I moderated a panel on Tuesday at the Graphing Social Patterns conference. Dave McClure, a panelist, called it “the most fun, crazy, 90-mph rollercoaster, good time panel session i’ve EVER had the pleasure to be on.” I’m not sure I agree it was the best panel ever, but we had a lively discussion about the value of Facebook, the value of Facebook platform to developers, what should be done about black hat developers, and Jason Calacanis, in addition to his insightful comments, threw in a few entertaining personal attacks as well. Thanks to Robert Scoble, Dave McClure, Jason Calacanis and Rodney Rumford for their participation. Video of the session is below.
by
Michael Arrington
on
October 11, 2007
Advertisement
- Actively Discussed Posts
- Want To Try Out Google Chrome OS For Yourself? Here's How.
327 comments - TechCrunch Readers: God is Your Co-Pilot, and Stuff that Piggy Bank
68 comments - Facebook's iPhone App Is Broken. Who Will Fix It?
67 comments - CrunchUp Starts Off With A Bang Tomorrow With Twitter COO Dick Costolo
62 comments - Twitter COO: We'll Have An Advertising Business Soon. And You're Going To Love It.
54 comments
Responses
Comments 
Leave Comment
Commenting Options
Enter your personal information to the left, or sign in with your Facebook account by clicking the button below.
Alternatively, you can create an avatar that will appear whenever you leave a comment on a Gravatar-enabled blog.
Trackback URL
- Actively Discussed Posts
- Want To Try Out Google Chrome OS For Yourself? Here's How.
327 comments - TechCrunch Readers: God is Your Co-Pilot, and Stuff that Piggy Bank
68 comments - Facebook's iPhone App Is Broken. Who Will Fix It?
67 comments - CrunchUp Starts Off With A Bang Tomorrow With Twitter COO Dick Costolo
62 comments - Twitter COO: We'll Have An Advertising Business Soon. And You're Going To Love It.
54 comments
Information Filters
Screening The News »
Skypetastic
Skype CEO Josh Silverman Can't Stop Smiling »
This week on TechCrunch
Real-time distractions, India, rumours, Scoble's future and more »
List Mashups
Facebook Agrees To Set Friend Lists Free. »
Realtime Crunchup
Salesforce’s Benioff Talks Social Enterprise Strategy, Chatter, More »
Great conference, Dave.
Mike, when are you going to come speak in our class?? Let us know.
(danielag@stanford.edu)
Dan Ackerman Greenberg
Head Course Assistant, Stanford Facebook Class
http://www.acke...angreenberg.com
“Head Course Assistant, Stanford Facebook Class”?
Why don’t you bone Mark and get it over with?
Haha, we’re hoping he comes in for a guest lecture as well.
Dan
Interesting discussion — any more videos from that conference?
>>any more videos from that conference?
there are about ~15-20 videos from the Graphing Social Patterns conference we’ll be posting next week as soon as we get thru all the video production & editing. the Viral Strategy panel moderated by Justin Smith of InsideFacebook was particularly interesting.
there are also slides from several of the presentations here:
http://slidesha...net/group/gsp07
(not all of these are up either, but we’re working on it)
- dave mcclure
http://www.graphingsocial.com
FadBook? Value?
lol
FadBook, gimme a break!
http://fakestev...er.blogspot.com
Too bad fubar wasn’t there to be on the “Con” side of this conference: http://www.fuba...f8_with_fu.html
great conference.. the panel was a perfect ending..its been scary how seemless the news breaks have been in social space from conference to offices. its like the agenda was the prolouge to the book of the week …
Fantastic conference! Great job Dave! And I must say Mike… that panel was the funniest and most interesting panel of the entire conference! I particularly liked Mike’s non-leading questions to the audience…
It was really a very good panel discussion.
The root of Facebook’s success is simply the domain name. http://buzzpal....om/cowbook.html
I just finished watching the video. Some good parts … and some …. please wake me up.
Regarding valuation, valuation changes over time and it is normally based on a short horizon of possibilities. Otherwise I could say that Google is worth some infinite amount because in some distant future the company would be doing some infinite amount of revenue.
And at the basic level, the per share value of a public company is based on offer and demand and the schizophrenics ramblings of analysts
In the end, the value and valuation of a company is what somebody agrees to pay for it provider that the seller accepts the offer.
I still sustain that Facebook will give Google a run for their money, but they need some real productivity applications deployed there.
http://www.fabi...t-get-facebook/
I believe Facebook has lost its optimal point of selling. Even thou it is said to be worthy way more than what was asked, Facebook has many tough competitors to beat, and Google will not let this as is; look at orkut at Asia and western europe.
After watching the video from that panel I have to say that this was definitely not the best panel ever. Not by a long shot.
I found most of what was said to be trivial and obvious. Jason Calacanis was the only one who had anything insightful to say: namely that everyone else is a fan-boy.
Listen up people: The real innovators who will create the next Google/Facebook/whatever are not the people who watch or attend this conference. The next innovators are three random dudes that you’ve never heard of in a garage somewhere. So stop reading the hype. The hype is not here. It’s somewhere else where you are not.
On november 5th, say goodbye to facebook.
SELL NOW!
@13 – James: I could not agree with you more. It is the history of progress. Some guys somewhere thinking about some what if. I will write about it on my blog. Thank you for the idea for a topic.