Mike Walsh is the author of 'Futuretainment' and runs Tomorrow, an Asia focused digital media research business.

This is a review of a talk he gave on Digital Media Consumers in Asia at the recent O'Reilly Etech conference:
http://www.oreillynet.com/conferences/blog/2008/03/futuretainment_the_as...

There is more information and videos here:
www.TheTomorrowCompany.com/keynotes.html

Pierre Bellanger talks about the future of social networks. As the founder and owner of Europe's largest site of such a kind (and the 17th most visited site on earth), he has a very interesting vision on what directions these tools will take, and hints at a future made of instant communication and mobile.