LIFT08

LIFT08 is already over for more than a week. But as I spent most of that week coughing and sneezing, I couldn't write about it earlier. It was once again well worth the trip - lots of interesting people & conversations, lots of interesting subjects... far beyond Web 2.0 & Co... Luckily most of the presentations plus many interviews from various participants are available online on a website from a local TV station: Nouvo.ch.

Here the usual list of my personal favorites:

• Kevin Marks from Google on Open Social as a common framework for building social applications.
• Holm Friebe + Philipp Albers on new forms of cooperation and collaborative work.
• Noel Hidalgo on the Luck of Seven - his open source, seven month journey around the world documenting free culture, social innovators & global change.
• ...and last but not least Kevin Warwick - the "crazy" scientist on becoming a cyborg !?

All in all a great experience! Many thanks to Laurent & the whole LIFT team for three inspiring days!! Looking forward to LIFT09...

Getting lifted at Geneva

I am currently at this years LIFT conference in Geneva, Switzerland...



Laurent and the others from the LIFT team have put together a great event! Peferctly organized, lot's of interesting people in good mood and an abundance of power outlets... What more can you ask for... ;-)

Right now, John Buckman is presenting his company: Magnatunes - a record label, which is not evil; a record label 2.0, so to say. Looks really interesting. I heard about Magnatunes some time ago, when everybody was buzzing about the fact that they let people, who what do buy a CD from them, choose how much they have to pay for it. They suggest a price of 8 US$ per CD, but you can pick a personal price between 5 and 18 US$. So, how much do they get on average per CD? What do you think? No, not 5 $, but 8,20 $ - more than they ask for!

Pretty efficient pricing, won't you say?