Media in Transition Conference 2007

On September 12th- 13th the international „Media in Transition Conference 2007“ opens its doors. The focus of the conference is the structural transition in the media industry. The Media in Transition Conference features several of the top Web tools and their lead developers and founders: the Web Application Framework Django, a Web 2.0 framework quoted as the big Ruby on Rails competitor in the open source world and used mostly in professional news organizations – Washington Post, Toronto Life, World Online, Scripps Media Group; the Ajax browser technology, a RIA (Rich Internet

Application) technique, used prominently by Google Mail, Maps and represented at the Media in Transition Conference through Pageflakes Inc.; and the Mozilla Firefox Platform, a promising RIA technique, which allows for desktop-like applications that work off-line as well, and pioneered at Joost, Songbird and AllPeers. The Media in Transition Conference has invited speakers from diverse backgrounds, providing insight on how the social media revolution is being built:

• Martin Stiksel, founder of “Last.fm”, Online Social Network around Music – the power of recommendations and data mining with user preferences • Lorenz Bogaert, founder and CEO of Netlog – Online Social Networks in Europe • Jeremy Geelan, founder and publisher of the Social Computing Magazine - Web 2.0 and Social Media trends for business and society • Christoph Janz, founder of Pageflakes - aggregating user information • John Buckman, Creative Commons - digital rights in the era of user-generated content •Adrian Holovaty, creator of Django – making data fit for the web Simon Willison, co-creator of Django – OpenID, single sign-on for all Internet services • Matthew Gertner, founder of AllPeers, - P2P filesharing on the Firefox Platform • Les Ottolenghi, founder of Intent Media - how to capitalize on P2P traffic The Media in Transition Conference 2007 offers a comprehensive overview of the current state-of-the-art social media innovations, communication and business models, as well as distribution methods used on the Internet today. Under the slogan “from experts for experts“, the conference has a very compact format and further introduces extensive networking possibilities for contacting and partnering. Munich, as Germany's media, technology and financial center, offers all the amenities of a global business meeting place and is experienced at providing for international guests. The conference cost for both days is 890, - Euro. Daily tickets are sold for under 490, - Euro. Early bird registration (15% discount) is available until July 16th, 2007. Media contact: Ms Oezlem Guenay