DIGITAL. TRENDS. FUTURE.

30
Nov

Suranga Chandratillake: Online Video Search – Will it change the TV industry?

Posted by / Conference, Influential People, Media Trends, StartUps, Video

Interview with Suranga Chandratillake, CEO, Blinkx at the Monaco Media Forum 2008.

29
Nov

Re-Imagine Online Advertising with Calvin Lui

Posted by / Conference, Future of Marketing, Influential People, StartUps, USA Techology Trends, Video

Calvin Lui, CEO of Tumri, is talking about new opportunities for Online Advertising. Tumri is already serving over one billion impressions per month. They are currently only active in USA, but will expand to Europe and Asia this year.

One key advantage of Tumri is that “the platform delivers highly relevant advertising messages to consumers while lowering creative production costs and timelines.”

Here is the Video, filmed a the MMF 2008.

28
Nov

Bill Bryant about his latest Ventures

Posted by / Conference, Influential People, USA Techology Trends, Video

I met Bill Bryant at the Monaco Media Forum, here is a short Video about his past and current projects.
He is also an investor of Minfo.

27
Nov

Alvin Wang Graylin about Mobile Search in China

Posted by / China, Conference, Influential People, Media Trends, Mobile, Mobile Future 2020, StartUps, Video

Minfo is the leading mobile / wireless search platform in China. Alvin Wang Graylin is the CEO and Co-Founder of Minfo. They started four years ago and have already reached over 13 million users. They have just signed a cooperation with China Telecom to be the exclusive mobile search and mobile advertising provider. This will give Minfo access to over 350 million China Telecom subscribers, over 100 million with mobile internet access.

Alvin told me about the differences to Internet-based search and how the satisfy the mobile users. Mobile Search is not entering one keyword and get a list of links back, it is more about answering one question. Minfo is offering SMS-based and Mobile Internet based services. Searches via mobile web are taking around 50% of all searches (and 50% via SMS), but is increasing rapidly. They developed a semantic search method and support several languages.

Here is the Video Interview filmed at the Monaco Media Forum 2008:

27
Nov

Omar Hamoui about the Status Quo of Mobile Advertsing

Posted by / Conference, Influential People, Mobile, Mobile Future 2020, StartUps, Video

Interview with Omar Hamoui, CEO, AdMob at the Monaco Media Forum 2008.

26
Nov

Igor Smirnoff about Digital Newspapers, Online Publishing and ePaper

Posted by / Conference, StartUps, Technology Mega Trends, Video

Interview with Igor Smirnoff from Pressdisplay.com at the Monaco Media Forum 2008.

Esther Dyson is one of the Investors of Pressdisplay.

26
Nov

Master Sommelier Paul Roberts about his favorite wines

Posted by / Conference, Influential People, Party, USA Techology Trends, Video

At the first evening of the Monaco Media Forum 2008 ACCEL Ventures invited to an high-class winetasting with some of the best Sommeliers. Paul Roberts is one of 110 people worldwide who are official “Master Sommeliers”. He was guiding the conference attendees through the list of wines offered during the wine-tasting. I felt a bit like Gary Vaynerchuk from Winelibrary TV, who is tasting wines all day.

Paul told me about the great wines from Bond Estates in Napa Valley, California. My favorite wine was the 1997 Cabernet Sauvignon from Bryant Family Vineyard.

We did the Video Interview at the end of the Conference Party at Moods. Note: there had been already lights on and all other guests have left, so I think it was already quite late…

24
Nov

Martin Varsavsky about the status of Wifi Network FON

Posted by / Conference, Influential People, Innovation, Video

Interview at the Monaco Media Forum with Martin Varsavsky, Investor and Founder of FON.

Martin told me that there are more than 300.000 FON Wifi Hotspots worldwide which makes FON 10 times larger than T-Mobile Hotspots. FON Germany is developing slower than other countries due to the german mentality. Martin says that “sharing” Wifi might not the right slogan in Germany. He is suggesting to change the marketing message to “Make money with your Wifi” or “Save money with your Wifi”. He also talked about the new Fonero Router 2.0 for hackers and developers.

19
Nov

Lawrence Lessig about the key-challenges of Creative Commons

Posted by / Conference, Future Trends Keynote Speaker, Influential People, Social Media, USA Techology Trends, Video

Interview at the Monaco Media Forum 2008 with Lawrence Lessig, Professor, Stanford Law School and Co-Founder, Creative Commons. I asked him “How did Creative Commons start?” His speech at the MMF was called “Some Rights Reserved”.

13
Nov

Esther the Astronaut!

Posted by / Conference, Influential People, Innovation, Media Trends

Video Interview with Esther Dyson about her current “Astronaut Training” at Star City, Russia. She is reporting about her experiences and the hard training at Space Adventures on her Flight School Blog.

Interview filmed at the Monaco Media Forum 2008 at the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel.

13
Nov

Interview: Spencer Reiss at Monaco Media Forum 2008

Posted by / Conference, Influential People, Media Trends, Social Media

Interview with Spencer Reiss, Wired Magazine, about the Program, the Speakers and the Topics of the Monaco Media Forum 2008.

13
Nov

Fotos of the Monaco Media Forum 2008

Posted by / Conference, Influential People, Media Trends

I posted a few Fotos of the Monaco Media Forum 2008 on my Flickr Account.

