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What surprises have you found?
We found interesting choices about filtering health information, women's education and rights information in places like Saudi Arabia. I'm interested in harnessing the good will and distributed power of people, including novices. I'm designing a little Firefox plug-in so when you can't get to a Web site, you click on a button that says, "Why can't I get there from here?" The act of asking the question combined with everybody else tells you the answer. Because if everybody in China is asking why they can't get the BBC [site] and nobody else is [asking that], you can infer that maybe there's a problem in China with getting the BBC. That's a great example of a generative technology designed to solve a problem.
 
Are you reaching out to Internet service providers?
There are things they can do, but no, I'm not looking to farm this problem out. There's a couple things I say in the book about what Internet service providers can do about the virus problem, such as quarantine machines that have obviously gone sour on the networks. They're reluctant to do it because they'd rather just collect the monthly fee.

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  • Posted By: Eraserhead @ 05/08/2008 4:02:52 PM

    Apple having a closed platform for native applications doesn't make any difference for the web at all. The web is accessed in a browser and Apple has no control over the "freedom" of the internet.

    The closed platform does have advantages however, it is what will keep malware off it, it also makes it easier for developers to distribute applications.

    To be honest that would be a better model for Windows PC's too, 1 million pieces of malware doesn't make a good user experience. Now it'd be ideal if there were multiple stores not all controlled by Apple, but still...

  • Posted By: Eraserhead @ 05/08/2008 4:02:16 PM

    Apple having a closed platform for native applications doesn't make any difference for the web at all. The web is accessed in a browser and Apple has no control over the "freedom" of the internet.

    The closed platform does have advantages however, it is what will keep malware off it, it also makes it easier for developers to distribute applications.

    To be honest that would be a better model for Windows PC's too, 1 million pieces of malware doesn't make a good user experience. Now it'd be ideal if there were multiple stores not all controlled by Apple, but still...

  • Posted By: Amuh @ 05/05/2008 7:44:02 AM

    Its hilarious. Publisher on one side publishes an interview by an intellectual on the killing effect of Facebook and iPhone and at the same time advertise Alcatel - Lucent that's taking 1/3 of the space.

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