Roger McNamee: Speech on future of the web, and high tech

Monday, July 25th, 2011 | Business | by Sean Walther

I’m usually not a fan of the opinions of investors, but I think Roger McNamee, of Elevation Partners, hits on quite few good points. Business Insider has some good bullets from the video, but watch the video:

Some ideas I agree with/find intersting in the video include:

Shift in search technology requirements
The greater focus on HTML5
Why indexed search is becoming less important
Social Media startups are useless, they should be just assumed functionality by now
Microsoft has lost it’s control over internet connected devices

I think this is a must see for anyone involved in the web.

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