One of the best panels I heard...
Safa Rashtchy + 5 teenagers (I don't know the spellings or names so please forgive me).
Safa - If you want to know what the next big thing is. Ask people. The age group of 12 to 24 year olds is 25% of media consumption. They spend 30% more time than the next age group. Important for you to understand what they want.
Daniel Labeaux - Junior in high school. I usually stay on the phone all day. I spend a few hundred dollars a month on ring tones, games and downloads.
Shawn Spidiacci - I'm a senior. I get home from crew and go on the computer I go on myspace and talk to people on instant messenger.
Sethi hyatt - 17 from belmont. Spend time on myspace and livejournal. Keep updated with friends lives and parents lives. My dad is retired.
Sasha Volkov - Freshman at Cal - Spend an hour or 4 hours online I do facebook and myspace. Mostly I use it for resarch.
Jake Rumblock - Senior. I spend time researching with google. Spend some time on myspace and play some playstation too.
Safa - Let's start with myspace. You don't ask them to use myspace. Do you know anyone who doesn't use myspace.
Daniel - they started and they
Safa - how much time do you spend on myspace.
Shawn - I wait for people to leave me a message. When I go to sleep I wait if there are any notifiers and then I check myspace.
Sethi - 99.9% of my time on myspace because all my friends have it. I nkow one person who doesn't use myspace. I use it to keep in contact with people I do know.
Shawn - I know about Facebook and it's a big college one but I have a lot of friends on there that I know of.
Sasha - once you get to college myspace isn't a big deal anymore. Facebook is what's important. it's much easier than myspace.
Safa - Where do you go to search, whether it's homework etc.
Daniel - Google - type in what I need to find.
Shawn - I use google to search and use google images. I use powerpoint for presentations. When I look for music I got itunes and then I goto bittorrent website. OINK.
Sethi - Use google for images. Usually webcrawler or Ask Jeeves.
Safa - why do you use ask?
Sethi - I can type in an actual question and that's more convenient.
Sasha - I use Google. I goto itunes to check things out. I have thing called DCP++. If you exceed bandwidth it shuts you off. I've gotten 50 songs in a day. I don't pay for music anymore.
Jake - I use bittorent to get Chappelle show. If you leave things on overnight you get amazing amounts of media for free which is sweet. I use Google because I like having just the single box and not the directory.
Safa - Let's talk a little more about music. Who has an ipod (4/5) How much of it is downlaoded or free.
Shawn - I like the idea of downloading music for money but bittorrent is so easy. You can get the whole album in 30 minutes. I'd rather wait 30 minutes. My computer crashed. I went to my friends iPod and used a program off of download.com you override the iPod security to get the music.
Sasha - I have hundreds of songs and I've paid for 10. It's been a while.
Sethi - I have never paid for downloading a song. When I do download stuff for my ipod I go to my friends because they paid or their internet connection is faster. I get all different music from my friends.
Safa - Tell me about these companies as I say their names.
Daniel - I like AOL instant messenger. I use it 24/7.
Safa - Instant messaging
Shawn - Use AOL because my friends are on it. I use Yahoo too.
Sethi - I use AIM and depending who uses it I use MSN.
Sash - I use AIM but I use MSN for friends in brazil.
Jack - AOL instant messenger. I used to use the browser. I met a lot of people on MSN.
Safa - tell me about your cell phone.
Daniel - sidekick 2 from tmobile. I use AIM on the phone.
Safa - Yahoo.
Daniel - I use Yahoo to search or chat.
Shawn - Yahoo for me didn't exist didn't really exist because I didn't like their search or the layout of their webpage.
Sethi - I don't use Yahoo much but I made my friend an email account.
Sasha - I have an email account there for an internship but I don't really use it. I go as an alternative if Google isn't helping me.
Jake - Email is prety cool on Yahoo. One thing that I really like is News. In terms of region it helps to get news from Cuba there.
