Just got back from Paris from the event Les Blogs. Very interesting and definitely worth a follow up event next year. Great location and tasty fingerfoods complete the picture. Thanks to the complete organization!
Darren Barefoot gives a nice summary of the event. Dutch readers can read more in Frank-ly and Blogologie. Some photos from the Dutch team (LostBoys, MediaRepublic, me) in Paris can be viewed right here.
Some highlights from my perspective:
- Internet 2.0 is about connecting people (sharing/group behavior/open source/bottom-up). Reminds me of Howard Rheingold's book Smart Mobs on GeoWeb and collective action.
- Increasing gap between generations
- Open APIs will drive the innovation on the Internet the coming years. Expect new services integrating emergent services by using open APIs.
- Rise of blogs with surveys integrated (even corporate blogs)
- Corporate external blogs gain traction and can be used for different purposes (market research, PR, R&D, HRM etc.).
- Flickr comment on video sharing (unlike photo sharing): video is more time-consuming to view and more difficult to scan (although video-indexing/compartimization is already available)
- Rise of Wikis for collaboration within the enterprise
- Rise of RSS relative to e-mail as e-mail is more intrusive.
- Increasing integrating of blogs within mainstream media (MSM). Example: Memeorandum
- Different news+photo aggregation sites like 10x10 to supplement GoogleNews, NewsInEssence and Yahoo News
- Attention.xml. More here
- The future of events is in real-time blogging while scanning and participating in the live text chat on the speakers while listening to the speakers themselves.....what do you mean 'hypertasking'? ;-) In different instances, the live text chat from the connected attendees was more inspiring, humorous and informative than the speakers, even though the quality of the speakers generally was already very good indeed (especially Doc Searls, Joi Ito, Yossi Vardi, Euan Semple, Ross Mayfield and Lee Bryant). The live text chat by the attendees functions sometimes like a real time check of the content within the live presentations (real time PlanetFeedback for content ;-)).True interactivity! And sometimes it is just a great laugh (FleshBot Blog) and some outsiders drop by to chat and say hi. Expect the live chat to add real value to the event as a whole (archive function).
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