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Boston roundtable

Coming back from the Silicon Valley, Jonathan and I have taken the time to stop at Boston, a beautiful city of red bricks and snow (it was February, indeed).

Thanks to Pascal Marmier, Thomas Bühler, and André Albrecht, a roundtable was organized at Swissnex Boston on February 26th:

virtual worlds and social networks: what’s next?

This roundtable gathered several very interesting people from web 2.0 and virtual worlds, who had the courage to wake up early in the cold morning to be at Swissnex at 8am. Thanks again!

Many important questions were discussed, for which there is unfortunately no right answer, but that will need to be adressed at some point.

• Is online anonymity going to completely disappear over the next years? With social networks today, more and more people speak the truth about themselves, but it is often not the case in virtual worlds.

• Are virtual worlds going to merge somehow with social networks ? Two applications, same market? Is not meeting new people the main goal of both media in the end?

• How are social networks going to make big money? Mmmmh… This one is a good one. I let you think about it :)