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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.
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Stefan Constantinescu
Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.
