Hi there,

I am Alex and I am one of the organizers for Social Communications Panel at Play.

Our panel is all about how do people connect online, how did they connect in the past and how are they going to connect in the future. If you think about it, the first online people interaction was over email, then chat and IM came in and that was it, up until a few years ago. Today we have social networking as the main way to connect with people. Going on Facebook you see that posting on the Wall for everyone to see is what users increasingly do. So we went from private emails to public walls – pretty interesting change, I would say What’s the future going to look like? What will happen to email and IM? Let’s see what our panelists have to say about that!
We just finished getting 99% of our panel in place so I am kind of excited to anounce them here.

We got a great  line up with people representing almost every way of online communication out there.
We got  Konstantin Guericke, CEO of Jaxtr, to bring in the VOIP perspective, Bhaskar Roy, co-founder of Qik, to bring in the video perspective, John Poisson, CEO of Tiny Pictures (Radar), to bring in the photos perspective (yes, this startup is all about people connecting through photos), Chris Szeto, PM at Meebo, to bring in the IM perspective and we got Andrew Trader, EVP of Business Development at Zynga, to bring in the social gaming perspective. And to answer the question you all must be thinking about – yes, we are hoping to have Facebook too!

And our star moderator, Noah Kagan, is going to spice up our panel. He got his experience working in established companies such as Microsoft and Intel, hot startups such Facebook and Mint, and is now building online “awesomeness” at kickflip.com. You can check him out at http://okdork.com

So that’s it, we are looking forward to our panel and hoping all of you out there will join us and give our panelists some tough questions to answer!

Alex.