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We’re pleased to announce Supernova Forum 2010: Perestroika, to be held July 30, 2010 at the Wharton School in Philadelphia, PA.
Supernova always seeks to stay ahead of the curve. When we started in 2002, open wireless access, crowdsourced event wikis, attendee blog aggregators, and real-time back channels were innovations that few other conferences incorporated. That tradition has continued. We began to move away from the standard conference format several years ago with our Challenge Sessions and Attendee Roundtables. Our Open Flow and Real Time Flow tracks the past two years utilized a variety of novel tools, from Google Wave to open conference calls to graphic facilitation, to enhance... Read More
Web and chat: http://tobtr.com/s/662500
When: 9/15 4:00 pm PDT / 7:00 pm EDT – 9/16 7:00 am Beijing time.
Most Western coverage of the Internet focuses on the narrative of censorship and control, but misses the vibrant social nature of what is now the largest internet market of the world. In the West, the internet started in business/academia/government, fulfilling mostly functional & utilitarian needs. But in China, the internet started as a consumer phenomenon, focused on entertainment and communications. Also, like most of the developing world, China’s internet has developed hand-in-hand with the growth of mobile, Internet-connected devices – about 25% of total internet users access the internet... Read More
Yesterday, about 600 Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, VCs, and social media geeks piled into the historic Fox Theatre in Redwood City for the 4th annual TechCrunch CrunchUp. Instead of turning off our cellphones and keeping it dark and quiet, we filled the room with the blue glow of laptop screens and the rainstorm sound of typing. And instead of sitting back for a summer blockbuster movie, we watched Robert Scoble on the big screen, video streaming live from England. (Well, okay, there were other panels and presentations, too.)
The topic of the day was Real-Time Streams, and it focused on the usual suspects: Twitter, Facebook, Twitter, Friendfeed,... Read More
Back in 2002, I thought it was modestly innovative to hold a conference where online interactions were a core part of the experience, participants helped to co-create the content, information flowed in and out of the event in real-time, and the subject matter ranged across traditional industry boundaries. Modestly, because those developments seemed inevitable in an increasingly connected world. Yet here we are in 2009, and I still get asked about those features of Supernova, as though they were wild and novel. I haven’t changed my view about inevitability. And frankly, Supernova has moved forward a great deal since 2002.
Today, with so many fantastic online tools and information sources,... Read More
