Les Blogs - Where Are We Going?
From Lesblogs (yep, that’s lesblogs) in Paris. Notes from a session with Barak Berkowitz, Caterina Fake, Charlie Schick and Meg Hourihan:
- Caterina - Photographs are easy to produce and consume–that’s why we started with them at Flickr.
- Meg - ‘Blog’ is about the democratization of media, including audio and video. A new way of connecting.
- Charlie - The conversational content - the content is the excuse to have a conversation.
- Barak - Bloggers are (according to focus groups) “people with too much time on their hands who think too much of themselves”. Heh. So. A horizontal platform, reaching an audience from 4 to a millioin.
- Caterina - Social networking is changing people’s perception of people something of themselves online.
- Caterina - Will services be aggregated, or modular? See also Yahoo 360. Flickr’s appeal was, in part, an open structure.
- Cool. Hugh is making noise by making dots on a business card two seats down. I expect he was rendering the long tail in this set.
- Charlie - Assembling services for the average user. The alpha nerds can figure out their own choices, but companies want to corral the average human.
- Joi - The open, connected virus is infecting big companies with the acquisitions.
- Barak - Nokia is supporting LiveJournal–announcement du jour.
- Barak - Blogging is asynchronous and persistent. He thinks email isn’t asynchronous. Je disagree. Blogs are communications without obligations.
- Charlie - Metadata is getting more and more important, the more content we generate and must manage.