Personal Democracy Forum 2008
Session: Profiles in Anti-Competition
Description
What allowed a guy named Craig who had a list to transform it into one of the biggest sites on the Internet? What allowed 2 guys with a garage as a work space to build one of the top search engines in the world? What allowed a husband and wife with a political opinion and a one-page website to build a 3.2 million person activist organization?
The ability to compete on a level playing field. As the Internet moves society away from a top-down culture and toward a bottom-up culture, key to this new culture's success is the ability of new ideas to easily bubble up and compete against older ideas. But we've seen numerous examples of "the next big thing" being held back by incumbents who are serving as gatekeepers and blocking competition. This panel will shine the spotlight on some of these examples, and offer some insights into how fair competition can work to the benefit of all.
Moderated by Adam Green
The ability to compete on a level playing field. As the Internet moves society away from a top-down culture and toward a bottom-up culture, key to this new culture's success is the ability of new ideas to easily bubble up and compete against older ideas. But we've seen numerous examples of "the next big thing" being held back by incumbents who are serving as gatekeepers and blocking competition. This panel will shine the spotlight on some of these examples, and offer some insights into how fair competition can work to the benefit of all.
Moderated by Adam Green
Session Details
| Speakers: |
Mary Hodder  Marvin Ammori  Christopher Libertelli Amol Sarva  Adam Green |
| Date: | Monday, June 23, 2008 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM |
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| Location: | Breakout Room C |
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By: Mr. John Breyault
on Jun 23 2008 at 09:29 PM GMT
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Good review of openness issue
This was a good review of openness issues and the actions of corporate gatekeepers to keep out competitive services and devices. Not sure what Hodder added, aside from the entertainment of finding out that she did indeed have photos of herself on the Internet. |
Notes
- Mr. John Breyault
on Profiles in Anti-Competition:
-Adam Green, MoveOn.org-
Genesis of panel was in the 700 MHz debate - Green explained wonky stuff in layman's terms for MoveOn's members
Example: Scanning good in store w/cell-phone plugin to get company info
Such devices haven't been allowed by wireless carrier gatekeepers unless 50% cut
Here @ PDF ... - Thirsy Mind
on Profiles in Anti-Competition:
Breakout session: Profiles in anti-competition
Adam Green
Civic Communications Director, MoveOn.Org
Moderator
Why is wireless spectrum important? Right now there is a guy inventing a program that would allow to scan the barcodes of products and give you all kinds of consumer information. These ki ...
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