eComm conference: The conversation is entering the mobile realm - CNET
Summary
I caught a few of the later sessions today at the Emerging Communications (eComm) conference in Mountain View, and the program was pretty good. The rigorously enforced commitment to micro-formats--a mix of five-minute lightning talks, 15-minute sessions, and 20-minute keynotes--worked out well: The presenters were forced to condense their thoughts to the core, and a wide range of viewpoints could be heard during the course of the day. He managed to squeeze a lot of numbers into his blitz pitch: 75,000,000 videos on YouTube; 100,000,000 existing blogs; 500,000 users on Twitter (he wasnt sure if thats accurate; Im not either). In this vein, Sam Aparicio from Angel.com, in his talk on "Fixing Group Communication," presented some inspiring riffs on the "social phone." From OpenID to hCard parsing to Mobile OAuth to DiSo (distributed social networks), and OpenSocial--the conversation will be televised, telephoned, teleconferenced, and it will just have one name.