What will Web 3.0 be

I got up with this question asked by Maria in my mailbox, here are my thoughts:

Hopefully, a web by the people for the people: everyone wishing to have its own video, audio or written media channel will have it. Traditional media will be changed, created by contributions of citizen and journalist content;

Web everywhere: we’ll more and more be using it from home, coffees, using it from our computers, TVs and mobile phones. I’ll be walking on the streets, from anywhere in the world, having a Skype chat conversation at the same time;

A hub for creative people: as it started with Web 2.0, the web will continue to be used by curious and creatives to meet, share, exchange thoughts, ideas, and make the web and the world better. This movement will grow stronger as people will unite;

Geography disappearing in an immense web of sharing: the Web has made sharing thoughts and knowlegdge with the rest of the world easier than ever, how much of my life got influenced and shaped by meeting people online? How many ideas exchanged, that have evolved in each and everyone’s head, spreading, expanding, e v o l v i n g — changing our lifes? The amount of knowledge that get now shared, ideas that are created, how many lifes are influenced by virtually interacting with each other?

A global phonebook: with everyone having either a blog, or just a ID page where we can get to know about this person (picture, occupation, city of living, hobbies, social groups they belong to, interest, favorites, etc.), the web is becoming the largest phonebook ever. Blogs as we know them now won’t be blogs anymore but virtual id’s – our thoughts-ideas-tastes- virtual memoir, archived as a straight html files – intellectual souls, classified by day/week/month/year/decades – family trees, fully linked network of all our related friends, family, interest and hobbys. From these pages, everyone will be able to get into people’s webspaces, and make the move (or not) that could bring you to interact with each other. From there, many things could happen;

More than ever, a new media: slowly replacing, changing, adding to the TV, Radio and Newspapers, or complementing these. New kind of contents will grow: organic, spontaneous, original, and of course, trash (as in any media) and cooperation between traditional and citizen media;

A powerful showroom and marketplace: for a new generation of entrepreneurs, amateurs, writers, musicians, craft artists using the medium to have their productions seen by like minded people and interested buyers;

Advertising Wallpapers: many are saying the future of advertising is on the web – visual pollution and trashy content are what we’ll be having to deal with. Targeted intelligent advertising will be developed, centered on people’s interest and location;

Niche vs mainstream: I believe some communities will hit mainstream, attracting milions of users (social softwares, games, …), but most of them will be small, intimate communities. We won’t be strangers anymore, we’ll all be invisibly connected together, growing / sharing with each other. The more of yourself you’re gonna put into your community, the more will be given to the community – this entity, ecosystem, it’s gonna grow.

Web 3.0 is about communities, difference, market, online IDs, and the exploding of new media and entertainment format.

Paris, Vienne et Salzburg

Plusieurs me demandent comment a été notre voyage, me rappellant que je n’ai pas beaucoup blogué depuis mon retour.

Alors voici, je prend le temps de mettre de l’ordre dans mes photos de voyages, et vous commente chacune d’elles pour que d’ici vous puissiez voyager unpeu :

Paris :
toujours aussi charmante, malgré la pluie. Ville parfaite pour les amoureux, mais tellement pas veggie-friendly! J’ai rarement aussi mal mangé lors d’un voyage.

Bref, en 3 jours à Paris j’ai revisité le marais (toujours aussi fantastique), profité des déjeuner parisiens (croissants, beurre et café frais, et cette culture de la table qui nous manque ici), visité Sacré-Coeur, les Galeries Lafayette pendant que mon chum lui, prenait des photos de touristes enflamés devant la tour Eiffel.

Salzburg :
24hrs pour admirer une des plus belle ville d’autriche, et rencontrer Mozart, et la famille de mon beau. Ya seulement des photos pour vous donner une idée :

Vienne :
Rendu sur les derniers milles de notre voyage, je commençait à rêver d’un bain chaud et de journées tranquille. Nous sommes arrivés à Vienne vers 22hrs le soir, et j’ai eu bien du mal à trouver ce qu’il y avait d’excitant dans cette ville avant de découvrir le Museum Quartier, avec ses galleries, boutiques et cafés, le superbe marché de no√´l, les paysages d’europe de l’est et les cafés Viennois où là aussi la culture de la table prend toute son importance.

