The DLD website has videos of all presentations. My favorites are Hackers Inc., Disruptive Connections and Where are the Editors. You can find the videos here: http://videos.dld-conference.com/

The best moment in Hackers, Inc. is when Pablos Holman shows how he hacked into Jeff Pulver’s voice mail. He had Jeff stand up and identify himself to the audience. Apparently it is quite easy to hack into voice mail and other “secure” services.

The panel on Disruptive Connections was also very compelling: Hjalmar Winbladh (Rebtel), Jeff Pulver (VON), Marko Ahtisaari (Blyk), Alexander Straub (Truphone). The “disruption” consists of the launch of new services (like Truphone and Rebtel) that allow people to make very cheap calls on their mobile phones. Winbladh and Straub called the mobile operators’ roaming charges “highway robbery”. They also touched upon the arrival of ubiquitous Wi-Fi as a way for people to use unlicensed spectrum for voice and data services.

“Where are the Editors” features the outspoken Arianna Huffington (Huffington Post), Craig Newmark (Craigslist), Tariq Krim (Netvibes), Dave Sifry (Technorati) and Jim Spanfeller (Forbes.com). With the rise of blogs and services that aggregate news and feeds like Netvibes and Digg, do editors have a role? Arianna points out how the New York Times’ editorial board allowed the fake weapons of mass destruction article to appear in the Times (giving the Bush Administration a lot of support in starting a war based on false premises). Craig says that you should trust your users. On Craigslist, the users help them flag spam, inappropriate posts and fraud. This is a very interesting session and I did ask one question at the end.

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