GSP West Monday Intros

Slide 1: Graphing Social Patterns West Intro & Welcome Dave McClure March 3-4, 2008 S an Diego, CA

Slide 2: Brave New Web • The Web is changing, becoming Social • S ocial Networks growing, Users engaging • S ocial Platforms deploying, Apps spreading • Feeds distributing info, Viral Loops spinning • Monetization somewhat elusive? ... but: • Good times for Developers and Marketers

Slide 3: S ocial Platform Wars YouTube? FB apps iGoogle Bebo FB apps Gmail? Facebook FB apps Google / Google Gadgets (“ Rebel FB apps Open Social Friendster A lliance” ? ) Ning u kYo (“ The Empire” ? , Orkut FB apps “ Coalition of Roc ter S oc F lixs iL i a lM ed i a The Willing” ) ik e LinkedIn Slid e Hi5 MySpace Widgets (“ Clone A rmy” ? ) Gigya Widgets M yB logL og OS apps Yahoo OS apps Photobucket ClearSpring Widgetbox Widgets OS apps

Slide 4: Monday Keynotes – Charlene Li, Forrester – Amit Kapur, MySpace – Ben Ling, Facebook S essions – Ten M illion in Ten Weeks – Facebook M arketing 101 – Giving Good Poke [lunch] – Y ahoo M yB logL og A PI – The Need for Feeds – B ring Y our Own Platform [break] – Widget S trategies – Privacy M anagement & Data Portability – The DiS o Project

Slide 5: M onday Night • F acebook Open B ar • AppNite Demo Contest • The O’Reilly Radar – Tim O’Reilly • Ignite! • Werewolf… awwwooooooo