Sylvain Zimmer

Speech about innovation, openness and creative commons

Joining us via skype, wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales talks about open source search engines

Funny coincidence (even if there seem to be people on strike every day here) : I’m flying from Paris to Brisbane for the second time and once again, big demonstrations all around the city. Luckily there’s no strike at the airport!

I’ll spend my flight reading the seemingly excellent book Collective Intelligence. I’ve only gone throught the first chapters but it is already one of the best books I’ve read from O’Reilly.

I just got back from Wikimania 07 in Taipei. I had the chance to present Jamendo twice, both at a Creative Commons Taiwan conference and at Wikimania itself.

This week in Taipei was a real eye-opener, I met a lot of people and discovered some new interests… more on that later.

In the meantime, here is my presentation: