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The Producer Electronics Revolution, Part I (Linux Journal)

[Posted February 3, 2006 by ris]

Doc Searls is in Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show. "Next was Larry Page, co-founder of Google. This talk was especially interesting to me, because Larry would seem to be the least likely public speaker among top Google brass. He's shy, tends to mumble and never struck me as a stage hog. (Like, for example, me.) He was terrific. Unlike the earlier keynotes I saw, Larry's speech wasn't scripted, and he didn't read it off a screen. Instead, he paced the stage with a stack of paper in his hand, occasionally telling the techie running the slides to go forward or back, and was charmingly low key and good humored."

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Posted Feb 3, 2006 18:44 UTC (Fri) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989) [Link]

>So in summary, we really want to get all this stuff to work together. This is just of a personal passion of mine. What we really need are adapters like I mentioned. And also it's very important that we have standards for security, discovery, peering, and forwarding to the Internet. And we don't really have those things yet. We also need the standards, and there are some already that can be adapted for protocols. Now finally, as I mentioned, you can take USB and really do most of the things you need to do with it .

Maybe Larry Page has enough horsepower to blow a hole in the software patent placenta perpetually precluding pellucid products.

The Producer Electronics Revolution, Part I (Linux Journal)

Posted Feb 5, 2006 14:01 UTC (Sun) by hanwen (subscriber, #4329) [Link]

Google has PageRank patented, so I wonder whether they would be keen on overthrowing patents.