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03/06/2008
I spent yesterday at the Hawaii State Capitol as part of Science and Technology Day. About 40 companies in the field of Science and Technology were set up in around the inner lanai of the Capitol building. Legislators, there staff, and other interested parties circled tables to find out what was happening in the Innovation space of Hawaii. Why was I there? Because as a Webolutionary representing Empowered Internet I was showing ZeppOS, an innovative technology that has been practically applied to over 500 companies and organizations. Hawaii has an old standing but hopefully fading sense of inferiority compared to the 'mainland' US. This comes from our agricultural 'plantation' roots as well as being a Kingdom overthrown. But in truth many profound innovations have come from within Hawaii as well as from Hawaii's sons and daughters. Norm Abramson working at the University of Hawaii helped develop the basis for ethernet. The Wikipedia states 'ALOHAnet, also known as ALOHA, was a pioneering computer networking system developed at the University of Hawaii. It was first deployed in 1970, and while the network itself is no longer used, one of the core concepts in the network is the basis for the widely used Ethernet.' Steve Case born and raised in Hawaii pioneered mass internet use with AOL. As I wrote to each legislator prior to the Capitol event, "Now Empowered Internet Solutions is leading a Webolution by empowering business owners, non-profit associations and individuals to take control of their own websites. The technology underlying this paradigm shift of websites without webmasters is called the ZeppOS, the Windows of the Web. ZeppOS is an innovative software conceived of and developed right here in Hawaii by Rob Bertholf. The Zeppo Network has obtained US patents for the software and is poised to change the way the web is used by making it as easy to edit, change and update a website as to write an email or a word document. It is important for Hawaii to have confidence in support of its own innovations in the context of a global economy. That support can come in eliminating legal roadblocks to innovations, anti-business tax regulations as well as supporting investment through tax incentives, and proactively working to establish new companies as permanent residents of Hawaii. Empowered is such an innovative company. I hope that we exposed some of the residents of our Capitol building to the innovative energy of Empowered with a capitol E. |
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