Wharton Professor Eric Clemons, a noted expert on the strategic implications of information technology spoke at Supernova 2008 about monetization models for the next generation of Internet businesses. Due to a medical issue, Eric was unable to fly out to the conference, so he recorded his remarks, and engaged in a live Q&A session via videoconference. His PowerPoint presentation (PDF) is also available.
To delve deeper into the Supernova 2008 theme, we asked several of our illustrious speakers and attendees for their own definitions of the Network Age.
Supernova Attendees John McCrea and Joseph Smarr of Plaxo, and David Recordon of SixApart link up in this first episode of SocialWebTv to discuss some of the Social Web issues. The site asks “Why don’t the social networks and communication tools you use work well together?”
Joseph discusses the Supernova panel about “Who owns the Social Graph” with David and John, explaining Google’s Open Connect and issues between OpenConnect and Facebook.
You can visit the SocialWebTv site, or watch the video below.
Leah Culver of Pownce discusses the “oEmbed” standard that first allowed Pownce to put media content from a large number of sites into user’s Pownce pages, and now allows video and photosharing sites to give a standard embed code out to other sites, without the other sites having to change the way they work.
For the user, the result is that they copy a link and the content they want to share is easily embedded.
In this interview with Nick Douglas, Venture Capitalist Jeff Clavier discusses the correct time for startup founders to seek capital, the role of the VC in an early stage investment, and the challenges of starting companies.
David Sifry, founder of Technorati, discusses his thoughts on the Liquid Conversations panel. He tells Nick Douglas how people can handle the huge inflow of information and content that social media participants and publishers have to handle. A discussion of making sense of this flow of comments and information ensues.
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