Pour en voir plus, toutes mes photos se retrouvent ici.

Vienna

We are now in Vienna after spending super nice time with Chris’s family in Salzburg. Pictures to come, some of my pictures of paris are now here!

LeWeb 3, round up

In all, 2 great days well filled up. Here are some of the points to resume, following questions i am leaving Paris with:

The new generation of web entrepreneurs:
this growing community is spreading around the world, creating tools and new uses for the web. People who would have been considered like amateurs and passionnate people can now create projects easily, at low costs;

Startups & entrepreneur – meaning?
the words ‘entrepreneur’ and ’startup’ are getting hyped and loosing meaning. I much prefer to talk about creative people and projects;

Local or global:
going global or local is not an easy and clear answer still, we’ve heard people talking about it as being an asset in some case, but not in all cases. I think at the end of the day, to trust your feelings is still the best way to go;

The Web2.0, about to go mainstream?
again, i am not sure. I still think we’ll be serving as many niches as there will be web2.0 products on the web;

VC’s going fishing:
do we need VCs for SOTW? Are VC’s over hyped again, fishing in a pool full of inexperienced young entrepreneurs? Is VC the solution or can we grow SOTW on our own in a relatively short timeframe and in a healthy way?

Web2.0 in Quebec:
is Quebec the place for us to grow our projects? (he! could not resist posting it)

Money!
is advertising and pay-per-month the only possible way to earn from web2.0 platforms?

How, and when will traditionnal marketing/advertising/web agencies jump into the web2.0?
they wont, unless the people at the head of these businesses are involved INTO the web2.0, meaning understanding it, using it, being a part of it. If not, even how hard they’ll try, even in hiring the best ‘web 2.0 people’, they wont make it. They’ll continue doing ‘Marketing and web 1.0′ until the heads of these businessees are replaced by people involved into this new web.

LeWeb 3, day 2

Second day at the conference, the internet connection is not usable, sorry for slow posting.

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I missed the first part of the day, there was no way for me to get up with sleeping an hour for the last 2 nites. Its now 14h.

Mena speech:
did i missed something? 10 minutes of slides about ‘What SixAppart learned from bloggers’ – uh, they love to post pictures and be asked questions, but what else? what’s next?

I would have rather loved to hear about what’s gonna be blogging in the next 10 years, following what they learned…

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SecondLife:
also here, kinda disapointing and not so entertaining. A demo of what is second life is not what i needed, i want to know what’s next, what are the most extraordinairy things happening in SL? What are people doing beside creating their avatars, going to clubs and… waiting for their screen to laod?

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THOUGHTS
Loic LeMeur invited politicians to come and drop by the conference, granting them 30 minutes on stage. I really wonder how appropriate is that, considering it more like a marketing strategy for LLM to be a little more into the media and into the politicians surroundings.
The security around is high, there is tension in the air and panels are chopped so to fit the politicians speeches in a agenda which was already full.

From LLM’s blog: La présence de Monsieur Shimon Peres demain à notre conférence le Web3 lui donne une dimension nouvelle. J’ai décidé d’inviter s’ils le souhaitent trois des candidats de premier plan à la présidentielle afin qu’ils rencontrent s’ils les souhaitent les entrepreneurs et blogueurs du web mondial

Dont get me wrong, i’m sure this kind of experience is unique (Shimon Peres’s speach was astounishing i heard) but again, the real objective behind this is kinda obscur… or not: having LLM at the head of Paris’s own Sillicon Valley?.

