Google labs just presented.

Here is the MP3 file: http://calacanis.weblogsinc.com/common/videos/jason/googlela…

OM did a bang up job moderating an important panel on the future of VOIP and phone services.

Here is the MP3 and the panelists.

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

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

Tim O'Reilly starts off talking about maping and Geolocation as an emerging and developing idea that people are just starting to notice. He passed it onto John Hanke from Keyhole who is demonstrating their new mapping service (app?) that is satelite imagery based, photorealisitic and allows you to zoom into street level. Right now they are still growing but they are working on a 100 terrabyte map of the entire earth. The are using this in connection with transit athority traffic information as well as blog like posts from the users the fill in additional information. Looks incredibly cool.

Here is the MP3 file.

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.

Technorati is tracking over 4.1 million blogs and has a median responce time of 7 minutes. That is, 7 minutes after someone blogs something, Technorati knows about it. It's about who is talking about what, and where they are linking however links don't mean truthfulness. Every 5 months the blogosphere is doubling and english is longer the majority, it's still used more than anything else on it's own, but less than 50% of the blogs are now in english. There's about 4 posts a second happening, and there's massive spikes durring some events - After the conventions there was a huge increase in blogs. Likewise with the Nick Berg beheading, the Dean scream, and the Kryptonite bike lock stories. All of these were massive stories and created lots of links, and lots of new blogs.

RSS - 31.2% of blogs have RSS feeds and only 28.2% of RSS feeds are full text feeds. (side note - I blogged about this the other day but I no longer subscribed to anything that doesn't provide a full text feed). The more people that link to you, the more chances you have an RSS feed and that it's full text - perhaps this is because people have more options of how to get your content.

Here's the MP3 of the session.

Andrew discussed what he's learned from porn.

Here is the MP3 and some images.

I've been ranting about Plazes which is a very cool geolocation foaf-type thingy. Since there's a lot of people here at WEB 2.0 and several hotspots in the building, this seems like it would be the perfect chance to test it out with a bunch of people. Sadly, only Jason DeFillippo and I are using it at the moment. So.. go sign up already!