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THE FRIENDSHIP PAYOFF: UNLOCKING NEW VALUE IN SOCIAL NETWORKS

Phenomenal three days at Fortune Brainstorm: TECH. The panel I sat on was called THE FRIENDSHIP PAYOFF: UNLOCKING NEW VALUE IN SOCIAL NETWORKS. Thanks to Chris Peacock from CNNMoney who did a great job at chairing the panel as well as my fellow panelists: Gina Bianchini, co-founder and CEO of Ning; Chamath Palihapitiya, vice president of user growth, mobile, and international expansion at Facebook; Deep Nishar, vice president of products at LinkedIn.

Fortune did a great job in bringing in some of the biggest decision makers today in the industry verticals of entertainment and technology. The conversation was lively, and the debates both engaging and insightful. I will definitely be going again next year.

Were you there? If so - would love to know what you thought of Brainstorm?

The Q & A - World of Warcraft

The form of this blog is Q and A - i may wax lyrical about a certain topic / issue / person close to my heart, however its a digital think tank for a reason and I like the Q & A form for this blog immensely. So the question I will leave you with today and i would love to know your thought is around very recent news release that Sam Raimi, famed director of the blockbuster Spider-Man series, has signed on to bring the forces of the Horde and the Alliance to life on the big screen in the upcoming live-action film based on the World of Warcraft universe.

This is so interesting to me as many games have tried - some successfully Peter Jacksons Lord of the Rings for example and some not so successfully - Street Fighter, Super Mario Bros - to take games to the big screen and I will be deeply interested to see how successful the transition is for such an intense, core MMORPG game. With 11.5 million subscribers - who are devoted to the cause - there is a guaranteed massive opening weekend - but will Raimi be able to deliver against what will be extremely high expectations from such a devoted fan base? Time will tell. What do you think?

Fortune Brainstorm:TECH

In Pasadena, California for Fortune Magazines Brainstorm session based around the Tech industry. Will be participating on a panel tomorrow titled The Friendship Payoff: Unlocking the new value in social networks - which i am really looking forward too. Will update you with more on this conference over the next couple of days.