World Economic Forum: Web 2.0

An interesting web-cast with quite a line-up:

Caterina Fake, Founder, Flickr, USA
William H. Gates III, Chairman, Microsoft Corporation, USA
Chad Hurley, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, YouTube, USA
Mark G. Parker, President and Chief Executive Officer, Nike, USA
Viviane Reding, Commissioner, Information Society and Media, European Commission, Brussels

Challenger

Dennis Kneale, Managing Editor, Forbes Magazine, USA

Moderated by

Peter Schwartz, Chairman, Global Business Network, USA

The rapid rise of online social networks is both a social and business phenomenon, the impact of which is only beginning to be understood. The consumer-powered Web 2.0 creates innovative ways for businesses to operate and people to communicate.

What is driving the emergence of virtual communities? Is the rapid rise in their valuations justified?

How are companies beginning to use social networking strategies for product and market development, as well as for communication?

Webcast

Come again?

I am about to install Vista soon on my Macbook, using Parallels. I am quite interested on what it can do and if it really be a positive change in regard to XP. I will keep you updated once I get things running smoothly - contridactis in terminus?

Get a First life

All the commotion on Second Life may be passing by normal people, but people spend quite some time on the web know what Second Life is pretty well known. In fact, a lot of people write about it on their blogs.

I've tried it a while ago. Installing the Second Life client on my Macbook, but after spending some time in this virtual world I have come to the conclusion I am no Second Lifer.

I'd rather have a First Life :)

Joost

Last week I signed up to be in the beta-testing team of Joost.
For those who do not know what Joost is, here is an interesting article about it on Wired.

Article

Transformers - Alternate Game

Perhaps you've seen it already, perhaps not.
Transformers, once known as a tv-series is soon to be released as a feature film.

Anyways, I was watching the trailer and something caught my attention. In certain parts of the trailer words are shown. At :37 and :39 you can see the words: Sector Seven Org and Takama 83.

After looking up something about it I found the following.

The words actually stand for an alternate game.

Go to the url Sector Seven Org and use the password Takama83. A pop-up will show up with, what I believe to be a game related to Transformers. I could use some help however, I find it hard to understand it all.

Office 2008 for Mac

Good news from the Microsoft Mac Business Unit. They just announced Microsoft will launch a totally new and updated Office for Mac 2008 version later this year.

I am glad to hear this and like the fact the Mac BU keeps developing software for Apple.

Kudos

Squirt :)

Oh my gawd!

http://www.apple.com/iphone

Squirt! :)

The Pirates of Silicon Valley

I ran across this docudrama through a Dutch marketing-weblog (Marketingfacts) I visit often. Take your time watching this film. It's 10 parts of 10 minutes.

Have fun.

Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999) is an unauthorized made-for-television docudrama written and directed by Martyn Burke. Based upon the book, Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer, by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine, this film documents the rise of the home computer/personal computer through the rivalry between Apple Computer (Apple II and the Apple Macintosh) and Microsoft (DOS, IBM PC, and Windows). The central story of the film begins in the early 1970s and ends in 1985 when Steve Jobs resigned from Apple Computer. The film is also structured by a set of "book ends": it begins and ends with Jobs' return to Apple in 1997.

Back

So, it has been a month ago the last time I posted something on the weblog. To be honest, I was too busy in December to spend time to post interesting articles. But a new year, hence a new start.

I will keep it short, but wanted to post something I have been waiting for some time now.

The combination of social communit website wih a virtual life "game". LinkedIn just started a new service where one can asks questions to people in their network. I have received some questions as well, but one request stood out.

LinkedIn Meeting on Second Life, would you be interested joining in a virtual meeting??
On Saturday Jan 20, 18.00 hrs Central European Time there is a virtual meeting on Second Life for LinkedIn networkers. What is your opinion on virtual meetings? What is your experience with Second Life sofar?

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Here is the hyperlink to join SL: http://secondlife.com/?u=f807b03d565583d6aae3a4e02324bf7d

Joining is free and in order to accomodacte the different LinkedIn user groups:

- Network (45,198,28 IBM)
- LinkedIn networkers (45,198,28 IBM)
- Recruitment (197, 229, 22 ABN-AMRO)
- Jobhunting (197, 229, 22 ABN-AMRO)
- B2B Networking (45,198,28 Laguna Beach)
- Marketing & Sales (62,89,25 Spaceport Alpha)

These are all pretty stable properties. Linking you to a group will show other people your special interest and thus help in effective networking. We'll meet at the different coordinates.
The main meeting will be held at IBM but if there are too many people in one place, the system gets sluggish thats why I also added some alternatives.

I hope to meet you there on Saturday Jan 20, 18.00 hrs Central European Time! Naturally everything, including the groups is for free. You can forward this message to other LI users in your network if you want to.

Sincerely,


Ray van den Bel (Ray lange)

P.S.: any donations to buy land on Second Life for the Network group will be welcome!

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I will try to attend. It will be interesting I am sure.