Wow, the first session was really good.
Each speaker mentioned the long tail.
Sxip, great company. They are trying to solve the problem of how can you take the book information that you have on Amazon to Barnes and Noble.
Dianna Neff, CIO for city of Philadelphia. They plan to provide wireless to everyone for $20/month. Low income at $10/month. The biggest resistance they had was from the telcos.
Meembo, this company allows you to get IM on the web. Incredible. Does not seem to work very well on linux.
Vinod Kholsa, partner Kleiner Parkins. When companies become bigger they become traditional and then die. He thinks the Yahoo and AOL model of creating their own content is wrong. Better to let the talented people in the world generate the content. Value of a company is building the community. Grow the audience, do not control the content. He would like to have all college textbooks be open source.
New product from Google: Google Reader. Easy to aggregate and read the content you want to read.
