We may not have given $30 billion away to charity, however Delib and Microsoft have more in common than meets the eye.  Yesterday, Bill Gates was in London giving a speech to the Institute of Directors about the internet, and how it has democratised the world - with things like blogs empowering individuals and helping give people a voice.

It so happened that at the exact same time, I was pretty much giving the same speech in Windsor to a big corporation, telling them how they need to have their eyes and ears open to the conversations happening around the fringes of the internet, and if they fail to listen and join these conversations, they could well get badly burnt as people power can’t be ignored in the age of the internet.

So there you go, sage words of wisdom from two of the leading technology thinkers of our time (tongue firmly placed in cheek, as I bow to Gates’superior brain-size and pocket-depth).