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The long-awaited video record of FiberFete--an invitation-only event held in April in Lafayette, LA that explored the question of "Now that you have fiber, what can you do with it?"--is now available online! To get these kicked off, I thought...
With the Google Fiber project all the rage, I want to take a moment to share my plan of attack for the project if I ran Google in the hopes they find some of these ideas useful. For starters, let's...
Wow! Wow, wow, wow!!! That's all I've been thinking ever since reading the hot-off-the-presses announcement that Google's going to invest in building out open fiber networks to serve at least 50,000 and up to 500,000 households. Their intent is threefold:...
The last 48 hours have born witness to the latest flareup over net neutrality, only this time things were a little different. Instead of a multi-billion dollar ISP being accused of unduly interfering with Internet traffic, the brouhaha stemmed from...
Last week noted techcom analyst Scott Cleland released a report touting that "Google uses 21 times more bandwidth than it pays for." It's an unfortunate, ill-timed, and arguably misinformed attempt to attack Google for being a bandwidth hog. Let's break...
Yesterday myself and millions of other Gmail users were faced with a rather unpleasant experience: we couldn't log in to our email boxes. As my Gmail account is my primary address, I keep most of my contacts saved online, and...
Much ado was made when the recent wireless spectrum options wrapped up and the two biggest winners were AT&T and Verizon. Pundits lamented over the fact the two biggest companies got the two biggest chunks of spectrum as they feared...
The meteoric rise of sites like Google and eBay have long dominated discussions over the potential for online businesses to realize explosive growth. And this truly is a revolutionary aspect of the Internet, providing a platform that allows anyone to...
It's amazing how combining a seemingly endless show floor with limitless choice in nighttime activities can derail the best intentions of any blogger to post throughout the day. Never worry, though, as there have already been many interesting, enlightening experiences...
The New York Times ran an article on Sunday with the title "Google Gets Ready to Rumble With Microsoft." It details the budding battle and clash in corporate cultures between industry giants Microsoft and Google. But the reason I'm linking...
Traditional software delivery models have tended towards near monopolies dominated by major players like Microsoft. Look back even just two years ago and see how much competition Microsoft's Office suite faced and while you may find some competitors, you certainly...
Some lighter fare today leading into the holiday weekend: the top three articles I've read in the last 24 hours. News from Vermont - Continuing consternation over the Fairpoint acquisition of Verizon's lines in that state, and concern about Fairpoint's...
One of the hottest trends in online applications development is the push towards popular sites and applications to open up platforms through which third party developers can extend core functionality however they see fit. The most hyped example of this...
Last week I came across this Reuters article, which reported from the Web 2.0 Summit on an interesting bit of news coming from the mouth of Adobe's CEO Bruce Chizen. The news? That Adobe is working on bringing all of...
Last week I wrote a post inspired by Microsoft's introduction of its HealthVault personal health information service. Today, I read that Google's announced a personal health information records initiative of some sort. There's a total lack of details beyond a...
A couple of big announcements last week from the world of Internet-enabled research. On Monday, Google and IBM teamed up to announce the launch of a program that will open up high powered computing clusters to universities. These computing clusters...
Came across two articles describing further moves by big players into the hosted application space. Today, Google launched Google Presentations, an online alternative to PowerPoint. You can use it to create presentations, collaborate on them, give presentations, organize presentations, and...
Back in July I wrote up a post about the fantastical, rapidly evolving world of online map-making tools, highlighting a handful of innovative applications and musing over their demand for bandwidth. Yesterday, I stumbled upon news that Google had expanded...
Wow, I guess everything moves faster in the Digital Age, even corporate apologies. Less than two weeks after sending an email to Google Video users about Google's plan to stop the service, render all purchased videos unwatchable, and provide a...
On Friday I wrote up a brief analysis of Blockbuster's move to purchase online movie retailer Movielink, highlighting how this space has more competition than it does demand. The download-to-own/rent space bore witness to another major announcement last week, namely Google's plans to disband it's paid-download online video service.
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