Le Web 3, “The social media event of the year” wrapped up today, and the predicted buzz in the blogosphere show signs of a postive conference.
With liveblogs and microblogs capturing the action in near real-time, and plenty of video being uploaded, the event was one where what the speakers said echoed far beyond the conference hall walls.
While our friends over at Shiny Media blog TechDigest took a light-hearted look at the interview between Digg founder Kevin Rose and Business Week’s Sarah Lacy; TechCrunch posted on Mahalo, the human-powered search engine, adding social networking functionality.
Le Web 3 has become a social media star spotting event, with Robert Scoble taking centre stage for large portions of the time, and Skype founder Janus Friis talking about the much-lauded Joost internet-video service. However, there’s also room for some of the internet’s “unknowns” to get involved, with the start-up competition, which involves pitching to a judging panel including VCs and media.
Web 2.0 new blog Profy has a round-up of the winners, reinforcing some of Shiny Red’s thoughts on what 2008 has in store. The mobile internet and continued growth of video online are set to be huge next year, and two of the selected winners - PLYMedia and Goojet - will hope to make the most of these trends with their specialised technology in these areas.
