Weeworld (chat with avatars), Imeem (playlist exchange), Piczo (community website) and Veoh (video exchange).
Interesting stats about participation: only 0,16% of the users of youtube participate in uploading a video. For flickr: 0,2% and wikipedia: 4,6%. A participant is usually older and male.
Although the amount of active blogs in decreasing (21% vs. 36% last year), They are getting more and more important in the top 1000 linked to sites.Tagging really is exploding and now 37% of all bloggers are adding tags. That will create all new possibilities in the future.
By the way: I started to tag with this new VOX blog and am investigating the automatic tagging from tagyu.
The happening of the day was and interview on stage with Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google. He had a really good performance, was witty, smart and confident. According to him Google will find growth potential in mobile and local space. He also is convinced that we are just beginning to grasp and use the possibilities of the Internet abd that scalability is a key thing.
Finally the conference has started. Before the first keynote speaker (Uncle Jef from Amazon) however we followed some additional workshops. The guys from Modzilla told us a little bit more about open source development. We then went into a presentation about user generated content. Interesting to see that the authority balance has shifted so powerful. It is important to learn and lead your users while offering them the option to play with the content.
By the way the guys from Modzilla showed us some new upcoming features that are wicked awesome. (The Coop). Have a look at dai.sy. or weblin It's al about sharing the browser experience with other users.
Into the browser expect more functionalities as well - so a host of features now embedded in almost every website (like print sent to a friend, email etc. etc. ) will be obsolete.
Jef Bezos (founder and CEO of Amazon) told us about Amazon Services - a giant platform on which the can deliver digital services in the future.
