5.July2008
EarthLink today announced that it has been approved to provide services wifi in New Orleans. According to blog:
"The network will have two levels - a free (and ad-free) service to 300kbps during the recovery effort the city, and paid services in 1mbps up / down. EarthLink will also allow other providers to offer their services over the network, allowing open access and competition. "
There was some seriously strange legal wranglings about whether the city will be able to conclude a contract with anyone to provide this service, and perhaps it was a local state of emergency that allowed it. Given that the incredible reliance on wireless network there during the recovery - why not the federal government subsidize only the upper layer of-service for everyone? This is a silly question, of course, such a policy would interfere with the market and its ability to monetize human suffering. I can not imagine that Earthlink mind. At least permit was not granted the market to partner with local government so that some services at all is available.
Update: There is e-mail statement just added to the Earthlink blog from New Orleans CIO on what people hug him on the street, that the free wifi is on the way. It's interesting account, almost roztrhat Jerker.
edelman acquires pr firm of mozilla many other tech companies
24.June2008
Steve Rubel just wrote that his employer, Edelman gained Silicon Valley PR company A & R Partners. Rubel says that many companies are already blogging clients. Edelman leadership appears focused on the introduction of corporate communications in the new world of social media in some very cool ways, even if learning from mistakes, such as Walmart bloggers situation. Here is a list of clients for the A & R, you may notice that Mozilla is there. Interesting. These efforts are said to be based in honesty - and this is a radical concept.
Valleywag has a more Valley-centric take on this.
Nicholas Carr has a hilarious response to Rubel style cheerleading open conversation as the central importance. Well, do not forget to comment.
Steve Rubel just wrote that his employer, Edelman gained Silicon Valley PR company A & R Partners. Rubel says that many companies are already blogging clients. Edelman leadership appears focused on the introduction of corporate communications in the new world of social media in some very cool ways, even if learning from mistakes, such as Walmart bloggers situation. Here is a list of clients for the A & R, you may notice that Mozilla is there. Interesting. These efforts are said to be based in honesty - and this is a radical concept.
Valleywag has a more Valley-centric take on this.
Nicholas Carr has a hilarious response to Rubel style cheerleading open conversation as the central importance. Well, do not forget to comment.
patent on social networking granted to friendster
20.June2008
"Friend-what?" I request you may be, but it's true: Red Herring reported that Friendster, the ill-osudový social networking that (I think) it all started, has been granted a patent for a social network. After the great tradition of painstakingly clear patent language, Friendster own patent for "system, method and apparatus for connecting users in an online computer system based on their relationships within social networks."
Friendster, whether it will use the time-tested 'if you can not beat' em, take them to court 'strategy is yet to be seen, but to their credit: they are apparently applied for a patent (issued on June 27 of 2006) way back in the day, before they fell from their perch.
"Friend-what?" I request you may be, but it's true: Red Herring reported that Friendster, the ill-osudový social networking that (I think) it all started, has been granted a patent for a social network. After the great tradition of painstakingly clear patent language, Friendster own patent for "system, method and apparatus for connecting users in an online computer system based on their relationships within social networks."
Friendster, whether it will use the time-tested 'if you can not beat' em, take them to court 'strategy is yet to be seen, but to their credit: they are apparently applied for a patent (issued on June 27 of 2006) way back in the day, before they fell from their perch.
imagination cubed online whiteboard
19.June2008
Ok, so it may not be everything, "new" and some of you might not find it particularly "exciting", but hell, I thought it was super. Developed by General Electric, Imagination Cubed (so-force, called the I ^ 3, for self-serving purposes do not write to me every time) is another of these multi-user online whiteboards. As I said, nothing special, especially about. . Just visit the site and invite up to 2 more people to simultaneously use your white board. When you're done, you can print your final product, see a repetition of what happened, or save the white board at a later time. I think this would be really useful for those times when you were trying to explain to their mothers-in-law how to use TiVo to record "Today in Cats" and that she needs to "press the green button, this is not one second, let me here with you! "You can add text to your drawing, change the background color, and displays the grid, which will help draw more geometrically.
Wrap this all to nougat AJAX friendly interface and get a winning Web 2.0 applications. Now, if only they could find a way to monetize ...
Ok, so it may not be everything, "new" and some of you might not find it particularly "exciting", but hell, I thought it was super. Developed by General Electric, Imagination Cubed (so-force, called the I ^ 3, for self-serving purposes do not write to me every time) is another of these multi-user online whiteboards. As I said, nothing special, especially about. . Just visit the site and invite up to 2 more people to simultaneously use your white board. When you're done, you can print your final product, see a repetition of what happened, or save the white board at a later time. I think this would be really useful for those times when you were trying to explain to their mothers-in-law how to use TiVo to record "Today in Cats" and that she needs to "press the green button, this is not one second, let me here with you! "You can add text to your drawing, change the background color, and displays the grid, which will help draw more geometrically.
Wrap this all to nougat AJAX friendly interface and get a winning Web 2.0 applications. Now, if only they could find a way to monetize ...
social software coverage now on download squad
17.June2008
Yes, friends, this is the end of time - or at least until the end of this blog, as we know it. Our social Software coverage was included in a larger entity, although without the usual acquisition rumours, drunk the opening party (complete with Flickr RSS) or a sudden influx of VC money. Our own Download Voj will proudly take over news coverage in the social software space, so tune it to their daily fix, set a new mark of social software category, or main Voj Download page and redirect your insatiable newsreaders for Social Software RSS feed and / or Voj withdrawal main RSS feed.
