All the videos of the talks at StartupSchool '08 are online here.

- Peter Novig (Google)
- Paul Graham (YCombinator)
- Marc Andreesen (Ning)
- Mike Arrington (TechCrunch)
- Jeff Bezos (Amazon)
- David Heinemeier (37 Signals)

Is this the future of Open Social? The rumoured maka-maka...

My comment:

Quoted: People channel-surf TV, and they want to channel surf the web. It’s not necessarily true that Google will do this as well as SU has. I don’t think this devalues SU’s offer at all. Note that in order to hurt SU:
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a) The dice icon must be prominent (on by default) in the Google Toollbar. Will it be?
b) It has to deliver the same satisfying experience that SU does (or better).
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I doubt either will be true. Just because a small group at Google ships a “20%” project, it does NOT mean that the earth will shake. There are a lot of Google projects that fizzle.

Quoted: Michael Arrington is a partying kind of guy. While showing off his home in Atherton, Calif., he boasts about how he crammed 500 people into his one-acre backyard at a bash in February. Then there are the official parties, like the one he threw in mid-August at August Capital, a nearby venture firm. Arrington posted an open invitation on his website at 3 a.m. By sunrise, all 500 spots were taken; the onslaught of traffic crashed his site. "I knew it would be fast," says Arrington, who houses so many out-of-towners in his ranch home that he often isn't sure who's crashing on which mattress on which floor in which room.