A Conversation with Marc Andreessen
Date: Thursday, April 24
Time: 9:10 - 9:40AM
Location: Ballroom - 3rd Level
Track: Keynote
Tags Novice, KEYNOTE
Presented by Marc Andreessen (Ning), John Battelle (Federated Media Publishing). More information coming soon
Comments
John (as moderator) should go a bit easy on leading questions, particularly on Microsoft bashing - Really, it's time to get past that!
I agree with Don - web 1.0 history is known - spend more time on what's coming - that's why we're here and what we want to hear from Marc!
History is important because we are sitting on the sholders of giants and Marc is one of these giants . Great talk Marc !
I enjoyed hearing the history portion, especially from the perspective of an industry thought leader. Great talk!
Entertaining... I did not learn much from the Web 1.0 History... some of the anecdotes might have been more fun...
I would love to have heard about his vision beside Social Network. Social networks are great, but there's plenty of other cool stuff out there...
It's always great to hear Marc talk and I liked the Q/A forum--Jeez, John sounds like Dick Cavett LOL. I had Mosaic within 6 months of it's introduction in 1993 and it changed the way I directed my career in software development and entertainment. With so many n00bs in the group it's good to have some history and see where this guy wants to go.
As with the others I'm a fan of the olden days, but I was there. I would have appreciated more insight into more practical applications of the open concept. Marc is a good speaker and has great concepts and knowledge, I wanted more.
marc is always interesting to hear talk. being online since 1990, it's fun for a short walk down memory lane.
The history review made it pretty scary to think back on where we were 10-15 years ago. Some of us don't care to remember? (Sorry, I'm the optimist always looking forward). I also didn't know that about the original 3 companies. Neat.
Very, very emotional to have seen Marc live this morning. I remember seing him back in 1996 at a Netscape Developers Conference in NYC (when we were young and slim :-). He definitely was a model for me during those crazy years. Not so sure about this Ning thing though. Anyway, great talk, great insights, great analysis. And I really do think that the historical perspective should never be forgotten, never.
I didn't think that this would be anywhere near as interesting as it turned out to be. Very insightful, especially with respect to business models and cycles in the context of the history of the commercial web.
Good use of conversational style for a keynote. Seemed like a late night talk show with an engaging guest. Andreesen seemed gracious, engaging. Liked his respectful, big-hearted comments about microsoft, even though the moderator seemed to want to bait him into mud-slinging.
Marc's comments were interesting and help put what's happening today into perspective. It really was a simpler time back when Netscape was around. I'm not sure why Battelle had to be there trying to pick a fight. I'd much rather have seen Tim O'Reilly talking with Marc.
Interesting and enjoyable to watch and listen to Andressen reminisce and sharing his vast knowledge.
A great conversation, although a little on the conservative side. The history of the web was a little repetitive, considering the audience. Ning is a great company and I wish they'd spent a little more time discussing its implications. It felt like the conversation we just getting some momentum when the time was up.
Spent way too much time on Web 1.0 history, I think everybody here knows all about that story. I wish they would focus on some newer trends...