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Digital lifestyle day. Me too.
One week ago the
DLD 07 started. I was there. And I liked it. The overall excitement, coolness and cheer was somewhat exhausting. :-) But I met some interesting people, heard some interesting talks and had a great (though often interrupted) brainstorming chat with Tariq from
netvibes.
Some of the notes I took:
- Catarina Fake mentioned that publishers usually do not have a R&D or structured innovation process. I noticed that too. Innovation is stuck between several people's gut feeling and interpersonal likes and dislikes. And the process is not failure-tolerant: Once a topic fails, it is "burnt" for some time and not tried again in a different variation.
- NGOs do use Skype a lot.
- The One Laptop per Child Laptops are really cool. It's a shame that the "Buy two, get one" method of distribution (you pay for two and one goes to a child in need) is just a legend.
- The woman behind Anshe Chung is really rather shy and just likes to play role games. She invented her character to be powerful and self-conscious. Her husband talked about their Second Life business and how the virtual character seemed to demand expanding the business to the real world.
- It would be cool the merge Second Life with Google Earth.
- At metacafe funny and international videos (that is especially, videos without language) are most successful. So I suggest they let users write local subtitles for their local platforms. This way you can make videos with text international too.
- And if I would want to make money on metacafe, I'd produce a cooking show series. :-)
There was too little and strange food. And it was way too crowded. But I'd go there again next year. :-)
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Hi Magdalena,
it was great to see you there! And thanks for sharing your top DLD moments. :)
I will try to send the photo to and of you two geeky 'guys'! Please remind me if I should happen to forget.
Your observations are great, I think. I am also convinced that the one laptop per child project could experiment with more biz models, including the two in one model (just like the X % goes to this community in this village type of solutions). My favorit is the green one as it looks like Shrek with green ears.
And totally agree with non-verbal videos taking the lead. Plus funny ones. The olda recipe (pet, child, sth funny) and no langugae barriers - guaranteed success, and even revenue.
Hi Anna,
thanks for dropping by! :-) I guess I should write more articles in english...
Yeah, send me a photo. I did not take any because I figured that everyone else would publish theirs on the net. But I only found one photo with me in it yet. ;-)
http://www.flickr.com/photo...
(Just kidding.) Next time I should try and be more of a celebrity...
Sure, celebrity or just in the swimming pool at Hotel Bayerischer Hof. :)
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it was great to see you there! And thanks for sharing your top DLD moments. :)
I will try to send the photo to and of you two geeky 'guys'! Please remind me if I should happen to forget.
Your observations are great, I think. I am also convinced that the one laptop per child project could experiment with more biz models, including the two in one model (just like the X % goes to this community in this village type of solutions). My favorit is the green one as it looks like Shrek with green ears.
And totally agree with non-verbal videos taking the lead. Plus funny ones. The olda recipe (pet, child, sth funny) and no langugae barriers - guaranteed success, and even revenue.