Keynote at the Belgian Federation of web workers (Feweb) about my story as the cofounder of Storify and the opportunities ahead for people working in the web industry if we allow ourselves to think bigger and see the world as our potential target market.

1. Xavier Damman
(@xdamman)
February 12th 2015 - #FeWeb
Copyleft 2015 @xdamman - Please steal!

2. Storify

4. We have an API
https://dev.storify.com
(#ShamelessPlug)

5. From: Belgium
To: San Francisco

6. "It doesn't matter where
you come from, it matters
where you go"

7. Was it easy?

8. "It takes time to become an
overnight success"

9. "You can't stop a woman or
a man who never stops"

10. No excuse

11. Where is it going from
here?

12. "Follow the trend lines, not
the headlines"
1
Bill Clinton

16. From consumers to
prosumers

19. Borders are in your head

20. There is no such thing as a
"Belgian market"

21. Embrace the new world

22. Our parents, us, our children

23. VISA, Paypal, Bitcoin

25. Our new country

26. Any questions?
@xdamman

27. Any more questions?
@xdamman

28. One last maybe?
@xdamman

29. Thank you!
@xdamman

30. Credits
4 Centralized, decentralized, distributed networks:
http://networkcultures.org/unlikeus/resources/
articles/what-is-a-federated-network/
4 Facebook relationships worldwide: https://
www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/
visualizing-friendships/469716398919