Just attended Cory Doctorow's keynote address - Europe's Coming Broadcast Flag and Christian Lindholm - What is mobile life really about – Towards the seamless interplay between Hardware, Applications and Services.  Cory made an appeal :

"Don’t let Hollywood’s iron heel come down on your life, your technology, your privacy, your artists and your social institutions—fight back and win the Broadcast Flag fight in Europe, too!"

Good lesson for Asia too.  

The Nokia presentation was disappointing - it was about what you can do with a Nokia phone today - cam phones and lifeblog - don't we all know that already?  It didnot touch upon bigger issues of how manufacturers of cell phones are gearing up for VOIP applications, what they are doing to embrace the open web.   He spent a lot of time on the cam phone aspects but didn't talk us through how mobile technology is about communications or networking or better quality sound or video.

Malthe Sigurdsson is on now and talking about The Skype Brand - he is sharing the Skype philosophy of keeping it simple and opening up through the forums and developer community - it works !  The room is crowded with people squatting on the floor - just shows the interest in Skype here. More on his talk here.

Questions:

How do you make money and how do you decide how much money you make ?  Answer - VC, building userbase - plenty of money to go around, paid-for services where potential for revenues, tie-ups with hardware manufacturers, etc

Rumour - Yahoo buying Skype ? - Answer - there's so much more for Skype to do than being bought over by someone.

Can we buy stock? Answer - yeah we have stickers here :):)

Payment issues - Answer - being worked on - perhaps develop hubs.

It was lovely sharing a table with Jaanus who runs the Skype blog at the London Geek Dinner last week - we talked about India and I shared my Skype wonder with him - I also gave him my Skype wishlist - Skype on cell phones, Skype with video.  He's listening :)