Senin, 25 Januari 2010

Mozilla guide to internet limitations concerns

The chairman of the Mozilla project, the Firefox Web browser is now 350 million users, said Sunday that she fears that legal restrictions might affect Internet expansion.

Mitchell Baker said that she worried about "the rise of laws that make it difficult, enter an open network, in particular the rules on the content.

"They are suddenly everything downloaded what will be liable, legally or not," she said. "If you tell a community when you build a road, you will guarantee nothing illegal happened - that's what happens on the internet. This is the kind of regulation that some long-term consequences of failure would have. "

Baker spoke on a panel opening a three-day conference on digital innovations and creative ideas.

The DLD Conference - which stands for Digital Life Design - Germany by Hubert Burda, Hubert Burda Media owns and digital investor Yossi Vardi, who co-pioneered instant messaging, and performs under the chairmanship of the panel, entitled "Disruptive the presidency.

Niklas Zennstrom, co-founder of Skype, now says more than 500 million users, successful companies can not be satisfied and continue to make improvements and not afraid to "bother him."

Vardi said JP Rangaswami, head scientist of the BT Group in Britain, what he thought, what Skype does for telecommunications companies like his.

"Watch this space," Rangaswami said cryptically.

Vardi Rangaswami then asked whether the efforts of the industry provided Skype follows, looks at minimal cost calls around the world.

"I think the parts of the industry, the answer is not to follow what to do either Niklas will find for yourself, a job or work for him," he said.

American entrepreneur Jimmy Wales, whose non-profit charity founded Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, which has 350 million users, said it was a "very trying, very bad deal" because the reference to free competition.

He ruled from advertising on the website now - but left open the possibility it could eventually happen in the future to raise money for charity.

Moderator Vardi expressed surprise that the Internet companies working with small forces, despite their large number of users.

Skype has just over 600 employees, Mozilla, about 250, and only 30 Wikipedia.

What advice would you give the three companies to try to get 100 million users?

"Stay in software, said the first place," Baker Mozilla. "Go to websites and services."

Wales said: "A very pure and simple vision that everyone can immediately understand you."

Zennstrom said the idea was "the lives of consumers easier." And, he emphasizes, "not to do an imitation of somebody else."

BT Rangaswami said he believes that the Web has in the past 20 years, the people more willing to cooperate, to work together. The focus is on-line data ", because by that these people do things," he told The Associated Press.

Ranya Swami said the key is transparency.

"So I think all data.gov initiatives are very, very important, because the foundations of the next generation - how we ensure the transparency of the public information used to really begin to change because of the community," he said .

Yves Daccord, Director-General of the International Committee of the Red Cross, said in a video presentation, Twitter and social media are very important in mobilizing a response to the earthquake in Haiti and give people "a sense that we conclude .

In the future, he said that he expects the victims of disasters to better use social media to their needs for humanitarian organizations to enable them to provide better service to families and to reunite.

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