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Thursday, 6th December 2007

Conversation with Bill Gates about IE8 and Microsoft Transparency. Molly asks the tough questions about IE8—it looks like there should be a lot of IE8 material at MIX08 next year.

# 11:47 am / bill-gates, ie, ie8, microsoft, mix, molly-holzschlag

The companies that couldn't beat Microsoft have all died, and evolution has resulted in three very different types of companies that are each immune to Microsoft's strategies in their own way. Yet all are still vulnerable to the same thing: a better product. For the end users, this is a good position for the industry to be in.

Ian Hickson

# 3:43 pm / apple, competition, google, ian-hickson, microsoft, open-source

CouchDB Roundup. The CouchDB project is interested in contributions from people who can write a large file driver for Erlang, help figure out the CouchDB security model and build scripts to help benchmark performance, scalability and reliability.

# 3:48 pm / couchdb, erlang, helpwanted

Google Chart API (via) Really neat charting API from Google—simply encode your chart data and configuration options in to a URL and Google will serve up a nicely rendered PNG. No API key required. It’s like a documented version of the Google Groups rounded corners API.

# 5:37 pm / apis, charting, google, graphics, png

DiSo: Distributed Social Networking applications (via) New project to prototype a decentralised social network on top of WordPress, using OpenID, microformats and social whitelisting.

# 5:48 pm / diso, microformats, openid, prortablesocialnetworks, socialwhitelisting

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