Fred Cavazza

Biography - Blog

Interview date: 09/03/07

Location: Paris

Following short summaries of Fred answers:

How have you felt the web evolution since 1990 ? What do you think about web 2.0 ?

In fact fred didn't notice many big changes on the web. eBay and amazone has always been web 2.0 applications. eBay used user rating and amazone used "Customers who bought this item also bought".His point is the UGC (User Generated Content) has grown up during last two years. And of course more and more web site take care of their community.

What do you think about the netvibes Widget Universal API and OpenID ? What is the future of widgets ?

He thinks that the W3C widget working draft is a great oportunity and there are many things to do in term of advertising. He doesn't think that widget is the future of the web, but it might be part of it.

Do you know the semantic web ?

He thinks that microformats are currently more mature than semantic web.

What is the future of advertising on internet ?

Niches. And vertical portals are niches.

What do you think about the youtube censurship ?

It said that it is just the beginning because Viacom and Newscorp are intenting legal proceeding against youtube. Indeed Youtube hold a lot of contents under copyright.

Humanitarian web ?

Gapminder.com, Microfinance, ...