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17H, David Weinberger’s speech:
- about the politician speeches today: ‘they seemed to have forgot, its our internet, not their internet!!!’
- blogging in politics = giving up control
- blogging is in the essence messy and organic
- no links no web
- bloggers are not afraid of loosing readers by putting external links all around (links to other blogs for exemple), BUT, trad media is extremly afraid of loosing readers, keeping external links to a minimum
- bloggers find the interesting stuff to talk about, as humans do

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end of conference: bbw movement details

Conference Lesblogs 3 : notes

3h AM Montreal time, 9h am in Paris, the conference is starting with Loic Lemeur’s opening: leweb3 event, all word-of-mouth, no invitation or marketing strategy behind the organisation: 47 countries present, 1000 people.

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First talk with founder of Casa and Skype, notes:
- serve local market, even how small it is, but keep looking abroad
- web2.0 hype, what about web 3.0? web2.0 may not be a bubble, people are more carefull compare to the situation years ago, but hm, there are ups and downs, stay carefull.
- media transformation: the death of press? the need for diversity + the need for real press
- mix the best of tv and the internet: the venice project (to come).

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Google, notes:
- phase 1 of the internet, information (yahoo, google)
- phase 2, distribution and communication (amazon, ebay, skype)
- phase 3, networking

Google 9 notion of inovation (google this to find!)
1 – innovation, not perfection (!!!!)
5 – ideas come from everywhere

3 drivers of change:
fast internet access
information access
demand for self expression (!!!)

Internet is the new creative playground

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(name to come)
‘Considering sideways are free in all cities independently of the cost of the sq meter, every tax payer should do its contribution to the internet sideway.’

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(note to myself: omg, i wish they would serve coffee in the conference room, i’m so jetlagged……)

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Investors panel: is there a web 2.0 hype?
A good question which has been raised on the panel is one i asked myself weeks ago: should every good idea or project be turned into a Startup? Pushing one idea and build a company is maybe the trap, i do believe, and feel better in, working on different projects under one business name.
Why bulding so many metoo sites? is there really a need for so many copies? Why not innovate and do it better than the others?

Does the technology industrie really needs VCs as it gets cheaper to create a company? (!!!)

* * * * * 6h43 AM Montreal, midi 43 Paris – LUNCH!!! * * * * *

* * * * * 14H back from lunch, which was not much better than last year… * * * * *

Dave Silfry’s State of the blogosphere (the what?!? :p)
- consumers are now creators and producers
- about spam blogs ‘all healthy ecosystems have parasites’ (C Doctoro)
- but are people really keeping their blog updated? is one update in 3 months considered a lively blog?
- japanese (33%) and english (39%) are leading languages (french is 2%) according to technorati
- from consommateur to consom-acteur and participatory economy

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Linked in founder’s presentation:
- will every professional become a blogger? no, but they’ll mostly all have a profile online –> this i wrote about in 2004, with everyone, professionnal or not, having its own ‘Profile’ or ‘ID’ on the web – might it be a blog or not, we’ll all end up and network there, using the tool extensively or to a minimum.

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15H, THOUGHTS…:
we feel like every speech here is ‘ADD SUPPORTED’, everyone who’s got the chance to hold the mic is preaching his business or the company they invested in.

Also, i just realised that most of the entrepreneurs i’ve seen in Web 2.0 conferences are ‘amateurs’ who use the web as a tool and create their own jobs. What would these people be doing without the internet being there? How would they use this crazy innovative and creative potential?

Everyone, with or without a diploma, can use the tools to create a business which fits its own vision and needs.

The ‘Can do’ attitude, a generation of new entrepreneurs. INNOVATION CLEARLY COMES FROM SMALL BUSINESSES, not from corporations. Q: Why is entrepreneurship not teached in schools as it is with maths or football?

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Fon founder speach:
really interersting his comparision about why they choosed to build fon in madrid and not move to silicon valley as suggested by Google, one of their investor. Some facts remembered me of what i often feel in quebec: people’s lack of ambition and confidence in their power of creating something, people thinking that earning money is bad (you either stole it or earned it in a dishonest way).

