• by David Goetzl  @dgoetzl, May 22, 2008

The Summit has begun -- at least the more serious part after last night's beach-side cocktail reception here at Captiva Island. And MediaPost's Ken Fadner is filling in a packed room about some famous residents of what technically is no longer an island due to shifting sands.

Attendees entranced enough to put down some roots in Captiva have a rather appealing option: Case's Place. AOL founder Steve Case -- clearly one of the most influential people in the email continuum -- is selling his home for a cool $7.9 million.

Other well-known Captiva residents include Ted Koppel, Willard Scott and Bill Gates. And artist Robert Rauschenberg, who died earlier this month, lived only a few hundred yards from the conference site.

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