the panel will start in a few minutes
by jk at 1/26/2010 10:44:04 AM
Salim Ismail is currently on stage and talking about singularity and the singularity university.
by is at 1/26/2010 10:47:54 AM
Singularity University (SU) is bringing the brightest minds together and is trying to teach them how the world is being transformed by technology and factors like Moore's Law, etc.
by is at 1/26/2010 10:49:20 AM
Sergey Brin, who attended the founding meeting of SU, told that SU members should tackle the largest problems in the world
by is at 1/26/2010 10:49:58 AM
Medicine becomes an information science
by is at 1/26/2010 10:50:23 AM
The most innovation is happening not in one specific field, but between two merging fields
by is at 1/26/2010 10:51:23 AM
SU is teaching their students basic knowledge about nanotech, AI, computing, etc. and then challenges them to tackle problems that might effect 1bn people
by is at 1/26/2010 10:53:25 AM
marcel reichart on stage
by jk at 1/26/2010 10:54:32 AM
introducing Om Malik (OM)
by jk at 1/26/2010 10:54:48 AM
OM will be moderating
by jk at 1/26/2010 10:55:28 AM
OM: I described Hulu as ClownCo in the beginning
by jk at 1/26/2010 10:55:57 AM
Jason Kilar (JK) joins OM on stage
by jk at 1/26/2010 10:56:14 AM
OM calls JK the Tom Cruise of tech
by jk at 1/26/2010 10:56:27 AM
OM: Hulu kept me going through a tough time of sickness
by jk at 1/26/2010 10:56:53 AM
JK: Hulu is, despite it's success, pretty earl in its development
by is at 1/26/2010 10:57:32 AM
JK: hulu represents the way media should be, that's why people love us
by jk at 1/26/2010 10:57:57 AM
OM: hulu has more competition. a lot of services are coming with premium content
by jk at 1/26/2010 10:58:43 AM
JK: we have the right for nothing ... he is trying to emphasize, that they need to work hard to keep the competition at bay
by is at 1/26/2010 10:59:33 AM
JK: we are very focussed on our culture
by jk at 1/26/2010 10:59:48 AM
JK is pretty confident that they are in this for the long haul and that the board is seeing the big picture
by is at 1/26/2010 11:00:47 AM
JK: hulu needs a certain amount of independence to work
by jk at 1/26/2010 11:01:37 AM
OM: Hulu has about 900 million video streams each month
by jk at 1/26/2010 11:02:34 AM
JK: our business is a very solid one, for every stream there is a return
by jk at 1/26/2010 11:02:53 AM
JK: there is a big misunderstanding on how sold this is as a business
by is at 1/26/2010 11:03:35 AM
OM: you're not having the monetizing issues that youtube had?
by jk at 1/26/2010 11:03:44 AM
Hulu is able to monetize new and old content ...
by is at 1/26/2010 11:04:01 AM
JK: we're serving about 400 top advertisers
by jk at 1/26/2010 11:04:20 AM
JK: i challenged our team to cross a very high revenue goal. we made it and so we all shaved our hair
by jk at 1/26/2010 11:05:29 AM
JK: the mission of hulu is to help people find and enjoy the worlds premium content
by jk at 1/26/2010 11:06:11 AM
JK: the hulu of today won't go away
by jk at 1/26/2010 11:07:16 AM
OM: when is hulu coming to europe?
by jk at 1/26/2010 11:07:52 AM
Hulu will adjust it's model to have access to premium content that might be only available via a subscription model
by is at 1/26/2010 11:08:11 AM
JK: its no technical issue
by jk at 1/26/2010 11:08:12 AM
JK: its a long hard work to get the rights
by jk at 1/26/2010 11:08:26 AM
OM: say in 2010?
by jk at 1/26/2010 11:09:01 AM
JK: that sounds like a product roadmap-question :-)
by jk at 1/26/2010 11:09:11 AM
Om is grilling JK on when Hulu will be available in Europe
by is at 1/26/2010 11:09:43 AM
OM: you come from the jeff bezos school of management - don't tell them anything
by jk at 1/26/2010 11:10:03 AM
JK is really good at not talking about product road maps
by is at 1/26/2010 11:10:22 AM
JK: we are very big believers in mobile. and we don't think about one device only
by jk at 1/26/2010 11:10:31 AM
JK: "the computer in your pocket is very important ..."
by is at 1/26/2010 11:10:38 AM
OM: what about the apple tablet for streaming Hulu? what would be your strategy around that?
by jk at 1/26/2010 11:12:42 AM
JK: "We are agnostic when it comes to the device..."
by is at 1/26/2010 11:12:54 AM
JK: content owners are always going to act in their best interest
by jk at 1/26/2010 11:15:23 AM
JK: we have to earn that content
by jk at 1/26/2010 11:15:55 AM
JK: we work with 220 content owners
by jk at 1/26/2010 11:16:23 AM
Om: what is the biggest challenge that Hulu is having right now?
by is at 1/26/2010 11:16:34 AM
JK: there is no way that we could have startet hulu ten years ago
by jk at 1/26/2010 11:17:16 AM
JK: taking advantage of that and moving very, very quickly in a market that changes rapidly
by jk at 1/26/2010 11:17:44 AM
OM: are you profitable?
by jk at 1/26/2010 11:19:01 AM
JK: not answering financial questions
by jk at 1/26/2010 11:19:11 AM
JK: The good thing about the Internet and technologically is that you can make a big chunk of information availably in a appropriate way for the user ...
by is at 1/26/2010 11:19:29 AM
thats it for this panel
by jk at 1/26/2010 11:19:40 AM