16h45, EU vs US:
- Europe more oriented on local markets, US more global
- a ‘new wave’ of EU entrepreneur finally stopping to compare themselves with Sillicon Valley
- to the question ‘Can europe challenge the US market entrepreneurship?’ answer is
yes:27
there’s a little chance:4
too late:12
- new businesses: being international or keeping your national flavour? what is most successful?

17h20, THOUGHTS:
it is soooo interesting for us to be here right now, with people talking about issues we relate to in our everyday life as a business. Highly inspiring, but again, i feel quebec might be too small for us…

Netvibes:
- ‘Everything kinda happened by accident’ (!!!)
- building in EU means dealing with DIVERSITY. How? connect with people in these locality to get the local ‘flavor’ into the product. Give users control and let them participate

Les Blogues 3, de Paris à Vienne en passant par Salzburg

Je commence à m’exiter : nous partons la semaine prochaine pour Paris où nous assisterons pour la deuxième fois à la conférence LesBlogues. Nous nous y sommes rencontrés moi et Christian, début décembre 2005. Depuis, tout va vite.

Une deuxième visite à Paris pour moi qui y ai passé quelques jours à peine, et ensuite direction Salzburg pour aller rencontrer la famille de mon beau. Ensuite Vienne où j’irai pour la première fois. Bientôt le temps de faire mes valises!

Les filles et les nouvelles techno

Loic se demande pourquoi il y a si peu de filles inscrites à la prochaine édition de la conférence Les Blogs prévue pour Décembre. J’adressais déjà la question de la minorité de blogueure femmes dans la blogosphère Québecoise il y a quelques mois.

Comme vous pourrez constater, la conférence portant sur les nouvelles technos web attire beaucoup plus d’hommes que de femmes, pourquoi? La cause réside peut-être dans le manque d’intêret des femmes envers l’aspect technologique du web 2.0, et les sujets abordés qui lors de ces conférences portent généralement sur ce même aspect. J’ai aussi l’impression que la majorité des blogueurs masculins sont observateurs, ayant un oeil sur la blogosphère comme si cette dernière était un aquarium, et que les femmes ainsi que les 18-35 utilisent les blogues et outils web 2.0 essentiellement pour échanger et communiquer. Observateurs vs participants.

Les technologies attirent les hommes pour leur coté exploitant la logistique, la complexité et le rationnel. Ce qui me branche moi c’est tout ce qui est transformé dans nos comportements humains grâce à ces nouveaux outils, leur impacts sur notre développement personnel, les émotions créées grâce à l’entrée de ces nouveaux outils dans nos vies, la manifestation de tous ceux qui peuvent maintenant prendre le micro, la spontanéité avec laquelle cela peut-être fait, la découverte de millions d’amateurs (artistes, penseurs et observateurs) passionnés ainsi que tout les nouveaux canaux de communication qui se sont créé et qui n’étaient pas là auparavant. Voir 10 raisons de bloguer pour en savoir plus sur ce qui me branche dans tout ça.

Émotions, passion, spontanéité, communication, partage, développement personnel – des valeures qui sont beaucoup plus répendue chez la gente féminine. L’aspect technologique m’intéresse, mais ce que l’être humain fait de ces nouvelles technologies me passionne.

Les Blogs 3

We’ll be in Paris for the next Les Blogs conference on december 11 and 12th – the alpha program has been put online today – fame fame, only fame i know, considering the speakers: people from Techcrunch, MySpace, Youtube, Skype and so on will be there.

As it is now, we are the first people from Canada showing up, along with Mario from Opposum – check out the interactive map here.

Why going at another hip Web 2.0 conference you’ll ask. Because europe is far more exciting than US to me, people are more open minded, coming from germany, england, spain, france, denmark, norway, and so on, a mixture of people which is most likely to be quite interesting. And hey, that’s where our love story started, remember? (archive from LesBlogs 2.0 here).

We’ll be happily visiting Paris and Austria, and getting the most out of 10 days off.