Monica Lam (Stanford University) - Mobile Can Disrupt Social

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🗓️ 17 April 2013

⏱️ 61 minutes

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MobiSocial Founder and Stanford Computer Science Professor Monica Lam offers a compelling case for why mobile can disrupt the social space to create genuine and frictionless experiences. Lam discusses the importance of cross-platform capability and the high potential for open, non-proprietary systems for communication.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series,
0:07.0	brought to you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.0	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eCORner.
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0:17.0	Today we have a very special and very interesting guest, Monica Lamb.
0:22.6	Monica is a professor in the Department of CS, but she's also a serial entrepreneur.
0:28.6	In fact, she does both at the same time.
0:30.6	She teaches here and has started three different companies.
0:34.6	One is Tencilica, Moka 5, and Moby Social. She is really passionate
0:41.3	about disruptive technology. And today's talk, she's going to share with us how mobile
0:46.3	technology is going to change everything. Monica.
0:51.3	Thank you. Thank you very much, Tina. All right, good afternoon everybody. So the title of my talk is how mobile disrupt social as we know it. So what is social as we know it? Hmm, how many people are on Facebook? Maybe I should ask how many people are not on Facebook. All right. So you all know
1:16.0	social as we know it. Okay, you know what that means. So let me put on a computer science hat.
1:24.5	And I would say that from a computer science perspective, the way we build
1:28.5	these social networks these days is a little bit sad and embarrassing because what we have
1:35.3	today are these centralized cloud services. In order for you to share, you sign up and you
1:41.1	say, here is my data, Facebook or any other social network, please take my
1:46.0	data and share it for me. Okay, so these are centralized services. The computer science
1:51.9	researchers have spent lots of time on distributed computing so people can own their different
1:57.0	data and then they can share from different sources, but somehow that's not the kind of systems we have today.
2:02.6	So we have all these centralized services and these are what we call social intranets
2:08.6	as opposed to social internets. What are social intranet?
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