Dan Rose – Facebook: There is a movement towards better content on the web.
Chris Alden – Six Apart : over the next year, we’ll see the gap closing between UGC and publishing.
Dan Rose : Facebook won’t go into physical goods.
Michel Jacard – attorney, on managing privacy : the user has all the liabilities and the rights; in practice it’s difficult to implement because you have to ask the service provider to remove the information.
Evan Williams –Twitter : What can we take away to create something new?
Evan Williams –Twitter : It’s not inconceivable that we add video at some point.
Kevin Rose – Digg: one of the things that scares me in the Valley nowdays is (these entrepreneurs) raising rounds of funding very early on while they don’t need it. You give up so much of your company early on. (At Digg), We’ve kept control of the company.
Kevin Rose – Digg, on growth : We’re still very small, 40 people. Scaling was a major issue at start.
Kevin Rose – Digg : It makes it a lot easier to be in the Sillicon Valley, meet the guys in parties.
Hans Rosling : We need the world more than the world needs us. France needs the world more than the world needs France. Would the French accept to hear that?
Philippe Starck-designer : Most products are made to be sold and make money, with 90% sheet and 10% of usability. I do not like the idea of target consumer. The products of the future are “no products”: 90% of usability and 10% of “I do not know what”. The “no consumer” is looking for quality, economy, usability. The connexion between the “no product” and “no consumer” is the moral market and you will see more and more projects around that.
Philippe Starck-designer : A product is just a way to help your friends have a better life. It’s a concept first and a design after.
Brent Hoberman – founder LastMinute.com – will launch Mydeco.com in January 2008 : When there’s a lot of fragmentation, there’s a lot of money to be made
Rafi Haladjian – Nabaztag : The rabbit just shows that there are other ways to work than to type on a keyboard on a computer. It’s the beginning of a story.
Nelson Mathos – Google quoted Rupert Murdoch : Big will not beat small anymore. It will be fast beating slow.
June Cohen TED conference : 110 000 000 blogs online and counting
Andrew Keen – Author “The cult of the amateur” : Why are we looking to the internet to rebuild trust, conversations and communities? The internet can not replace the real world. Second Life is not real life.
Andrew Keen – Author “The cult of the amateur” : On one hand, traditional media s being destroyed, but it’s not good when consumers feel that they do not have to pay for content anymore. My book is meant as a challenge to that utopian and radical vision.
Emily Bell – The Guardian : your history follows you online.
Emily Bell – The Guardian : The broadcast model is profoundly broken.
Tariq Krim-Netvibes : Everything will be widget.