Le Web3 Live

Marc Canter was the moderator of Tuesday’s session “Bringing social to software: radical change is coming.” Who could better moderate a Web conference than “Big Mouth” Canter?

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“Personalization 2.0.” That’s how Jonathan Medved, CEO of Vringo, an Israeli compagny, describes the personalization of a mobile phone. According to him, a mobile phone is “an extension of your personality.” It is all about “expressing who you are.” Ringtones are one way of expressing your difference. But Vringo goes further with applications like videos, animations, photos and also avatars that can be added on a mobile phone. “The content will be projected in networks that will be shared with friends,” he explained.

Below is an interview with Jonathan Medved.

(Photo Milica Sekulic/creative commons)

With social networks becoming more and more important every day, and users revealing more and more of their private life, there are bound to be problems - especially in terms of digital identity theft and protection of personal data. This was the subject of the opening session of LeWeb3. It was a good choice of topic, as the question has been in the news since Facebook tried to add social advertising to its services.

So a debate took place between Chris Alden from Six Apart, Dan Rose (the International Facebook vice-president), lawyer Michel Jaccard and Jaewoong Lee from Daum communication.

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Hans Rosling’s presentation was billed as a 20-minute speech about “Why books and school lectures still exist.” Read more

It’s not easy to become a “friend” with Dan Rose. It’s rather paradoxical that the vice-president of Facebook can’t be easily found on the Web. Perhaps it’s because “Dan Rose” is such a common name in the US. A better explanation could be that Rose is careful about his privacy on the Web. On his Facebook profile, Rose “only” lists around 400 friends, just as many as on his LinkedIn network. And most of his “friends” working for the social-networking company. Read more

Denmark, 31

Fonctions :

Entrepreneur ; cofounder of the file-sharing application KaZaA, the peer-to-peer application Skype and Altnet, the network that sells commercial music to KaZaA users

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Tired of hearing your friends talk about Myspace or Facebook? Want to yell at your so called friends that you want to be alone and that you’re fed up with receiving their invitations to join a”friendly” group? Welcome to the anti social web.

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Live blogging, social networking and permanent gaming – Web 2.0 starts to look like a “life net”. And so, what happens when you die? Will your digital ID remain, bringing you into eternity through the Internet? Will you change into an e-ghost?
It seems like our behaviour towards death is changing as our approach to social relationship is evolving. Funeral and mourning codes are rather obvious in real life, but what will they look like online? Read more