No I wasn't at Web 2.0. Fernando pointed out this link a few days ago and commented I don't know where to start awarding cluelessness medals.
If you want to get a sense of what went on, listen to this mp3 of the panel discussion.
Fernando is absolutely right...
There are going to be some real train wrecks here. Most of these guys just don't get it. Among other things they really need to worry about their user base and what features and services mean. There is little indication they have.
People would do well to ponder Andrew's words:
Voice is the killer app, but that does not imply it is going to continue generating bountiful revenues for long. It will become just another application riding on top of a broadband connection (wireless or wireline, mostly wireless).There will nothing unusual about this evolution. Just think about email, which is still the "killer app" of the Internet. It comes for free with your Internet account, paid for by your subscription fee, and Yahoo and now also Google are eager to offer it to you totally for free. But nobody dares neglect email, and attempts are made constantly to enhance it. And that is the main lesson for voice.
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