The Audience is the Medium: Video 2.0 & Online Communities

Liz Gannes is Editor of NewTeeVee, launched in December 2006 as a dedicated outlet for the online video industry coverage. She is also a staff writer at GigaOM.com.

Liz has built NewTeeVee to be the must-read chronicle of the web video revolution, developing a community of readers for events such as the NewTeeVee Pier Screenings and now NewTeeVee Live. She speaks often about video at conferences such as Web 2.0, the Web Video Summit, and Streaming Media West. Prior to GigaOM, she wrote for the Red Herring.

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A well-known serial French entrepreneur who has created and sold 4 Internet startups, Loïc also is a blogger and vlogger. His blog is #1 in France, read by more than 250,000 unique visitors per month, and he has posted hundreds of video podcasts including the only podcast with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

After selling his last company, Ublog, to SixApart in 2003, Loic served as Executive VP, EMEA for the company until 2007. He left SixApart in the spring of 2007 to join President Sarkozy’s campaign team advising on the Internet, gathering a network of 1000 bloggers for Sarkozy and launching the Second Life Sarkozy Island.

Loïc is still honorary Chairman at Six Apart, the leading weblog software company and investor in tens of startups such as LinkedIn and Technorati. He also organizes one of Europe’s largest technology events, LeWeb3, that attracted close to 2,000 participants from 30 countries in 2007. This unique conference gathers Internet entrepreneurs, visionaries and politicians to discuss the impact of technology and the Internet on society and has featured renowned speakers lsuch as Nobel Prize Winner Shimon Peres and designer Philippe Starck.

Prior to Ublog, Loïc’s other companies included: RapidSite France, the first shared Web hosting company that launched in 1997 and was sold to France Telecom; and B2L, one of the first Web agencies launched in France in 1996, with clients including Chanel, 20th Century Fox, and Mars, and which was sold to BBDO, a leading advertising group.

A graduate of France’s #1 business school, HEC, Loïc is also a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. He launched the WEF blog in 2004 and has been advising and blogging for the Forum since then.

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Mark Goldenson, CEO, has eight years of experience in launching internet services. Mark was a product manager at PayPal where he managed high-volume user flows such as registration and PayPal’s in-house CRM for 1,300 service agents. Mark previously co-founded and was COO of Woosh, a startup that created back-end integrated storefronts for small businesses. Woosh was a finalist in the 1998 Stanford E-Challenge and raised $21 million in funding. Mark also co-founded the Stanford Bazaar, a local online marketplace acquired by Stanford, and founded the Stanford Squash Team, home to national champion Lily Lorentzen and world champion coach Mark Talbott. Mark also founded a Stanford philosophy club and researched brain imaging of lucid dreams for four years in the Stanford Psychophysiology Laboratory. Mark has completed coursework for a B.A. in Human Biology and a minor in Symbolic Systems from Stanford.

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John Ham is founder of Ustream.TV, a platform that enables anyone with a camera and an Internet connection to broadcast live interactive video to a global audience. Prior to founding Ustream, Mr. Ham served as the aide-de-camp to the 19TSC Commanding General in South Korea. Mr. Ham also completed five years of active duty in the United States Army, serving in various capacities around the world. Mr. Ham is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and holds dual degrees in engineering and business.

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