The User-Generated, Real-Time Web - Steve Jurvetson

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/20/The_Churchill_Clubs_Top_Ten_Tech_Trends

Steve Jurvetson, of venture capital group Draper Fisher Jurvetson, says that user-generated content is more important than centralized media. Jurvetson also sees the rising popularity of real-time search (a la Twitter) trumping that of Google's web crawling and indexing method.

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The industry's leading visionaries rate and debate what technology trends will emerge during the year ahead.

Steve Jurvetson, Vinod Khosla, Joe Schoendorf, Ram Shriram, and Ann Winblad are among the speakers. - Churchill Club

Steve Jurvetson is a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, a leading venture capital firm with affiliate offices around the world. He was the founding VC investor in Hotmail (MSFT), Interwoven (IWOV), and Kana (KANA). He also led the firm's investments in Tradex and Cyras, acquired for $8 billion. Current Board positions include Synthetic Genomics, SpaceX, NeoPhotonics, and Wowd. Previously, Steve was an R&D Engineer at Hewlett-Packard, where seven of his communications chip designs were fabricated. His prior technical experience also includes programming, materials science research (TEM atomic imaging of GaAs), and computer design at HP's PC Division, the Center for Materials Research, and Mostek. He has also worked in product marketing at Apple and NeXT Software.

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[mozartguerrier]

tottally agree, it seems the focus is always on how companies can take "advantage" of user generated content instead of tips for users to better themselves.

[joewilder]

The focus of this talk seemed to be on marketing and how the web can best be monetized. It's important for making money, but equally important is how truly interesting human experiences can be effectively exchanged. Perhaps users should be tutored on how to present themselves and when to post information globally and also when to communicate on a more personal level. My feeling is that most communication should be person to person and only occasionally broadcast widely.

[nfcpro]

I like Steve, he's a sharp guy and talks sense, but ultimately he talks the obvious, synergy, disruptive technologies, cross pollination, thinking at the edge... it's those ideas that are difficult!

[sugarpuddin88]

Nothing too enlightening here!

For decades everyone has known, (or should have known), the importance of "WEB Content"

Everyone knows people want to hear themselves talk, so you just give them a forum to sound off to enhance Web Content

DUH!

[tommyk77]

Why is the first rating just 1 star?