Internet Summit 2009

Microsoft's Cliff Reeves interviewed

Check out Internet Summit speaker Cliff Reeves (Microsoft) recent interview here. 

He covers everything from Bing to Windows 7. 

Dr. John Morkes joins Usability panel

Dr. John Morkes, Co-Founder and Principal at Expero, will be joining us on the Internet Summit Design/Usability panel. 

John is a recognized leading expert in content usability, collecting data, and validating requirements and UI designs with end-users through a variety of techniques. His recent clients include Intel, Ford, TiVo, Dell, Pfizer, Charles Schwab / CyberTrader, Trilogy, and Symantec / WholeSecurity. 

Previously, John was director of Trilogy's Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) team and established that company’s usability program and usability lab. While at Trilogy, he led efforts to improve usability of Nissan and Ford websites, which Forrester Research rated as the two best consumer sites in the industry. He also has worked as a usability engineer for Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems (with Dr. Jakob Nielsen) and as a journalist for Wired and Research & Development magazines. John is a published researcher and a frequent speaker at International user experience conferences.

Get the latest on Design/Usability Do's and Don't from John and the rest of the Design panel. 

Lenovo's Director of Interactive Marketing set for Internet Summit

Gary Milner, who serves as Global Marketing Director for Interactive Marketing for Lenovo, will be joining Internet Summit to discuss the latest in search marketing. 

From SEO to online collaborations to discussing the latest in search trends, the search panel will discuss and highlight the latest best practices. What are the top mistakes most companies make from a search positioning standpoint? What are the easy fixes that will improve your search results dramatically? When compared with other more capital intensive marketing avenues, search potentially has a huge ROI if approached correctly.

Gary's role at Lenovo encompasses all of the digital marketing, including search marketing now centralized with Covario. He has driven the centralization of global interactive media acquisition and trafficking for most of the markets in which Lenovo operates. He has direct responsibility for acquiring traffic for the North American teleweb business which has grown 600 percent in revenue in the past year. Acquisition programs that he operates include affiliate marketing, PC vertical marketing, Comparison Shopping Engines, test programs such as Google TV and display advertising. Gary was awarded the first inaugural award for TV marketing excellence from the Google Corporation in 2008 and in Q4 won the Summitt Award for bleeding edge digital media measurement.

Early registration discount ends this week

The Internet Summit early registration discount deadline is this Friday, so don't miss the boat. 

The Summit is heating up with over 75 speakers speakers from companies like Twitter, Google, AOL, Technorati, Digg, Microsoft, Expedia, ESPN.com, 1-800-Flowers.com, Silverpop, comScore, Pandora, Blogger, Advertising.com, Huffington Post, iContact, ShareThis, eMarketer, SAS, Vocus, CBS Interactive, meebo, & Gannett Digital to name a few. 

Director of Analytics for McClatchy Interactive joins IS09

Norm Cloutier, the Director of Analytics for McClatchy Interactive, will be joining IS09 for our Analytics panel discussion. 

Norm oversees the online audience and metrics for McClatchy's 29 daily newspapers including more than 100 separate web sites serving more than 40 million monthly visitors. He has been dedicated to internet publishing since 1995, serving in director roles as diverse as editorial, business development and product management. 

McClatchy is the 3rd largest newspaper company in the US.

1-800-Flowers.com CIO joins Internet Summit speaker list

Stephen Bozzo is 1-800-FLOWERS.COM's Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, where he is responsible for all aspects of E-Commerce, IT Planning, Development, Delivery Management and Infrastructure. 

Prior to joining the company, he served as Vice President and Chief Information Officer of the International division of MetLife Insurance Company.  

One of the pioneers of Internet retailing, 1-800 FLOWERS.COM, which ranks number 31 on Internet Retailer's Top 500 list, recently launched the first online store on Facebook. 

We look forward to getting Stephen's insight. 

Head of ESPN.com to speak at Internet Summit

John Kosner, who as SVP leads all of ESPN's Digital Media properties, including ESPN.com, the world’s leading online sports service; ESPN360.com, the live sports event broadband network from ESPN; and all content development for Mobile, Interactive Television, Interactive Gaming and other emerging digital media, is set to join our Internet Summit speaker line up. 

Kosner has overseen ESPN.com since March, 2003 – a period of tremendous growth and industry recognition for ESPN online. Kosner and his team have helped ESPN.com establish a clear leadership position on the Internet and in Mobile, pioneering online video with ESPN Motion, creating an industry-leading paid subscription service, Insider, and achieving 67% audience share among sports mobile Websites.

In June 2008, Kosner was named to The Hollywood Reporter's Digital Power 50, which highlighted individuals plotting the course for content on emerging digital platforms, ranking 24th. And in October, 2008, Sports Business Journal ranked Kosner as the Most Influential person in Online Sports. Previously, Kosner, a 27-year sports media veteran, spent time with CBS Sports, the NBA and Sports Illustrated.

We're excited to have John on board! 

Blogger's Rick Klau speaking at Internet Summit

Rick is the Business Product Manager for Blogger at Google, where he leads the monetization efforts for the world's largest blogging platform. Rick joined Google as a result of its acquisition of FeedBurner, where he ran FeedBurner's publisher services team.

Rick has lent technology advice to two US Presidential campaigns, ran the campaign weblog for President Barack Obama in his 2004 Senate race, ran product strategy for and managed Google's presence at the Democratic National Convention in 2008, and is the creator of superdelegates.org, a collaborative website that profiles all of the 700+ Democratic National Committee super delegates and presents them in a Google Earth layer.

Interviews with Rick have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Newsweek, Washington Post, InfoWorld, CIO Magazine, Information Week, and dozens of others. His work has been featured on CNN, in the New York Times, on NPR, and Wired Magazine.

Rick will be giving a talk about Blog best practices and trends while also sitting in on the Blogging Roundtable discussion. 

comScore: Online video usage surge

A report issued by our friends over at online metrics firm comScore shows a major surge in online video during the month of July. 

comScore's Video Metrix showed that 158 million US Internet users watched online video during July, the largest such audience to date. Online videos reached an all-time high in July with a 21.4 billion videos viewed. According to our math, that puts the average number of videos watched per online video watcher at over 130. 

Not surprisingly, Google Sites continued to rank as the top U.S. video property with a record 8.9 billion videos viewed, making up 42 percent of all videos viewed online. YouTube.com accounted for more than 99 percent of all videos viewed at Google. 

comScore chairmain and cofounder Gian Fulgoni will be giving his state of the Internet market at this year's Summit, while we will also have an in-depth panel discussing how to take business advantage of the trends in online video. 

Early bird Deadline this Friday at Midnight!

We know times are tough, that's why we keep Internet Summit registration rates super budget friendly and hundreds below similar events around the country. This week is your chance to save even more! 

We get discounts when we order things in advance (like all the beer, food and cool giveaways you'll get), so if you sign up before this Friday August 28th at Midnight you'll get to save a few more bucks. 

So sign up today and join over 1000 of your peers on what's been called the "hippest Internet conference on the east coast." (We're trying our best to be the hippest Internet conference period this year).