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He says he believes the society is changing very quickly, and he says that the people there have a tremendous amount
of hope and confidence that didn't exist there ten years ago. As a society he thinks they have started down a one-way
street, in that they have to give people more education, technology and a free market. He thinks those things will
drive freedom of speech.
He asks all the time if he is helping a good or bad regime and that he doesn't always believe in, and that they have
that issue in Germany too.
He believes that by being there and providing infrastructure that they are going to have a positive influence. He says
that is what he is investing in, creating a dialogue now.
Kim Polese just annouced her new company which is working in the Open Source space: SpikeSource.
She calls it an "Open source IT services company" — the idea is to piggyback on Open Source software and make money
off of providing services, support, etc.
Brendan Eich (see bio below), who works on the Mozilla project, is speaking at Web2.0 conference
(http://web20.weblogsinc.com) right now. I'll have an Mp3 file up in 15
minutes… so reload this page if you like.
Brendan Eich Eich is responsible for architecture and the technical direction of Mozilla. He is
charged with authorizing module owners, owning architectural issues of the source base and writing the "roadmap" that
outlines the direction of the Mozilla project. Eich created JavaScript, did the work through Navigator 4.0, and
helped carry it through international standardization. Before Netscape, he wrote operating system and network code
for SGI; and at MicroUnity, wrote micro-kernel and DSP code, and did the first MIPS R4K port of gcc, the GNU C
compiler.
Have not done any comments about these panels yet cause I'm overloaded with keeping up with all this great content,
and I lost my partner in crime Sean Bonner.
Microsoft labs showed off some of their projects. No time to write it up, but they hit on Wallop and medical
databases. I deleted the Mp3 file by accident!
Looking to find out if anyone else covered it, or has an MP3.
The Telephone is a Platform. Discuss Om Malik, Senior
Writer, Business 2.0 Jeffrey A. Citron, Chairman & CEO,
Vonage Hossein Eslambolchi, President of AT&T's
Global Networking Technology Services, AT&T's CTO & CIO, AT&T Charlie E. Hoffman, CEO, Covad Mike McCue, President, COO & Co-Founder,
Tellme
Engadget has
Creative Zen Vision about Microsoft "breaking some new
ground" with a… Battlebot (?!) walking around with Sony
Ericsson's new W600 Walkman Phone and chatting up how the
Nintendo Revolution won't support HD.
AdJab covers
AutoTrader's attacks, on
Heinz one-liners,
marooned on Gilligan's
Island and then
