interactivity

Jeff Housenbold, the CEO of Shutterfly, speaking at the Piper Jaffray Global Internet Summit in Laguna Beach… He asked the audience how many of us had digital cameras, so I whipped mine out to take his picture, and he paused to wave for the shot.

Paul Manca from Ingenio discussed the economics of their pay-per-call platform (a call is 10-20x the value of a click).

Richard Rosenblatt, the CEO of Intermix (MySpace.com), said that when a game like Tetris gets a social network overlay, people spend 8x as much time on the game.

Andrew Anker from Six Apart was the most composed and cool speaker – he continued without even a stutter as a 4.9 earthquake rippled through the audience.