Yes, friends, this is the end of time - or at least until the end of this blog, as we know it. Our social Software coverage was included in a larger entity, although without the usual acquisition rumours, drunk the opening party (complete with Flickr RSS) or a sudden influx of VC money. Our own Download Voj will proudly take over news coverage in the social software space, so tune it to their daily fix, set a new mark of social software category, or main Voj Download page and redirect your insatiable newsreaders for Social Software RSS feed and / or Voj withdrawal main RSS feed.
heat mapping your transportation decisions
15.June2008
Mysociety.org British tech nonprofit project, which builds and provides new tools for civic good, has released a beautiful series of maps illustrating the various data transmission around England. See, for example, the sample map on whether public transport (buses, light rail is the best in red) or a private car (blue) you will be faster from Cambridge station to any other part of the country. (Cambridge is in the lower right corner, nearish London.) Project has created many other maps, as well, illustrating the different figures.
This is interesting, of course, as proof of concept. I am sure that it was time-consuming and costly to create, but will not always be the case. If organizations such as public transport agency expose their data via the API then you can imagine, it appears as to be only a matter of force, which is only a matter of time. Would not it be great to be able to look at the map, as to any way you planning? "I am in the 44th and Killingsworth in Portland, and I wanted to go to the 15th and Belmont. If I'm willing to be removed from within a few blocks, it would go faster on light rail or car? How long it may take, I to get to a certain place? special place that I headed there is no public transport dead zones, is it? "Oh, you can answer questions! This is just one of many maps published by MySociety, which is a good thing, with regard to Margaret Thatcher's famous (attributed) quote - "Man, who even after age 26."
Mysociety.org British tech nonprofit project, which builds and provides new tools for civic good, has released a beautiful series of maps illustrating the various data transmission around England. See, for example, the sample map on whether public transport (buses, light rail is the best in red) or a private car (blue) you will be faster from Cambridge station to any other part of the country. (Cambridge is in the lower right corner, nearish London.) Project has created many other maps, as well, illustrating the different figures.
This is interesting, of course, as proof of concept. I am sure that it was time-consuming and costly to create, but will not always be the case. If organizations such as public transport agency expose their data via the API then you can imagine, it appears as to be only a matter of force, which is only a matter of time. Would not it be great to be able to look at the map, as to any way you planning? "I am in the 44th and Killingsworth in Portland, and I wanted to go to the 15th and Belmont. If I'm willing to be removed from within a few blocks, it would go faster on light rail or car? How long it may take, I to get to a certain place? special place that I headed there is no public transport dead zones, is it? "Oh, you can answer questions! This is just one of many maps published by MySociety, which is a good thing, with regard to Margaret Thatcher's famous (attributed) quote - "Man, who even after age 26."
Jookster
13.June2008
compound feed to the web archiving, social networking, search and included new services, which I think has some interesting things going with him. After logging on Jookster profile and install Firefox tool-bar, users have access to personalized searches and instant web archiving. Click the Jook This tool-bar immediately archive copy of the page you are visiting and indices for the search. You can return to their comfort and search through all the sites you have jooked. Adding friends with similar interests expands its search results include things jooked them and their friends, their friends and friends, etc. You can specify how many degrees of separation, you want to find. Search results are ranked according to how many levels of people who jooked page, is far from you. This brings in the concept, which is a lot of talk about the Supernova conference this week, the fact that the outdoors on the Internet, use trusted contacts, so look for information and assess the quality of information based on what you think of your friends. Jookster bring this idea to the Web site, and I think that could be the start of something big. Imaging looking for information on the ecosystem of the Amazon rainforest and is able to see that a biologist, you should know jooked result, but that it would immediately reassure you that the information would be good?
I think that Jookster is a great idea, even if it appears that this is one of the many startups that will go belly up in this boom, I believe that this basic concept, which will include what we are using for years to come .
compound feed to the web archiving, social networking, search and included new services, which I think has some interesting things going with him. After logging on Jookster profile and install Firefox tool-bar, users have access to personalized searches and instant web archiving. Click the Jook This tool-bar immediately archive copy of the page you are visiting and indices for the search. You can return to their comfort and search through all the sites you have jooked. Adding friends with similar interests expands its search results include things jooked them and their friends, their friends and friends, etc. You can specify how many degrees of separation, you want to find. Search results are ranked according to how many levels of people who jooked page, is far from you. This brings in the concept, which is a lot of talk about the Supernova conference this week, the fact that the outdoors on the Internet, use trusted contacts, so look for information and assess the quality of information based on what you think of your friends. Jookster bring this idea to the Web site, and I think that could be the start of something big. Imaging looking for information on the ecosystem of the Amazon rainforest and is able to see that a biologist, you should know jooked result, but that it would immediately reassure you that the information would be good?
I think that Jookster is a great idea, even if it appears that this is one of the many startups that will go belly up in this boom, I believe that this basic concept, which will include what we are using for years to come .
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)