Archive for March, 2005
Tuesday, March 29th, 2005
Today, the battle over the future of the Internet will be fought in Washington, DC. The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases: BrandX and Grokster, that could have deep repercussions.
BrandX deals with the treatment of broadband. The FCC has tried to classify the cable modem ...
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Monday, March 28th, 2005
One of the least enjoyable aspects of two small kids at home is that everyone -- and I mean, EVERYONE -- gets sick a lot. The four of us have been ping-ponging colds and other sundry illnesses back and forth non-stop for at least a month. My wife ...
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Saturday, March 26th, 2005
Tom Coates, who works for the BBC, spins out a vision of the future of television that incorporates social software into the experience.
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Saturday, March 26th, 2005
Adam Bosworth has a nice post linking together the "Web 2.0" notion of the Web as an open platform for
applications with search and syndication. Oh, and for good measure, he wraps in the vibe of tech conferences (ETech and PC Forum) as well as the challenges of privacy and ...
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005
The FCC reached a decision this week that could effectively end broadband service as we know it. The order hasn't officially come out yet, but the result was leaked.
The FCC granted a petition by BellSouth to pre-empt state regulators from requiring "naked DSL." The procedural aspects are convoluted, ...
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Monday, March 21st, 2005
I'm pleased to announce that the Supernova 2005 weblog is now up and running. You can subscribe to the RSS feed here.
The blog is an integral part of Supernova, which is coming up June 20-22 in San Francisco. Over the next three months, I'll split my time posting here ...
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Monday, March 21st, 2005
The Economist has an article (subscribers only) quoting me about municipal WiFi networks, like the one Philadelphia is proposing. Local phone and cable companies have been fighting these proposals, even pushing legislation banning cities from deploying broadband connecting for their residents.
The point I make in the piece is ...
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Thursday, March 17th, 2005
John Markoff has a piece today, based on O'Reilly's ETech conference, about how the Grokster case could dampen innovation in areas well beyond music file sharing.
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Thursday, March 17th, 2005
This is an example of the amazing things that happen when people can build on open platforms. It's an app on top of the Flickr photo sharing service, that uses Flickr's open protocols to auto generate a photo montage spelling any word you like:
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Wednesday, March 16th, 2005
So Kevin Martin has been named the new Chairman of the FCC. This is not exactly a surprise, although I'm a bit curious why it took so long -- there must have been some Congressional horse trading in the background.
As a told a reporter earlier this afternoon, Kevin has ...
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