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A live video feed from the conference can be found here.

Tim Draper's presentation on: "Why I'm Bullish on Investing in Media" was particularly good.  Top reasons he's bullish:  disruption, the end of media monopolies, the continued shift online.

This Friday I have the honor of moderating the social media panel at the Monaco Media Forum.

Now in its 2nd year, the Monaco Media Forum is organized by Prince Albert II of Monaco and is an invite-only global executive forum on the future of media.  This year's program includes a bevy of fantastic speakers and highly relevant topics.  A full list of attendees and topics is here.  Here is just a sampling:

• "The Blur: Media Unbound" David Kenny/Chair & CEO Digitas, followed by a conversation with Tim Armstrong/VP Advertising & Commerce, Google.
  
  
• Crossing Platforms Panel, moderated by Esther Dyson
  
• Rob Glaser/CEO Real Networks
• Ashley Highfield/Director, Future Media, Technology BBC &
  
• Quincy Smith/President CBS Interactive &
• Mike Steib/Director, Google TV Ad Sales.
  
  

• "Reality Check" conversation with Barry Diller, hosted by Kara Swisher/Co-Producer, Wall Street Journal's
  D: All Things Digital (followed by audience Q/A)  (very timely in light of this week's IAC news)
  
  
• "Big Pictures" James Murdoch/CEO British Sky Broadcasting & MMF Co-Chair, talks with Lionel Barber/Editor, Financial Times (followed by audience Q/A)
  
  
• Newspaper 2020" Panel, featuring:
• Timothy Balding/CEO WAN, Len
• Brody/CEO NowPublic, Alex Kroogman/CEO
• NewspaperDirect, Michael Maier/CEO Magwerk,
• Bruno Patino/Vice Chair Le Monde Interactive / Telerama,
  
• Simon Waldman/Group Director of Digital Strategy & Development, Guardian Media.
  
  
• "Music: Worlds At War"
• Roger Ames/CEO EMI North America,
  
• Chris De Wolfe/MySpace,
  
• Rob Glaser/CEO Real Networks
  
• John Kennedy/CEO IFPI,
  
• Scott COHEN / Founder & EVP The Orchard.
  
  

Yours truly, Jason Goldberg, author of SocialMedian, founder and CEO of Jobster, will moderating the panel on social media, which will feature the following participants:

• Alex Blum/CEO KickApps.  Alex Blum is CEO of KickApps, a company that provides a hosted platform that is intended to enable Web site owners to easily deploy premium broadband video, user-generated content services, and social networking functionality.  According to KicksApp:  "KickApps is a hosted platform that allows webmasters to quickly and easily deploy user-generated content and social networking functionality directly on their websites. Our company provides a "white label" solution, with all elements precisely matching a website's existing look and feel. The KickApps platform is highly customizable, scalable and enterprise-quality."
  
  
• Cedric Maloux/CEO AllPeers.  AllPeers is a privately held European company with offices in Oxford, United Kingdom and Prague, Czech Republic. AllPeers is a P2P extension to the Firefox browser (not a website) to simply enable the sharing of any file within a private group of people. Today there are no easy ways to share files with friends, family or colleagues. AllPeers, with its drag'n share functionality makes sharing as easy as moving files from one folder to another.
  
  
• Arthur Madrid/CEO Wixi.  Wixi is a social media network where users interact with each other by privately watching, posting, and sharing content of all media types, including photos, audio, and video. Social networking features allow users to interact with friends online as well as meeting fellow members, browsing their Wixis, discovering new content and expanding their social circles. Founded in early 2007 with offices in Paris, New York and Buenos Aires, Wixi aims to create a world-class community for millions of users, monetized through advertising, entertainment on-demand channels and premium subscription packages.
  
  
• Tim Stevens/CEO Doppelganger.  Doppelganger, Inc., a leading online media and entertainment company targeted to the youth market. Doppelganger designs and produces targeted virtual world environments where users can experience new levels of self-expression, communication, community, rich social networking and rich media programming. The Doppelganger world is located at www.themusiclounge.com. Business partners include Interscope Records, Warner Music Group, Warner Brothers, and MTV Networks.

 Got a burning question you'd like to see asked on the panel?  Let me know by leaving a comment.  I'll try to post a full play by play of much of the conference, including this panel.  Hopefully others will have blog coverage and video online too, which I'll link to.  I'm sure Rafat will have several reports live from the event up on paidcontent.