Media in Transition Conference 2007 Successful Internet Business - Web 2 and Social Media

Since last year the Internet is again on the front page ofnewspapers. Five years trailing the financial disaster around the Dot-Com Crash andthe web is back to life again. Social Media Sites, or so-called Web 2.0 sites, suchas Youtube, Facebook and MySpace, are allowing people to share videos, photos, geoinformation, personal data, ratings and recommendations. Time magazine rightfullydeclares the person of the year 2006 as You! .

Search engines and web directories are playing catch-up with all this user-generated content . Traditional media channels are experiencing loss of marketshare to Online services. Advertisers are discussing the effectiveness of Online adson user-generated content pages, which are mostly amateurish personal pages. Theincreasing power of users and their interactive preferences is driving structuralchange in the media landscape.

The international Media in Transition Conference has an interdisciplinary approach,featuring media-pros, technologists and strategists, and provides the facts foreffective business on the Internet. Practical examples are delivered by case studiesin diverse areas such as: media technology, user-generated content, digital rights,digital distribution, Online advertisement, global marketing.

The Media in Transition Conference invited successful Internet entrepreneurs, topbloggers and strategists from UK, USA and Europe for two days in Munich, Germany, todiscuss the current state-of-the-art topics and business strategies on the web:

Martin Stiksel, founder of Last.fm , Online Social Network around music thepower 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 2.0and 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 Internetservices 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 thecurrent state-of-the-art media innovations, communication and business models, aswell as distribution methods used on the Internet today. Under the slogan fromexperts for experts , the conference has a very compact format and furtherintroduces extensive networking possibilities for contacting and partnering. Munich,as Germany's media, technology and financial center, offers all the amenities of aglobal business meeting place and is experienced at providing for internationalguests.

Find out more about Media in Transition 2007 at www.mediaintransition.com

The conference cost for both days is 890, - Euro. Daily tickets are sold for under490, - Euro.Early bird registration (15% discount) is available until July 16th, 2007.

Source: Express-Press-Release.com

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