Mayel de BorniolCo-Founder of BABELVERSE

Why i use Apple instead of Linux or Android day-to-day

I am a geek and a hacker, so of course I love open-source, but...

Linux on a PC is a giant mishmash of:- hardware components- Linux kernel- thousands of software packages, hacked together by thousands of programmers- often device drivers made for Windows

Android is a nice idea, but...

- Android OS by Google- Hardware by manufacturers- Everybody uses a different version- Crapware added by the telecoms- Crapware added by manufacturers

Very fragmented!

No ‘architect’ looking at the big picture, at all the pieces, and thinking through how they should work together

What’s the problem?

So many points of failure!

Study all the elements and environment, envision and then plan what can be built with, then ‘just do it’...

It's a problem for me to communicate, living in another country 

For example

I love the idea in science-fiction of a universal translator

I saw how expensive it is for conferences to get interpreters to come translate at their events

A researcher just published a paper about the trend of people with more than one native language

Some linguists and philosophers think we will lose a lot if we all speak only English

A start-up started offering telecommunications as a cloud service

There are already communities with millions of young people helping each other practice languages

An new open-source project provides many useful features

Voice-over-IP is booming thanks to the adoption of mobile broadband & smartphones

breaking down language barriers

2011/07 - UCN

http://babelverse.com@babelverse

• 1st app for real-time voice translation

• on any device (mobile, PC, telephone)

• powered by a community of multilingual speakers

• launching in 2 weeks at LeWeb!

Babelverse is...

Thank you!

Any questions?

find me at:deborniol.com