Internet

here’s why net neutrality is important

April 23, 2010

This is the world we will live in if net neutrality fails. Related: Letters from Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Vint Cerf (who invented TCP), and Timothy Berners-Lee (who invented the hyperlink). The battle lines are being drawn, with technology companies on the right side and the network/media companies on the wrong side. Luckily, the FCC [...]

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Microsoft Bing: But It ‘s Not Google!

July 13, 2009

I’ve been increasingly using Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing in lieu of Google for my casual searches. One of the things that appeals to me is how the search results are so much more organized and comprehensive than just a list of ten text items. Google’s spartan deisgn was cool and chic ten years ago [...]

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WiFi and WiMax

March 18, 2008

At RWW, they ask whether WiFi will someday go away. I think that WiFi is in no danger of going away, but the ubiquitous web access is already on our doorstep and it’s called WiMax (everyone, chant with me: Xohm. Xohm. Xohm.) The future of web access will be 802.11n in the home and office [...]

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cloudware

February 13, 2008

Cloudware is software that primarily runs in the cloud, rather than on your own hardware. I’ve started cataloging what cloudware I use over at metablog.us, starting with an incredibly handy service from Microsoft called Foldershare.

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all’s well that ends well, sorta

February 9, 2008

Looks like the WGA strike is ending, so TV will be back to “normal” soon. Also, Yahoo just flipped off Microsoft, saying No! to the merger offer because “it undervalues the company”. Details at the respective linky.

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Microsofty! Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle

February 8, 2008

Yahoo’s board of directors is probably going to acquiesce to Microsoft’s buyout offer today: There are only two options left. Accept the offer in principal, and try to increase the price with no negotiating leverage at all, or do a deal with Google to outsource search advertising and, likely, search itself. The board, we’ve heard, [...]

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still scrabbing

January 27, 2008

The deadline came and went and Scrabulous endures. Logging in this morning, scrabbers see the following message: Hi folks We are really grateful to the entire Scrabulous community for the exceptional support that has been provided. It is amazing to see that a small application has touched so many people across the world! There has [...]

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TripIt

January 26, 2008

I’m planning a trip to San Antonio next week, as my wife has a conference in town. I usually assemble all our various flight, hotel, car rental reservation info myself and manually create a travel summary, pulling in maps from google and whatnot. However, for this trip I am trying something new, a service called [...]

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game over

January 22, 2008

Hasbro plays hardball: The saga of Scrabulous is nearing an end. The Facebook version of Scrabble raised the ire of Hasbro and Mattel, which jointly own the rights to the game abroad and in the U.S., respectively. They have already asked Facebook to pull Scrabulous, one of the most popular apps on the social networking [...]

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social linkages online

November 20, 2007

Earlier, I mused about whether the inherent limit on human interaction group size would apply to online social networks or not. That limit is called “Dunbar’s Number” and is estimated to be ~150, based on observations of social networks among primates and then extrapolating to humans taking increased brainpower into consideration. An intriguing piece in [...]

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