11-11:40: Giants Outlook on Web 2.0 (Yahoo, Orange, Nokia, Windows Live)
While the first was amazing, this was quite the opposite. It was too generic of a presentation. Questions were posed like “does size matter?†and they all said, “well ‘yes’ and ‘no’†and expain why size might be good and the negatives of being big which the generalities were just useless. This was more a pitch of why these companies are awesome and less about what they’re working on. They all said that user-generated content is the key to their success. The questions were all soft-balls, like “do communities matter?†to which they all responded an obvious “yes†– the Nokia presenter was the worst. He would say blanket statements like “communities aren’t about technologies,†to which the moderater would ask, “what are they about?†and he would answer blankly, “they’re about people.†Worthless. I saw much more innovation and better presentations as the Startup place.
Source: MPL’s Blog
With no video recording of the event I can’t give my own opinion, but I would like to know why Nokia would send someone who is an expert at business lingo to an event that caters to bloggers.