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Day two of Europe’s largest tech conference, Loic Le Meur’s Le Web 10 kicks off today in a couple minutes. Le Web brings in over 3,000 attendees from 26 countries worldwide and today’s talks include such notables as Zynga’s David Ko, Automattic’s Matt Mullenweg and Toni Schneider and 500 Startup’s Dave McClure. The event will be live streamed in its entirety courtesy of Ustream and you can watch the video above and here.

DAY 2 – DEC 9, 2010 – Pullman PLENARY ROOM

08h00 – Welcome Buffet Breakfast

09h00 – Welcome Back

Geraldine & Loïc Le Meur, LeWeb Founders

09h05

“Wisdom of Crowds”

Yossi Vardi, Investor & Entrepreneur

Money Talks

09h25 – Money Roundtable

Moderated by: Travis Kalanick, Entrepreneur & Angel Investor

Philippe Botteri, Vice President, Bessemer Venture Partners

Jeff Clavier, Founder & Managing Partner, SoftTech VC

Bernard Liautaud, Partner, Balderton Capital

Barry E. Silbert, CEO & Founder, SecondMarket, Inc.

09h55 – Thomas H. Glocer, CEO, Thomson Reuters

Q&A with Jeff Clavier, Founder & Managing Partner, SoftTech VC

10h25 – Alexander Tamas, Partner, DST International

Q&A with Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb

10h45 – From a Simple Idea to a Global Success

Phil Libin, CEO, Evernote

Q&A with Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb

Browsing the Platforms

11h00 – Matt Mullenweg, Founder and Toni Schneider, CEO, Automattic

Q&A with Alexia Tsotsis, Writer, TechCrunch

11h20 – Mitchell Baker, Chairperson, Mozilla Foundation

Q&A with Robert Scoble, American Blogger, Tech Evangelist & Author

11h50 – Keynote

David Ko, SVP of Mobile, Zynga

Q&A with MG Siegler, Writer, TechCrunch

Making a Difference…..

12h10 – Shai Agassi, Founder & CEO, Better Place

12h30 – Jack D. Hidary, Chairman, SmartTransportation.org

12h50 – Mel Young, Co-Founder, Homeless World Cup

13h10 – 14h30 – LUNCH BREAK

Tech & Innovation

14h30 – Thought Controlled Computing

Ariel Garten, CEO, Interaxon

14h50 – Salim Ismail, Executive Director, Singularity University

15h05 – Henri Seydoux, Founder & CEO, Parrot

Q&A with Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb

Start-Up Competition Finals

15h25 – Introduction

David Hornik, General Partner, August Capital

15h30 – Start-Up Competition Finals

Hosted by Michael Arrington and David Hornik

3 companies, 9 minutes total each (5’demo & 4’ Q&A)

Featuring Panel of Judges:

Jean-David Blanc, Entrepreneur/Business Angel (Founder of AlloCine)

Brent Hoberman, Founder & Executive Chairman, mydeco

Xavier Niel, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors & Chief Strategy Officer, Iliad

Jacques-Antoine Granjon, Founder & CEO, Ventes-Privee

Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet, Founder & CEO, PriceMinister

16h20 – Panel How to get acquired?

Moderated by: Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb

Anil Hansjee, Head of Corporate Development, Google EMEA

Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet, Founder & CEO, PriceMinister

Fritz Lanman, Senior Director, Corporate Strategy, Microsoft Corporation

16h50 – Startup Competition Awards Ceremony

17h05 – Ustream Contest Announcement powered by BuddyMedia

John Ham, Founder, Ustream

Erinn Marzo, Vice President, Strategic Brand Partnerships, Buddy Media

17h15 – Keynote

Dave McClure, Startup Investor & Troublemaker

17h30 – Keynote

Social Media And Big Business: Trends for 2011

A forward looking view by industry analyst Jeremiah Owyang, partner at Altimeter Group based off recent research on how large global brands are organizing, and spending on social media.

Jeremiah Owyang, Industry Analyst and Partner, Altimeter Group

17h45 – Keynote

Howard Lindzon, Co-founder & CEO, Stocktwits.com and Founder, Social Leverage

18h00-18h05

“The Network: reaching the parts other network providers have been unable to reach”

Gary Shainberg, Vice President, Global Technology & Innovation Support, BT Plc.

18h05 – Gary Vaynerchuk, Host, Wine Library TV, Author, CrushIT,

Q&A with the LeWeb participants and Loic Le Meur, Founder, LeWeb

18h35 – Closing Remarks, Geraldine & Loic Le Meur, LeWeb Founders

We are all obsessed with sites like Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin at the moment but rewind a few years to when the term Web 2.0 first popped up and a whole host of different sites were the hot young startups destined for great things.

It’s amazing what a couple of years do though because as we can see below, some of the biggest sites from the “Web 2.0 generation” are either on a massive decline, facing huge competition or about to be closed down. There’s a good lesson here to highlight; how the hype cycle around websites and services can come and go and what was once lauded and destined for great things can within a couple of years shut down and be abandoned…

Delicious

One of the most popular and useful sites of the Web 2.0 era, this massively practical bookmarking tool was used by many people to keep track of content that they found online. Yahoo bought the site at its peak but users have started to drop off (the graph below might not be reflective as many people use browser plugins etc) and just this week there was speculation that Yahoo are pretty much going to be killing off the site much to the amazement of some of the loyal user base who use it on a daily basis. Fortunately that isn’t the case but the company is looking to sell.

Digg

Possibly the highest profile of all the casualties given it’s rise to fame, the high valuations it received and the online celebrity of its founder Kevin Rose. The traffic had started to stagnate and fall last year but the downturn really accelerated this year when the returning Rose tried to introduce a whole host of new features to try and compete with Facebook and Twitter but those changes backfired spectacularly by alienating the loyal community and the site is shipping users as fast as they once gained them.

Flickr

I wouldn’t say Flickr is in chance of dying nor has it’d downturn been as marked as the other sites on the list but there is no doubt that it is under pressure from a whole host of new photo sharing sites. Flickr is still massively popular but the rise of Twitter and sharing sites like Twitpic, Yfrog and newer apps like Instagram are certainly making people share photos in a whole new way.

Myspace

It’s amazing to think that just over a year ago Myspace were still competing directly with Facebook as one of the world’s biggest social networks but now the decline is so significant that Myspace has had to redesign their entire site and allow you to use Facebook connect to make the site more social. The site has been re-positioned to focus on content but it’ll never be the force it once was and you shouldn’t be surprised if you hear it’s closing down sometime next year.

Bebo

Not as massive around the entire world as it was in Europe and some other markets but people did think the site had enough potential for AOL to pay $850 million for it. Since then the users have pretty much left it and AOL were trying to give it away for free to anybody who would take it. The latest valuation was somewhere around the $20 million mark and you can expect Bebo to fizzle out completely pretty soon I reckon.

What Does All This mean?

It means that you shouldn’t hedge all your bets when building up social media profiles or community within a site. Even though you are getting great results or find a site massively useful at the moment doesn’t mean that in a couple of years it will be the same site. Trends come and go faster than ever on the Internet and sites that you one couldn’t live without are obsolete within a couple of years. I just cringe at some of the money brands poured in to the likes of Bebo to try and promote their products and grow an audience and what are they left with now that Bebo is in a digital cemetery? There are probably sites out there that we all use and love on a daily basis which in a couple of years will be closing their doors and it’s important to just be mindful of that.

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