“We don’t view ajax or html documents as competition.” Adobe has been open from day one. PostScript and PDF were open from day one, but we have to make sure to not be so open that we don’t have a viable business model. Worked with Mozilla to open source the actionscript virtual machine. They want…

Yesterday Vox.com announced they are open for busines. This is an interesting company to me because it is similar to ozmorz. If you listen to thier story and then to ours they sound like the same thing. A closer examination makes me think that we are still different. However, the fact that John Battelle called…

This morning I ate breakfast with Shawna O’Reilly from Mayo Clinic Ventures and the product manager of Web Sphere. This conference is a lot of fun. Jeff Bezos is up now. Here are some Amazon stats: 61 million accounts, 10 billion in sales, seven countries, 1.1 million active seller accounts, 10 million square feet in…

I didn’t get much out of this chat from AOL other than a new acronym – UGC – user generated content. The big buzz at this conference seems to be around that very thing – finding ways to get your users to generate content. Build the right tools and they will come and do stuff.

John Battelle “How has the world changed and how is it going a year after the memo from Bill Gates?” Ray – It is going very well. Some people get it some don’t. Vista and Office are done – released to manufacturing. Should be out to business by the end of November. Vista should be…

Marc Hedlund, Chief Product Officer, Wesabe mentioned a couple of sites with openness in mind. He talked about the fact that many of the map companies purchase that data from other companies. Thus, the need for open data repositories. Here are a few that he talked about: Openmapconent.org wikipedia www.wesabe.com openip.info Stewart Butterfield, General Manager,…

The launch is going on right now. Every seat is full, and the unlucky late comers are all standing. I guess everyone is interested in the next big thing. Some interesting companies are coming up. Here is the list with addresses: Inthechair.com – let’s learners interact with musicians online when the practice. Users can contribute…

The free internet is sponsered by AOL – the hotel charges money. Problem is that it sucks. I just lost my last post because WordPress died while trying to connect. For those putting on conferences, please include enough access points.