The Economist runs an interesting article about the innovative power of computer slash music slash soon-to-be mobile-phone company Apple. It’s mercurial CEO Steve Jobs is a rare showman in the technology industry but has twice succeeded to start a whole new line of business.
The success story started in 1984 with the launch of the Macintosh […]

And finally the summary of the last talk of the day. Rod Beckström wants to leave us with a new toolkit for managing organizations. He uses an interesting metaphor by comparing the organization of the spider and that of the starfish. The starfish is a typical example of a decentralized creature. If you cut of […]

A strange machine with ten antennas which creates a superbroadband connection: Slurpr. It combines several wifi networks and combines it in a superlarge network. It looks as an ubergeek product with all the antennas sticking out.
Next is Respectance. Respectance is about sharing sorrow and mourning online. Respectance is a special community where we can remember […]

Dick Hardt is founder and CEO of Sxipper, an online identity service. Hardt has a very entertaining speech about the next identity. First, the definition of identity. If we want to the answer what Identity is, we ask GYM: Google, Yahoo , Microsoft. That generates tons of results. Ask the German Wikipedia, and you get […]

And now one of the talks everybody hase been waitng for; Tariq Krim from the Parisien Netvibes. Krim starts off by mentioning that it’s all about attention these days. Our digital life is going out off control. Netvibes helps you to focus what is important to you. Netvibes brings you straight to the data you […]

Ebuddy provides instant messaging to all platforms for all browsers for all devices. Ebuddy can be used on mobile phones, Sony PSP’s, Nintendo’s, etc. It is a successtory, they have more than 40 million online and over 6 million mobile users. It counts up to more than 1 billion pageviews every month. The main […]

Tapan Bhat, vice-president of Front Doors, Yahoo, asks the question: Is the next web the next web at all? Tapan Baht kicks off with a short overview how the web changed. The old web contained static content, moved to a web where search is the dominant cocept to the web nowadays and the future which […]

Debora Schultz, former marketing director at Six Apart, has a presentation called “Stop yelling and start weaving. Communicating in a relationship economy”.
Schultz talks about the fact that the medium is the relationship. More and more people are moving away from email in the direction of instant messaging, chatting and even Twitter. You are connecting anywhere […]

After the break we get some product presentations. The first is Microsoft Silverlight. Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications. Adobe shows Apollo,  a cross-OS runtime that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, etc). Furthermore they extended the […]

Jeff Clavier is a succesfull venture capitalist with French origins.  He points out that the market for investing is much more difficult in 2007 than in 2004. Less and less talented people are available and the competion is getting much stronger. But he still invests. There are still a lot of offline inefficiences, large pockets […]