January 28th, 2007
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. :-)