Today we have opened the lines for this year’s Open Stage!

The Lift 10 Open Stage will feature seven of you who will take us on a short tour d'horizon of what their days look and feel like. You might walk us through your typical work week, bring your favourite tool and showcase your craftsmanship or tell us about that one secret ingredient in your life. All this can be work-related, but does not have to be: We are interested in what you are genuinely passionate about.

Please have a look at the full brief and send us your proposal using the Open Stage forms. Everyone who attends Lift 10 can hand in a proposal for a chance to hit the big stage in May and we are looking forward to receiving your ideas.

Submission deadline is April 5th – but the earlier we hear from you, the better your chances!

If you have got any questions or comments, please talk to us at openstage@liftconference.com.
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Lee Bryant describes to what extent we reach a new culture ecosystem echoes with old traditions of trade, business and socialisation while the Twentieth century was all about mass market and mass production.

The Mozilla Project: Core Values of a 230 Million Person World Wide Social Network

Chris Hofmann, from Mozilla how to combine the open-source values, strong communities, passion and an open approach for building a software such as Firefox.

Sociogeek: How do you expose yourself online? How do you choose your online friends? Another kind of online survey

Daniel Kaplan, CEO of French think tank FING, discuss the results of an on-line survey which aimed at investigating the way people expose themselves online. Are we being too candid about ourselves when online? Are we as transparent as we pretend to be? What strategies do we follow in order to maximize the range and efficiency of our online social networks? And how do we select new online "friends"? Does online networking lower current social barriers?

Yaoundé-based sociologist Baba Wamé gives a stunning overview of how the Web has been appropriated by cameroonian women. More specifically, he shows how email and IM have been turned into on-line dating tools. He then raise raise awareness on the dangers of such practices for the women of his country.

Urban Mobs : how to visualize the cell phone activity in cities ?

Stéphane Distinguin, CEO of Faber Novel, describes the results from "Urban Mobs". This project, conducted with Orange aimed at studying crowd communication activities and paint a “ popular emotion cartography through mobile phone tracking.

All The Content CEO Clément Charles questions the importance of product lifecycle in the context of innovation: Does product lifecycle kill innovation or it's a necessary process to fund research? What is the impact of open innovation on those lifecycle?

The Mozilla Project: Core Values of a 230 Million Person World Wide Social Network

Chris Hofmann, from Mozilla how to combine the open-source values, strong communities, passion and an open approach for building a software such as Firefox.

Daniel Kaplan, CEO of French think tank FING, discuss the results of an on-line survey which aimed at investigating the way people expose themselves online. Are we being too candid about ourselves when online? Are we as transparent as we pretend to be? What strategies do we follow in order to maximize the range and efficiency of our online social networks? And how do we select new online "friends"? Does online networking lower current social barriers?

Frank Beau, an independent researcher specialized in new media, talks about the "Metromantics" project. He basially describes the findings of a study of internet messages about romantic encounters in Paris' metro and show the sociological implications of such behaviors.