I just spent an exhilarating and exhausting 2 days @ SIME
invited as a speaker by my friend Ola Ahlvarsson, Co-Founder of Boxman, Founder of result:
[btw the first time I see a company with a beta blog as only company representation on the web]
It was exciting to meet and talk to Loic Le Meur (sixapart), Martin Varsavsky (skype, Fon), Tariq Karim (netvibes), the inevitable Andreas Weigend (former CTO of Amazon and feature conference showmaster), Nico Lumma (mabber), and Bob Stumpel (advertising guru from holland). Microsoft was there to present its new Windows Live and how it sees the future of advertising.
A number of new startups out there, and many discussions about the individual gaining the means to become an economic entity on the web.
I had a slot with Tariq and Nico about Everything 2.0. I started off with a video about how
was creating new opportunities for the Digital Boheme – in the person of jobless actors – to present themselves, having now, through sevenload, secured a job to present the leading dating platform neu.de as actors in advertising.
Link: sevenload.com
I then tracked the success of sevenload back to its appeal for a broad, real-world audience, fulfilling real (everyday) needs.
All this is gradually – and at a fast pace – changing the was we do business, and more importantly, the way our society works.
