They are showing off MAKE Magazine here at Web 2.0. It's basically what you read on HackaDay.com in print—four or five months later. :-)

Cory just gave a rousing speech about the history of copyright and innovation. His basic theory is that the technology industry has gone soft and people like Intel are selling out the startups. He cited examples (i.e. radio, VCR, etc.) of technologies that didn't give in and changed the world for the better.

He also noted that someone at the conference donated $100,000 to the EFF during the conference, and asked that busy technologists in the room "outsource" their concern to EFF by donating—or at the very least signing petitions.

Wasn't sure where I stood on Cory, but over time I've come to admire his steadfast belief in the freedom of technology innovation.

Here's the MP3 file.

Here is the Mp3 and part two. Notes to come…. feel free to comment.

I'm taking some notes on the search panel at Web 2.0 conference, but I thought I would give you the MP3 file and some photos first. Here is part one in MP3 format, and here is part two. This page will be updated with the second MP3 file and some more notes.

Search is a Platform. Where is it Going?
Steve Berkowitz , Udi Manber , Louis Monier , Christopher Payne , Jeff Weiner

 

From the "Music is a Platform"

" Panel at the Web 2.0 conference.

The panelists:
Hank Barry, Partner, Hummer Winblad
Mike Caren, Senior Vice President of A&R, Atlantic Records
Eddy Cue, Vice President, Applications and Internet Services, Apple
Danger Mouse
Michael Weiss, CEO, Streamcast

DJ Danger Mouse (right) talked about using sony's Acid software to make the grey album. I'll have the Mp3 of this discussion up in a little bit. DJDM talked about using a cracked version of the software and making the Grey Album because he had nothing to loose if he got sued.

Micheal Weiss is pitching a new website called Neonet (can't find the domain) that he says is a next generation P2P search technology.

Here is part one of the discussion in MP3. Part two is coming up.

... more to come… the panel is still going on….

Apple said they had 70% of the legal market. Apple thinks the marketplace wants an a la cart downloads. Hank pointed out that artists get 10-14% of retail (i.e. a la cart) sales, all you can eat licenses mean the labels have to pay the artists half. So, the labels don't want to do it.

From the Web 2.0 conference:

Hank Barry just went off on fighting the INDUCE ACT, following Mark Cuban's comments last night.

Here is the MP3 of his comments.

Moments ago at the Web 2.0 conference Dan Rosensweig, COO of Yahoo, said that Overture will support ads in RSS!

So, the question now is when Google  Adsense support  RSS!

UPDATE: Chris Tolles of Topix.net asked the question… so props to my pal for standing up and asking!

John Battelle is interviewing Marc Andreessen and Yahoo's COO Dan Rosensweig right now. Here is an MP3 of part one of the discussion. Here is a copy of the Mp3 of part two.

Marc talked about EBAY locking down users, and never letting them take their reputation out of the system. He called them a plantation owner, which got a big laugh.

Dan talked about the re-launch of My.Yahoo.com, and ending the "data lockup" model because users don't want their data locked up.  He believed that the travel space is the next walled garden to come down. Don't use data as a weapon he said.

Marc called him on this saying that they don't have open APIs.

Dan said you can't do things over night (i.e. opening up APIs). However, he was clear that he is open to it.

Marc talked about being able to pull out your search history, your reputation system, etc. form online services.

Marc talked about better products changing user behavior instantly due to word of mouth and low/no cost of switching. He cited Google search and mobile handsets as examples of people switching instantly.

John asked about the "Web OS" meme—claiming it was put out there by Google. Marc felt that Google is being lead into a head on collision with Microsoft—he joked that he had been there before (i.e. Microsoft and Netscape).

Dan got in a great one-liner saying "how did it turn out?" (obviously Netscape got killed).

Marc got in an even better one-liner saying "You're going to find out." (i.e. Yahoo was going to get killed by Microsoft).

The most important part of the discussion was Dan saying that he thought a WebOS would create tremendous value for users. Marc agreed that it would be huge. Hmmm… maybe Yahoo and Google will be taking over the desktop.

Mary Meeker gave a quick talk about the Internet in China. I'm getting very interested in China after going to the Milken conference. It's a huge opportunity (billions of people) filled with huge risks (lack of trust, infrastructure and payment systems).

Here's the MP3 and I'll post the powerpoint if I can get my hands on it. I've got photos of the powerpoint I'll post as well.

Andrew discussed what he's learned from porn.

Here is the MP3 and some images.

Brewster Kahle

gave a great talk about archiving the web.

Here is the MP3.

Jeff blogged it:

Brewster Kahle arguing that "universal access to all knowledge is possible." Well, drat, I have to run out for a few minutes and I'll miss universal knowledge. I'll pick it up on another blog. He says there are 26 million books in the Library of Congress, the largest in the world; more than half are out of copyright. That's 26 terabytes of data that would cost $60k to store. He said it costs about $10 to scan a book. He's working with a company in Toronto to get robotic help. So the cost is $260 million to scan the LOC.

Cory

blogged it… some of his notes:

Google announced that it will digitize in-print material and out-of-copyright works (like AMZN's thing). 

It costs $10/book to scan — they're digitizing all the books in the Library of Alexandria, and they're going this in China, too.

A group in Toronto is doing a robot-scanner that will bring the cost in the industrial world — where labor is more expensive — to scan books for $10. At $10 per, that $260 Million to scan all the books.

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Sean and I are reporting live from Web 2.0 in San Fran at http://web20.weblogsinc.com

Following up on Jot.com ("Jot Spot") presentation that Sean just blogged here are some photos, notes and an MP3 of the presentation.

Jot is a web based serviced that calls itself an application Wiki.

Cool features:

WYSIWYG editor. (the presenter dissed to SocialText for no editor)
File Upload.
WORD document preview in HTML with document management.
You can CC: you wiki via email. Very cool.
You can add comments to a page.
There are page by page rights.
Jot let's you setup forms in wiki pages.
Jot let's you to pull in a google and yahoo searches into the wiki. Very slick.

Finally they showed a cool demo of Salesforce.com integration in which every company in your Salesforce.com account is replicated to your Wiki.

Bottom line: Wiki space is getting hot. Not sure how big a business this will be. Wiki's feel like "light" versions of Lotus Notes, and frankly this software can be built by anyone in a short period of time. Commodity business if there ever was one.