LeWeb3 2007 - Conference Web 2.0 : the Dark Side
This conference, Web 2.0 : the dark side, was the first of day one of LeWeb3 2007, was held by Laurent Haug (Lift Conference) with Dan Rose (Facebook), Michel Jaccard (Attorney), Jaewoong Lee (Daum Communications), Chris Alden (SixApart). Here i share with you some “quotes” and thoughts concerning conferences of day 1.
The internet is just another form of human expression, dislocation when people can speak quicker and in a spread way not seen before. When people think that they can exhange with others on things, and that they want to engage, they find it important to have an identity. The more people are investing time online, the most they want to invest in their online identities.
Because of UGC, information don’t have to be centralised anymore. Identity must be understood by the user and not controlled. On the behaviour, Facebook is no value service except what people are putting in it. Friendship connections made everything, relation on facebook are based on real world. The true world is just replicated the best on an online service. Giving control to the users over their information is the solution. How far can you go in looking at the user profile in order to suggest him products ?
90% of user content is crap, but some say that 99% of TV is crap too. Does social web crap the internet content ? Is internet publishing, that is the question… maybe not because internet is a living space, not a publish place. What’s crap to some people is interesting to others. The social web has enhanced the web, products reviews for example. But is the review to be trusted, that is the question, because we don’t know the guy. Now with social media, the reviews of my friend come first, what my friends are buying come first, and this is replicating nothing but the reality.
I really think that there is still power, ownership and responsability to be given by services to users. Identity on the web is not a little subject of course, but to my opinion, must be seen as the extension of the identity on the tangible (i even don’t like to use this word) world. About the quality of the information, i would also say let the users evaluate, and then you’ll stay out of crap.
