In this week's episode, Phil, Matt, and Scott discuss a variety of technology current events. After a brief travel review, the group begins with an overview of the recent general election and how technology has become so important to voting. Besides the electronic machines now being used for actual voting, there are companies that now sell data mined from public sources that can help interested organizations to better pinpoint influential voters.
This week also saw the release of two new gaming consoles. The group discuss some of the new types of specialty controllers, including one that allows you to play air guitar for real.
Sun's decision to take Java open source is also reviewed. It's to early to say for sure what this will mean, although the end user should see little change. Sun will allow additions to Java, but the basic code must stay the same.
There is also a discussion of Web 3.0, including a review of what it is and if it's new or just a change.
The show ends with a brief review of security issues.
Co-host Matt Asay is vice president of Business Development for Alfresco, the leading open source Enterprise Content Management company. Prior to Alfresco Matt co-founded Novell's Linux Business Office, founded the Open Source Business Conference, and ran embedded Linux vendor Lineo's Network & Communications division. Matt earned a JD from Stanford Law School, where he spent two of his three years studying open source licensing under Professor Lawrence Lessig. He serves on the advisory boards for SugarCRM, JasperSoft, Bungee Labs, MuleSource, and Specifix, and on the board for OSI.
Co-host Scott C. Lemon is CTO of MediaForge - a next generation viral marketing and web enhancement company - and founder of HumanXtensions - an Internet R&D company. Scott's recent history in the computer industry include several small start-ups, along with being Chief Technologist at SCO, Chief Strategist at Vultus, and holding numerous positions during his four tours of duty at Novell. Scott's expertise ranges from computer and wireless hardware technologies, to networking and distributed software applications. As a futurist studying the patterns of evolution, his past experiences in operating systems - CP/M, DOS, Windows, OS/2, NetWare, UNIX, Linux and others - is allowing him to explore the new levels of abstractions provided by the Internet.
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