The demise of Blue Frog - April 2008

Quoted: The Pew Internet & American Life Project will create and fund original, academic-quality research that explores the impact of the Internet on children, families, communities, the work place, schools, health care and civic/political life. The Project aims to be an authoritative source for timely information on the Internet's growth and societal impact, through research that is scrupulously impartial.

Nice history of innovation of newspapers and the rise of the internet.

Quoted: A moment of sympathy, please, for newspapers, whose readers and advertisers have been fleeing at a frightening rate.

The Dash GPS using an internet connected peer network to get real-time updated traffic information and routing. I think the platform is also open to 3rd party development as well.

The also have Yahoo search integrated so you can search for local businesses and route to them.

Seems like an interesting product - not sure if I would buy this over a more mainstream brand like Garmin or TomTom.

Quoted: Dash Express is the world's first Internet-connected GPS that helps you Drive Smarter. It's an automotive navigation system with two-way connectivity that helps you avoid traffic congestion and get where you're headed as quickly as possible.

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.