Future of Web Apps – Mike Davidson

Mike Davidson from Newsvine was the last speaker of the afternoon. He was holding us back from making our way to the Google party so he had to be on his game. He was the only presenter who started with a story. I appreciated the ice breaker.

Here are some of his comments:

• With a user generated content site, much of the content that is created is crap
• Myspace does a great job of turning trash into treasure
• del.icio.us is great at extending your memory
• Second life game – talked about the importance of this game but that his machine is not fast enough to run the game
• Social sites must be able to scale to be effective

Some of his reasons why social networking works today but did not work 10 years ago:

• “Always on” factor, even more important than the speed
• Much easier to find and contribute
• Much better publishing tools

What’s Working:

• Letting users do what they please – i.e. comments
• Keep comments on
• Dunbar number – which basically means that you should limit groups to 150
• Top user on Newsvine in August earned $400

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