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Celebrities. Interesting People. What is SOPA ? IDEA CITY - The Smartest People. Why Mark Zuckerberg Is The Heir To Steve Jobs' Legacy. TED. Do Lectures - Talks that inspire action. Tech. Sean Parker at the Web 2.0 Summit yesterday (photo by JD Lasica) Sean Parker, CEOs of Salesforce & eBay highlight day 1 of Web 2.0 Summit The one conference I try to make every year is the venerable Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.
I’ve now been to seven out of the eight annual gatherings of entrepreneurs, Silicon Valley luminaries and tech-savvy business people. Here are some highlights from day one of the three-day conference, which you can follow live on Livestream. And here’s my photo set of the conference speakers on Flickr. Highlights of Web 2.0 Summit 2011 Sean Parker, who was immortalized on screen by Justin Timberlake as a brilliant, rich party boy in “The Social Network,” was captivating when questioned by host John Battelle: • On Facebook: “The problem isn’t privacy but the glut of information available to power users” who prop up the network. • Would it kill Wikipedia to include photo credits for photos of living individuals? Phoenix Labs. Charge Your Cell Phone with Your Voice. South Korean researchers developed a new technique for turning sound into electricity, allowing a mobile phones to be charged while the user is talking over the phone.
At the Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, Dr. Sang-Woo Kim is working on a revolutionary new technology that he hopes will change the way we use our cell phones in the future. So far there have been several ideas floating around for tapping into unused energy to charge up cell phones, including solar power, surrounding vibration, and even electromagnetic energy which fills the air around us at all times. So far one type of untapped energy source which has been overlooked according to Dr. Sang-Woo is sound waves. He and his team are looking at ways to convert the energy from speech, music, or even simple noise into useful electrical power which can be used to charge a cell phone.
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