Some highlights of this conference session with Steve Gillmore
I have been watching this conference session of the 'LeWeb' conference in Paris, december 2009. Web 2.0 Developments for 2010 were discussed; here are notes of this conference.
Guests:
Jack Dorsey - CEO van Twitter,
Andrew Keen (wrote the book 'Cult of the amateur'),
Kevin Marks - VP Web Services van BT, Paul Carr - British writer),
Loic Le Meur, CEO van Seesmic en organisator van LeWeb congres;
others.
Twitter
De 'firehose' will be opened for all Twitter applications. This means that the 50000 Twitter applications can now use the whole tweetstream in Twitter, in realtime. De 'Track' service will be switched on again. Realtime search results will be 'pushed' to the use; also by using SMS. This enables better filtering of the tweetstream.
'Web OS'
The two competing platforms are: Chrome OS HTML5 and Microsoft Silverlight - the question is will they co-exist? Michael Arrington: clearly a 'war' is going on between Google and Microsoft in this area.
Steve: WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) and Silverllight will merge into one system; this will be their 'Web OS'. The question is how fast will this happen.
Steve Marks: the WebKIT foundation of Apple is becoming the foundation of the platforms. This was faresighted of Apple to open source this platform and make it thus broadly available.
Mike Arrington on the strength of Google Droid: it is esentially a Google Voice platform; the great advantage is the portability of the numbering scheme.
Google market dominance and privacy
Andrew Keen: he was in Brussels last week; all the talk was about the market dominance of Google. Michael Arrington talks about 'privacy being dead'; talks about the
http://foursquare.com example of people displaying their location using this new twitter application.
Steve Gillmore: more than other platforms, Twitter has made it possible for people to have a voice on the internet.