Archive for August 3rd, 2008
Net Neutrality and Metered Broadband
Yesterday Chris Albrecht writing on GigaOM pointed out that NBC is warning users that it’s Olympic download service is “not recommended for people with dialup or metered broadband Internet access (emphasis mine).” Chris predicts “That is just a taste of things to come — especially if you’re a fan of video services like Hulu.” Last Friday the FCC voted to uphold a complaint against Comcast for blocking BitTorrent (software for file sharing) traffic and or...
Challenge the Status Quo. Innovate!
Just because everybody always did things one way doesn’t mean it was ever the best way of doing something or even the right way. There are times when YOU need to challenge YOUR ways and do things the way YOU feel they should be done. Tags: Entrepreneurship, leadership, Entrepreneur, Jeff Pulver Please consider leaving a comment. And feel free to find me on twitter and continue this conversation. ...
In Case You Missed These
It’s 2018: Who owns the cloud? Yo FCC! Are you doing anything about metered broadband? NewTeeVee Start-Up Watch: Onecast, Zadby, Anvato, GoAnimate. Google moves to reinvent transportation. Alcatel-Lucent: Sign of an industry malaise India getting ready for 3G Wireless Broadband. Even IBM’s Got Computing Clouds HP, Yahoo & Intel create compute cloud. BT buys Ribbit for $105 million. ...
Blogging Blind
With access to the Web mostly limited to my Blackberry over the past two weeks, I’ve been blogging blind. That is, I’ve been pretty much unaware of the “news” by not being able to easily check Techmeme, Hacker News, News.com, Blogrunner, Twitter, Google Reader, etc. On one hand, it’s challenging to write topical blog posts when the news is quietly passing you by, or it isn’t news anymore by the time you read it in the newspaper. On the other hand, it’s ...
Skype designs away the need for technical support
PC Magazine sponsored The Best (and Worst) Tech Support in America, a customer support satisfaction survey for VoIP service providers, among other categories. Methodology: They surveyed PCmag readers who were also customers of Optimum Voice, Vonage [congratulations on the new CEO gig, Mr. Lefar], AT&T CallVantage, magicJack, Time Warner Cable digital phone, Comcast Digital Voice and Skype. Dashes indicate insufficient data for meaningful results. Skype’s ratings were within 10% of av...
The More Things Change, the More the Advertising Bottom Line Stays the Same
I seem to be on a retro track these days. I tripped over this Team Rubber post recently about the father of “measured” advertising, Claude C. Hopkins, whose 1923 classic “Scientific Advertising,” broke new ground for the then-infant advertising industry. “For those who are sometimes tempted to believe that advertising has been thoroughly re-invented by Google, Hopkins is a salutatory read,” says Team Rubber’s writer. “The severest test of an adve...
Warning Sign: Metered Broadband Already a Hassle
We’ve talked before that metered access is a boneheaded idea that is bad for innovation, bad for Microsoft and Google, and ultimately bad for you. Until today, the idea seemed like an eventuality, not an immediate reality. But then NBC and TonicTV launched a new service that lets you download video from the Olympics and watch it offline. Right next to the installation instructions was this “important”note: That’s the first warning I’ve seen about a particular serv...
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