The Next Web – Day 1 Wrap-up
This seems to have been the overall opinion so far.
A very concise wrap-up of all the presentations.
Adeo Ressi’s (The Funded) starting presentation was probably the best all day – entertaining, but filled with useful information on how to raise funding for a startup.
My comments on the first 12 startup presentations can be found in a separate post.
Wikia’s CEO Gil Penchina spoke about what it means to give users too much control of the service, which according to him is difficult, but will pay off in the end.
The presentation of JS-Kit’s founder Khris Loux was trying to be interactive through the use of their polling and commenting widgets, but also because of wifi problems ended up being quite an unstructured presentation about the interesting topics of content ownership, widgets and democratization of the web.
Scott Rafer had a nice discussion with Digg’s Kevin Rose, who, among other things, told that Digg will have a story suggest feature in the near future.
Pownce’s Leah Culver was awesome (or just kept repeating awesome all the time, which was duly note on The Next Web Twitter backchannel), but there was not much of real value in her presentation.
The presentation of Radar Networks’ Nova Spivack (creators of semantic tool Twingly) about the semantic web was the most technical of the day, but perhaps at the wrong time of the day. Semantic web will not show to the end user or create any new business models, although it will make current businesses more effective. Anyhow it will be the basis on top of even smarter and better web 4.0 will eventually be built on.
Diggnation was real fun, but the free beer and three hundred extra hardcore fans might have helped in making the atmosphere. After the show Alex and Kevin were treated like real rock stars.
As said, the first was filled with had good presentations, I hope day 2 is as good. On the networking side I spoke to a few interesting startups and a couple of fellow bloggers. The conference has proven to work to at least one Finnish startup, as the conferences moderator Eric Schonfeld wrote a short post about Scred on TechCrunch after talking with the guys earlier today.
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