Backstage from the next conference in Hamburg (day one)
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| 11:48 UK time, Tuesday, 5 May 2009
´óÏó´«Ã½ Backstage has been asked to give two talks at the . The best way to keep a breast of what's happening is to follow , but expect a full post later in the week.
Next09 is a strange mix of business people and geeky bloggers. The layout, size and tone is closer to a future of webapps that anything else. This year the audience was as high as 1300 for some of the keynotes. The event kicked off in fine style with a couple of keynotes. The Great Restructuring by Jeff Jarvis and Capitalism 2.0 by Umair Haque. Both very well given presentations worthy of there keynote statuses. After a coffee break Andrew Keen on Digital Vertigo - Inequality, Anxiety and Isolation in the Social Media Age. Andrew Keen very well known for his views on social media put most people on the back foot as he called out the Wired magazine reading, web 2.0 blogging crowd for being too evangelical. And that debate ran through the rest of the keynotes and twitters till the very end.
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