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For an opening session focusing on eeeevil on the web, it proved to be rather quiet. I think everybody was knackered, thanks to the early start...

Laurent Haug of LIFT kicked things off by asking if there is a thirst for evil on the net?

"It's another form of human expression - prone to human frailty like any other conduit," said Chris Alden, CEO of Six Apart. The internet can have a distancing effect on communication and anonymity brings out the ruder aspects of human natures. "You have more interesting conversations when you have a sense of identity."

Jaewoong Lee of Daum Communications pointed out that there are 14m Koreans using internet. 99% of young people use it for more than an hour a day. And the privacy problem is bigger for users, leading to very, very few people writing bad comments. Why? There's a history of identity in each site, and that's driven by the users not the government.

Dan Rose of Facebook got given something of a rough ride. The social network has been on the recieving end of some bad publicity around privacy issues of late. His response to behaviour concerns? "50% of users come every day - that's true now and was true in the early days," he said. "It's not a social network, it's 50k+ individual networks. and so people behave on Facebook as they would in real world."

Doc Searls gave what turned into a rapid fire presentation about 11 ideas he had about the future of the web. Here they are, in their abbreviated glory:

1. Bullshit will lose leveredge - advertising does not scale to the sky
2. Advertising as we know it will die - Google does not get irony or metaphor
3. Herding people into walled gardens and guessing about what makes them social will seem absurd - and it already is
4. We'll realize that the most valuable producers are what used to be called consumers
5. The value chain will be replaced by the value constellation
6. What's your business model will no longer be asked of everything - not everything is a business, something is just useful.
7. We'll make money by maximising "because effects"
8. Markets will be understood in terms of relations
9. The Live web is more important than Web X.n
10. We will marry the Live Web to the value constellation. The individual is the real platfom
11. We'll be able to manage vendors at least as well as they manage us

Just as I did last year, I've come back from Le Web 3 with a few unfinished posts sitting in ecto. Unlike last year, I'm actually going to get them up on the blog this year.

So get ready for some cool, week-old stuff.

Liveblogging: I lose.

Art & Laptops @ Le Web 3 '07, originally uploaded by Adam Tinworth.

I'm in the process of uploading all my photos from Paris to Flickr. It'll take me a few days to get through them all, but you can enjoy the 50-odd that are already up in my Le Web 3 '07 Flickr set.

Tags are open for editing, if anyone feels like adding relevant ones.

The presentation that most people have mentioned to me as changing the way they think about something was Joi Ito's talk on gaming. Me? I loved it, but then the talk was about World of Warcraft, and I'm a player. ("Hi, my name's Adam Tinworth and I'm a night elf druid").

Ito started of with a crowd-pleasing assault on the perception of gaming in society as a whole.

"We still say 'addicted to games'," he said. "We don't say 'addicted to church' if people go to church every week."

He's quite right - it's a non-useful way of viewing the situation. It's rooted, he explained, in the way we use language around the internet, at least in the English-speaking world. We have this word "cyberspace", which implies a separation between the online world and the "real" world. We have "real" friends and "virtual" friends.

"For kids the internet is ubiquitous. It's not something you log into or out of," said Ito. And, to them, gaming is certainly not the "masturbation-like activity" many adults seem to view it as. For one thing, people are often interacting with existing friends in the game...

So what is it?

Robert Scoble has just confirmed the TechCrunch story that he's leaving PodTech.

During the question and answers section of the video session he was challenged on the story, and confessed that he's leaving PodTech in January.

He wouldn't confirm that he was joining Fast Company Company, but did say that it was one of the offers on the table, but as it wasn't signed yet, he couldn't say for sure.