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Three Good Ideas From Gnomedex

by admin on July 1st, 2006

When my aunt is looking at travel photos, she only wants to see my best three. In that vein, here are the three most interesting ideas that I heard at Gnomedex, the geeky Seattle technology conference:

• Tara Hunt: Software companies don't necessarily have to aspire to become the 800 lb gorilla in a given sector (why can't we have eighty 10 lb spider monkeys instead?).
• Phil Torrone: Why don't we have more open source hardware?
• Mitch Ratcliffe: We need to open source the presidential election, providing way more acces and making it like a reality TV show. If the camera is constantly over the candidate's shoulder, that might re-engage the populace. If you were an unlikely candidate in the primaries, it might make the difference.

Derek Miller appears to have the best summaries of the sessions.

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