We had a great time talking to David Yang and visiting Cybiko in Moscow when I worked at Palm. Cybiko was an amazing combination of Russian hacking genius, genu

We had a great time talking to David Yang and visiting Cybiko in Moscow when I worked at Palm. Cybiko was an amazing combination of Russian hacking genius, genuine software innovation, and extremely misguided business thinking. Like many failures, it was a Frankenstein combination of like 60% of a great product--for 2010, not 2000, though. Yang was really fun, he showed us 100 kids writing Cybiko games and 250 linguists making NLP software for his other company, which I think still exists. I remember high speed driving around Luzhkov's Moscow, lots of pretty girls, and lots of vodka.