{"id":1000,"date":"2012-04-26T22:49:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T20:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nekuda.co.il\/en\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2012-04-26T22:49:33","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T20:49:33","slug":"tnw-2012-notes-pics-gilad-sasson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nekuda.co.il\/en\/tnw-2012-notes-pics-gilad-sasson\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from TNW 2012 conference at Amsterdam, Mostly Be Human"},"content":{"rendered":"
I was very excited to get to Amsterdamfor my 2nd TNW<\/a> (last I was here in 2008). Missed the Pirate Dinner because of a bad connection and a lousy taxi driver (really, he needs a different job), but got to the ping pong tournament and the party.<\/div>\n

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\"Vhotel-Party-TNW\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Got back to the rented apartment and turned the alarm clock to 0730, was out by 0830, taking the beautiful road by bike to the conference, my last bike experiment was over 10 years ago and my back and other rare organs still hurt. But no worries, Amsterdam’s mornings are the cure. Got to the Conference Hall and started watching the #tnw2012 twitter feed as it slowly gets crowded (later on it got crowded with spam), all this while nodding and smiling at strangers, Patrick de Laive stopped to say hello to the attendees, very nice as always Mr @Patrick.<\/p>\n

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After a long delay and late comers (@Boris, I\u2019m coming at 10:15 tomorrow and not a minute earlier), we saw a promo movie stating amazing facts and predictions regarding the popularity of the web:\u00a0 by 2020, 5 billion people will be connected to the internet -FIVEBillion – mostly coming from emerging markets.<\/p>\n

Then was Up Piet Hein van Dam<\/a>, founder of Wakoopa who was talking about the first 8 minutes in a conference and what to do with it, then he talked about the Wakoopa solution for analysis. For more \u2013\u00a0 @pietheinvandam<\/p>\n

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Afterwards we had a presentation given by Alexis Ohanian (@kn0thing),\u00a0 co-founder of @reddit, and other funny logo companies like @breadpig and @thehipmunk. Alexis was talking about making exciting things for users, and doing things like you give a damn and care about and not because you have to (it wasn\u2019t the last time this issue broke up that day), you need to do exciting things for the users, Alexis was talking about Zappos success case study and the way they treat customers with feedbacks that go beyond expectations. Very good points and interesting approach.<\/p>\n

Then Dagan Cohen<\/a>\u00a0 was up (he’s obviously not on twitter @dagancohen) .<\/p>\n

4 Billion videos (!) are being watched on youtube daily, 60 hours of films are uploaded every minute\u2026 That’s a lot to watch, no time to waste because you must be missing something, understood?
\nDagan: Anything that can be video will be video, Upload Cinema takes the best of the web and put it in Cinema, currently running at a dozen of Holland theaters and coming soon to other cities in Europe. Nice idea, Good Luck!<\/p>\n

\"Dagan<\/a>\"Holywood-youtube-sign\"<\/a>\"-Dagan-Samples\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Took a photo of Hilary Mason (this one<\/a> , not the other one<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Now I think I made my mistake when I went to the Green Room and didn’t go earlier or stuck to the Blue one. I still wonder; I saw only the ending lines of Matt Barrie<\/a>\u00a0but got a good vibe and energy from the crowd, then sat and watched the first startup Rally:<\/p>\n