MindTrek Newsletter 9/2009

CHRIS MESSINA: "IDENTITY IS THE PLATFORM"

We are proud and happy to let you know that Mr. Chris Messina is one of the keynote speakers of this year’s conference. Here’s the description of his speech in his own words:

“Much has been made of Twitter and Facebook's successes, and of the power of their technology platforms. But there is a bigger story here about what's happening to the web: it's becoming social and this changes everything.”

Chris Messina co-founded the Flock web browser and led the community marketing of Firefox. He also co-founded San Francisco-based Citizen Space and started the coworking and BarCamp communities. He was named one of the Digital Utopians and People Who Populate Web 2.0 by the San Francisco Chronicle.

He is board member of the OpenID and Open Web Foundations, and a frequent speaker at technology conferences such as Web 2.0 Expo. He is quoted in The New York Times, Business Week, LA Times, MIT Technology Review and Wired. Chris received the 2008 Google Open Source Award in recognition for his work advancing technology initiatives such as OpenID, Oauth, Activity Streams and microformats.

“How does Chris Messina always manage to have the best ideas about the most interesting work two years before the rest of us? I have no idea and I don't care. The ability to harness the future for the benefit of others and not simply yourself? That's a cowboy I want to ride with.” —Kevin Smokler, CEO of Booktour

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CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

The conference programme available at http://www.mindtrek.org/2009/programme

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