Archive for January, 2005
Monday, January 31st, 2005
Here's what the always-excellent telecom analyst Anna-Maria Kovacs has to say about the regulatory implications of the AT&T-SBC deal:
"As Congress works on rewriting the Telecom Act and as the FCC moves ahead on a whole host of issues ranging from inter-carrier compensation to the treatment of broadband and VoIP, the ...
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Thursday, January 27th, 2005
Back when I was at the FCC, then-Chairman Reed Hundt famously torpedoed a rumored BellSouth-AT&T deal by calling it "unthinkable" for regulators. Now comes word that SBC, one of the other Bell companies, is in serious talks to acquire AT&T.
We'll see. The industry has changed a lot ...
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Thursday, January 27th, 2005
A9's visual local search functionality looks very cool. Check out John Battelle's Business 2.0 write-up.
Amazon has an uphill battle with A9, given the popularity of existing search engines like Google and Yahoo!, but out-of-the-box innovations like this are exactly what it will take to make headway.
And who knows, maybe ...
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Wednesday, January 26th, 2005
Seth Godin talks about how video P2P will merge TV and advertising into something new. And, contrary to what you might think, all those informercials would be a positive development.
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Wednesday, January 26th, 2005
The first installment of my semi-regular column on BusinessWeek Online is now up. It looks at the power of the digital back-channel, tying together blogs, social networking, recommendations, the long tail, digital video recorders, cameraphones... and an Indonesian volcano.
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Tuesday, January 25th, 2005
ZDNet: "Ultimately, the convergence trend is not a revolution but a gradual migration. And like wildebeest migrating across the Serengeti plains, they may find themselves in some surprising places along the way."
(If you can't tell, that's from a piece about voice over IP in the enterprise.)
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Tuesday, January 25th, 2005
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Originally uploaded by kwerb.
Heading back from a day of meetings in New York. Other than Amtrak-induced travel delays, it was great.
I love the vitality that oozes up from the streets of Manhattan (and down into the ...
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Tuesday, January 25th, 2005
The Implications of Video P2P on Network Usage [PDF] is a paper I presented at a conference last fall, which will be included in a book from the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information. I point out that, to a first approximation, video peer-to-peer file sharing isn't just a significant use ...
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Tuesday, January 25th, 2005
The Supreme Court will hear the appeal of the Grokster litigation on March 29. The case deals directly with the legality of distributed peer-to-peer file-shsaring services, but its ramifications could go much further. Like the landmark 1997 case striking down the Communications Decency Act, the Grokster decision could ...
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Monday, January 24th, 2005
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Originally uploaded by kwerb.
Wow, what a game. We suffered through wind chills below zero, but it was worth it! The Eagles convincingly beat the Falcons, and for the first time in 24 years, they are going to the ...
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