Today at Davos, Mike just finished moderating a panel on the Next Digital Experience with Chad Hurley (YouTube), Craig Mundie (Microsoft), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Shananu Narayen (Adobe), Hamid Akhvan (T-Mobile) and Eric Clemons (Wharton). I will put up the video as soon as it is available.
The wide-ranging discussion focused on how the mobile Web is becoming increasingly important, and in many countries, the primary way people connect to the Internet. A good chunk of the panel was spent talking about the implications of sharing where you are and what you are doing all the time because mobile phones make it easier to do so. Chad Hurley noted that the rate at which YouTube is serving videos to mobile devices is growing at a faster rate than the site as a whole. Mike asked Chad Hurley how long would it be before people started using their mobile phones to upload videos to YouTube in a serious way. Hurley’s response:
It is available on some devices, but mostly you still have to connect to your computer to upload. But it will become a larger part of what we show. People on the street, sharing their thoughts and experiences.
For Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg agrees, mobile access to the Internet simply makes it easier for people to share information. Speaking like a true technologist, he thinks this is good because it will make society more efficient:
People are becoming comfortable sharing more and more because it is valuable. By sharing where you are at a certain time you might make it so you can meet up with people who are around you or get advice on what to do. This happened to me in New York before I came to Davos. I didn’t realize it was one of my friend’s birthdays. It is really useful, it creates a lot of efficiency within society. We want to push people to share more and more information, because we think people will evolve to use more and more of these [services], which is why we want to go to mobile.
There are, of course, huge privacy concerns here which every company making a push into mobile needs to be careful about, but the bigger issues the panelists agreed are simply technical. There are too many mobile devices to support. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg argued that the primitive state of the technology is holding companies back more than the privacy issues, which he thinks are manageable if you let users control who sees what. Says Zuckerberg:
The platforms aren’t there yet. With all the mobile platforms—iPhone, Blackbery, Android, the mobile web—it is difficult to develop for all of them. When the number of platforms consolidate it will become a powerful thing. And when GPS becomes more available in phones. It is not the privacy issue.
Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officer agrees “what people need is notice and choice.” He also thinks that the bigger barrier to making the mobile Web more like the one on our OCs is technical right now
You are too early in the cycle. No uniform way to get at those capabilities even within the devices. As people who write the apps will exploit it more. When there were few cameras in phones there was little photo integration. Now you can click the photo and move it to an app in a few button pushes. It is just a matter of evolution.
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I will share some of your ideas on http://www.mocom2020.com aswell.
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I agree mobility is a new way of life these days and I can see benefit of letting people know I’m near for coffee, etc., of course assuming I can control when/if to broadcast that info. I just wonder what this will do to communication between people. Will everyone be so heads down, faces melted into the mobile screens that they won’t even attempt to engage in small, friendly talk, kind of like the New York subways – or actually more like my teenage kids
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I love how they avoid answering the questions directly. If they aren’t going to share any “why” then what use are their answers. Yes, we all know that maybe someday people will upload video from their phones. Thanks for the nuanced insight, Mr. Millionaire.
A surprisingly fluffy panel discussion for Davos, complimented by softball questions and moderation. A missed opportunity to really address more pressing, controversial, and important topics in tech, mobile, and Internet. C- Mike.
Was there ANY discussion at all on how these mobile services will make any money, given than the regular computer services are not making money and the mobile screen is even less adapted to serving ads?
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It’s funny Zuckerberg talks about mobile platforms consolidating becoming a powerful thing yet his own platform stays away from OpenID.
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If the big guys wanna go “mobile” they need to talk to http://www.itsmy.com = 2 Mio. User mobile Community already. Just met the CTO this week – a scandinavian guy
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How do you “feel” like you have the largest number of HD videos?
It seems to me that you either do or you don’t.
That said, anyone know which site actually has the most HD video available for users — not worrying about overlap?
I just watched the full panel video… good stuff. Mike is a perfect moderator for these types of panels and BTW has a great sense of humor too!
No execs from MySpace on the panel I see. What a shock.
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On topic, isn’t Zuckerberg being a little hypocritical when he says that the Internet is about sharing, when he has the largest walled garden on the Internet?
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hey erick,
great work – I think this panel just had the wrong people at the table – why? Of course the US is so far behind when it comes to mobile and mososo! Now we see a panel at davos with people that are of course the elite in the internet market but when it comes to mobile I think it would make more sense to invite japanese, koreans, or even indians who really push the mobile market on this planet – this strict american view is definitely biased! sorry for these hard words from a european perspective – great work anyway!
Excellent point. I too was surprised at the panel of ‘experts’ given the well known state of mobile in the US.
It made me wonder why they didnt have a discussion about things like DoCoMo – which has been operating very successfully for years in Japan.
There’s a typo in the article, should read
“Next US Digital Experience”
Great to hear that you think so too- I would love to see more stuff from other countries-US is definitely important but asia definitely rule the mobile market-can you hear me techcrunch?
You should set up the video to use the Javascript API, so you could include time code links in your transcript, and people could jump around the video to watch the parts you are calling out.
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Wow…Same people with the same old marketing rehearsed answers..
Nothing new learned here.
Found this Interview with Shantanu Narayen, Adobe System’s CEO Live! From World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He talks about the economy and where adobe is heading in this market and also their Alliance with Apple and what he thinks of the effects of Steve Job’s health will be on Apple:
http://equedia....obe-Systems-CEO
Thanks for sharing this Mike, really enjoyed this video, that one hour flowed very smoothly, great job as moderator!
Interesting that comments continue to be about the need of platforms to upload videos and photos into YouTube, MySpace, Flickr and other social platforms. Most services provide the ability to upload via email (incl. mobile email). Some examples of mobile videos from YouTube may be found here:
http://se.youtu...mp;oq=momail.or
More info on uploading via mobile email: http://momailne...-via-email.html
Really good work Mike.
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Good points about the numerous varieties of platforms for mobile phones, but most phones can handle email – even basic consumer handsets – and most social platforms have an email upload functionality. Therefore, it is quite easy to just upload pictures and video from your mobile via email – and thus avoid the platform issue http://momailne...-via-email.html
David Zuckerberg, what a strange guy…i have the feeling, he tries to defend without being attacked, i mean in a emotional way…what is the reason, why he dont give clear smart answers?
anyway i deleted my facebook accout a few weeks ago, maybe i am to old for this, but if facebook dont care about real innovation, soon a lot of people will be too young for a closed, unsecure plattform…
for example the facebook-connect button at this blog…why i should use this, when all i need is a simple php-form…why should i spamm my non-nerd-friends with a posting on an it-blog?
it looks like facebook try to became an identity-system for the hole commercial internet, but this will not work, they should go back where they came from, to a student plattform for anouncing some parties, hard enough to earn money with this biz.
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That said, anyone know which site actually has the most HD video available for users — not worrying about overlap?