Safa - Tell me about Ebay
Jake - I used to buy baseball cards and videogames. I have used it 5 times. There's always that risk that someone is going to rip me off.
Sasha - Use it occasionally. My mom uses it. I'm afraid of being ripped off. I buy from Amazon for books and music.
Safa - anyone else use ebay. Amazon?
Shawn - I bought school books and CDs off Amazon.
Safa - Let's assume I give you each $100. You can spend it online or offline. Go to a bar ( laugh )
Shawn - Put it away to save it for a surfboard. I'd buy the surfboard at a used search shop. I wouldn't go online because I want to see it and touch it.
Daniel - Cellphones. Spend the money on ringtones and Games. I spend $50 and $60 on games.
Sethi - I get concert tickets or shoes. I buy shoows at Tru in San Francisco on haight street. I don't like paying for shipping and handling.
Sasha - I spend on food and clothes. Dorm food is horrible.
Jake - I spend it on burritos and gasoline. Gas is too expensive.
Safa - Shopping online this time. Buy a new phone online. Where do you go?
Daniel - I go to tmobile online. I like tmobile.
Shawn - I go to verizon becuase I don't know where else I would go. It gets a vcast on a phone but that seems cool.
Sethi - I goto sprint because family has sprint and friends do.
Safa - Let's say you want to buy a cd player.
Shawn - shakes head. CD player?!
Safa - digital camera
Shawn - I look at sony or look at download.com and look at reviews. I buy things on Froogle because you get cheap stuff.
Daniel - Probably go to Sony. I would serach for it and see what comes up.
Sethi - I don't know. I would go to best buy.
Sasha - I'd do a search for what's out there and best. I'd go to ebay or amazon.
Jake - Compare the major places that sell like Amazon, Ebay, circuit city and then froogle.
Safa - Think about the web and things you do with it. Think about 5 years from now. What do you wish you could do with the web that you can't do now.
Jake - Get rid of all that spyware. Please. Get on that please.
Sasha - I want to read books online. I don't pay for things. The more free stuff that you can come up with.
Safa - Who watches TV and how much.
Daniel - I watch TV a lot. Lay around at home watching TV. I spend the same amount of time on TV as online. I am online and watching TV at the same time.
Shawn - I don't have a lot of time to watch. I use the computer. My family is addicted to it. Can you stop watching that.
Sethi - I don't watch that much TV. I'm on the computer a lot. I watch maybe 1 show. I watch law and order svu or 24.
Sasha - I watch the cooking channel.
Jake - I am addicted to really bad TV. Laguna Beach, OC, Chappelle Show. Office. Daily Show. I watch cable news sometimes. With Fox News you have to know your enemy.
Question - I'm from FreeWebs. Feedback is awesome. We have about 15 million members. We've noticed you're very finicky. When you say sites like myspace put ads everywhere does that turn you off.
Shawn - Google does a lot of ads but they're really behind the scenes. Myspace has ads in so many spaces. When you have those pop ups it makes no sense. Hit they guy to get an ipod.
Sasha - Ads are so obnoxious. No one pays attention to them. Google is the best. It's too cluttered in other places.
Question - People are trying to build the next generation of portable devices. What do you want on that device? Phone + video + music?
Shawn - Do it. that sounds awesome. Put that all in one. Video iPod would be awesome.
Sasha - you should do that. TV shows.
Safa - would you pay $3 per video?
Sasha - I'd pay if it was quality. I'd pay if I couldn't avoid it.
Question - In your daily life where do you go for news or finding out what's going on?
Shawn - go to reuters. podcast npr. cnn. multiple news sites because I don't trust anybody.
Daniel - I go to newspaper sites. cnn.
Safa - does anyone read the newspaper (2/6)
Shasha - MSN or CNN. Video clips are really good.
Safa - Tivo? Skype?
No One knows skype
Question - What more would you like out of IM?
Shawn - you're just putting ads on it, I hate it. I'm trying to talk to my friends.
Daniel - I like to have ti on video so you can have IM when you see like a web cam.
Chris