This was a little strange: People paying like DKK20.000 to come to this conference were acting like teenagers at a pussycat dolls concert pushing to get front row seats to this conversation between John Batelle and Mark Zuckerberg. I got a great center spot on the fourth row :). Yes I’m an idiot - I know.

Was it interesting then? Sure. It’s always funny to see history repeating itself like this. I mean this youngster is a 99,9% copy of Bill Gates 25 years back! Besides that Mark is not a big speaker. Not a charismatic superstar … but he’s professional like hell! If it was me today (or at 24) I would be trying so HARD to impress. Not this young guy. Instead he chose to wear beach sandals and generally a very relaxed attitude.

To all you Facebook developers out there according to Mark a lot of new stuff will be added to the “Platform” soon - together with an advertising platform competing with Google/Yahoo/MSN. The last part he didn’t say explicitly, but he hinted that something big - advertising-wise - will happen in 3 months from now. That must be it!?

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