13
Nov

Watch the Monaco Media Forum 2008

Posted by / Conference, Influential People, Social Media

I am taking part at the MMF 2008 as one of the “architects of the new media landscape”.

There are several ways to see what is going on at the Monaco Media Forum 2008.
You can either watch Videos on the MMF Youtube Channel, follow MMF on Twitter or join the MMF SocialMedian Group. Enjoy.

MMF08 Monaco Media Forum 2008

The Monaco Media Forum (MMF) brings together leaders of new and old media for two and a half days of high-level discussions about the future of online, broadcast and print communication. Aggressively global in outlook, the invitation-only event focuses on emerging opportunities in technology, distribution and content, as well as the implications for marketing and finance. Now in its third year, MMF is the premier meeting place for architects of the new media landscape.

11
Nov

Getting Ready for the Monaco Media Forum 2009

Posted by / Conference, Innovation, Social Media

Tomorrow I will be at the Monaco Media Forum 2009… you can follow me on Twitter during the day and I try to blog a summary at the end of the day.

Here are some more Infos about the Event:

The Third Monaco Media Forum will take place from November 12-14, 2008 at the Monte-Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort in the Principality of Monaco. Some 300 of the world’s key players in both new and “old” media – CEOs of global media groups, financiers, digital experts, entrepreneurs, senior journalists, academics and bloggers – will convene to discuss and debate the digital revolution and its impact on the new media landscape. The discussions take place in the midst of unprecedented technological and financial disruption.

Already one of the world’s key media get-togethers, the MMF is sponsored by Google with the support of the Principality of Monaco. As part of its support, Google will be providing a designated YouTube Web site to showcase the event. The MMF is co-produced by PublicisLive and Monaco Mediax with additional support provided by MMF partners. Partners include Accel, Lenovo, NewspaperDirect, Press Display, Publicis Groupe, and Vivendi, along with Media Partners including News Corporation, PaidContent.org, Vpod.tv, and YouTube.

The Monaco Media Forum 2008 is chaired by HSH Prince Albert II, and co-chaired by the following distinguished media leaders:

Nikesh Arora, President, EMEA Operations and Senior Vice President, Google
Jean-Bernard Levy, Chairman and CEO, Vivendi
Maurice Levy, Chairman and CEO, Publicis Groupe
Ruigang Li, President, Shanghai Media Group
James Murdoch, Chairman and CEO for Europe and Asia, News Corporation
Ben Silverman, Co-Chairman, NBC Entertainment & NBC Universal Television Studio
Niklas Zennstrom, Co-Founder and Co-Chairman, Joost & Atomico

The theme for 2008 is “Media Everywhere: Thriving on Disruption” and the program covers a broad range of today’s most critical issues, to be discussed in plenary sessions including:

State of the Mediasphere
The Rise & Rise of Distributed Media
Open Mobile
Big TV in a YouTube World
Think Locally, Act Globally
The Two-Way Audience
Networking Music
Internet 2018: The Road Ahead
The Revolution Will Be Streamed
Some Rights Reserved
The Digital Imperative
The Money Crunch
Shock of the New: Building the Next Disruption

In addition to the plenary sessions, there will also be a series of presentations and demonstrations involving cutting-edge new technology.

On the occasion of MMF2008, Prince Albert will bestow the 2nd Monaco Media Prize, awarded for “innnovative use of media for the betterment of humanity.” Last year’s winner was Bangladeshi journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury.

“The Monaco Media Forum is a unique occasion, a serious debate about the future of media with Monaco as a magnificent backdrop,” says John Rossant, Executive Chairman of PublicisLive, co-producer of the event. “The 2008 Forum will be especially fascinating and important, given the extraordinary events which have been taking place in the last few weeks and months.”

“This great event is important for Monaco, when the Principality becomes a capital of global media,” says David Tomatis, CEO of MonacoMediax.

For more information, go to www.monacomediaforum.org.

09
Nov

300+ Cases & Examples of Social Media Marketing

Posted by / Future of Marketing, Future Trends Keynote Speaker, Innovation, Marketing Innovation, Social Media

Due to recent Social Media Marketing projects at Ahead of Time we did a screening of relevant Social Media Marketing Campaigns, Cases & Examples. Here is a list of more than 300 companies who are active in the Social Media landscape.

The list was started by Peter Kim and I added a few cases.

04
Nov

Where do all the Fotos go? Flickr vs. Facebook.

Posted by / Social Media, StartUps, USA Techology Trends

If you talk about a Foto-Community, you might talk about Flickr. But things are changing and Social Media is changing the way people use their content.

Flickr and Facebook launched in February 2004, but facebook kept its platform only for a closed user-group. In Mid 2007 facebook opened its platform to the public and the success story of facebook began.

Flickr reached 2 billion fotos in 2007 and now hit the 3 billion mark in 2008. The quality of fotos on Flickr is great and a lot of professional fotografers us flickr to publish their fotos.

On the consumer generated content side, facebook is growing rapidly. Within the last two years Facebook has become THE biggest Foto-Community worldwide. Its Foto-Application is one of the most favorite application. A year ago there had been 4 billion on facebook, today there are more than 10 billion.

Links:
Facebook Statistics
3 billionth Foto on Flickr (see comment)

04
Nov

Welcome to Super Tuesday

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“Obama Porn” - Batman

Via Steve Rubel.

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