ICANN is considering opening up the top level domains to 100's or 1,000's of new ones. Min cost probably $100K to get one of these (and then manage the TLD as your own registrar).

This could lead to a new gold-rush for this name space.

Quoted: The Internet's key oversight agency relaxed rules Thursday to permit the introduction of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of new Internet domain names to join ".com," making the first sweeping changes in the network's 25-year-old address system.

Losses in Microsoft's online services business are approaching $1B/year, according to this article. The author claims this is due to the Innovator's Dilemma. I don't buy the author's thesis that there is a law of nature that makes it impossible for MS to do well on the Internet.

MS seems to have made any number of easy-to-avoid mistakes in their approach to this line of business.

Quoted: Since 1993, Microsoft has been struggling to maintain its leadership position as the Internet has grown ubiquitous.

This sounds like a fair algorithm and a win for "net neutrality". Rather than target specific applications (like bittorrent), Comcase will basically cap the max bandwidth of every customer when the network is at peak load.

Actually - reading Mr. Wener's statements, you may infer that Comcast will identify those users who use the mosth bandwidth HISTORICALLY, and reduce their peak bandwidth more than only occasional bandwidth users.

Quoted: “In the event of congestion, the half percent of people who are overutilizing an excessive amount of capacity will be slowed down subtly until capacity is restored,” the chief technology officer for Comcast, Tony G. Werner, said. “For the other 99.5 percent, their performance will be maintained exactly as they expect it.”

That seems a good solution. Those that are bandwidth hogs, will get throttled. Those that are more judicious in their use, will get better peak-performance.

Science Channel (6-part) series on the history of the internet. Features Ben Slivka and Hadi Partovi!

Quoted: Watch the trials and tribulations of Internet history.

Looks like a cool concept. Just the introductory video up now.

New protocol proposal for inter-planetary packet network. Better handles extreme latency and loss of signal.

The language of the Internet Elite.

Can you guess how I scored? Here are the categories in the Pew Internet "Typology":

Omnivores
Connectors
Lackluster Veterans
Productivity Enhancers
Mobile Centrics
Connected by Hassled
Inexperienced Experimenters
Light but Satisfied
Indifferents
Off the Network

Quoted: Where Do You Fit?
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