Kara Visits DLD in Germany: The Naomi Campbell Edition
by Kara Swisher
Posted on January 23, 2008 at 12:03 AM PT
Why was supermodel Naomi Campbell suddenly standing right next to German publisher Hubert Burda at the final lunch for his company’s DLD–Digital, Life, Design–conference in Munich yesterday?
I have no idea, nor do I know why Burda broke out into song either–how much do you have to love a media mogul willing to do that?
But I got it all on video and a whole lot more on the last day of the pre-Davos European gathering focused on digital issues and innovation.
(And here is a post by European serial entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky, who apparently thinks his video shows that Accel Partners’ Simon Levene and I were not impressed enough by Campbell.)
In any case, DLD’s motto was: “Uploading the 21st Century.” And while it did not quite do that, there were definitely a lot of interesting moments I captured for your viewing pleasure.
Along with Campbell (who was supposed to appear on a panel on Africa, but did not) and a singing Burda, the video features clips from two sessions today.
The first was titled “Exploding Media” and included: pundit Clay Shirky riffing on flash mobs; a very funny clip of kids talking about television (made by Technorati’s Peter Hirshberg); Google’s Marissa Mayer noting that Google will still not be in the content business; Yahoo’s Bradley Horowitz discussing Yahoo’s plans to de-focus on making original content; and BuzzMachine blogger Jeff Jarvis advising old media to just ask WWGD? (What would Google do?).
Another session on the video features the founders of the genetics-focused social-networking company 23andMe–Anne Wojcicki, Linda Avey and Esther Dyson–answering questions about fears people have about learning too much about DNA.
Here is the video (and now I am off to Hamburg to visit Xing, a business social-networking company):
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Comments
Distribution is the sine qua non of content. The better and more distributed, the better. The network IS the computer, ala Sun Micro. What would be cool is one of these social networking sites picked up everyone dot net. Great brand potential. Speaking of video, the limiting factor still is bandwidth with video. Once we solve that, video content will really take off. I hear Sun is working on something along those lines. We shall see. Bubble part deux? Part trois?
Posted by rod sandcones at January 23rd, 2008 at 12:01 pmRod:
We’re in Bubble Part Deux (or, since I am in Germany, Zwei!) and headed into Trois (Drei!).
Posted by Kara Swisher at January 24th, 2008 at 2:14 am