FTC is urgings companies to close their open proxies. I play a small role in advising IDA to participate in this initiative. Sure, whats the point of closing open proxy now that most spams dont even go through open proxy? But “why not?”. Yes, we can do more but that is a story for another […]
Month: January 2004
Architecture of the Internet
Andrew Odlyzko, author of The many paradox of Broadband, published an equally thought-provoking article: Pricing and architecture of the Internet: Historical perspectives from telecommunications and transportation While engineers and technologist like myself have been arguing the need for “End-to-End” principle either on ideological or technical reasons, Andrew provides an economical perspective of why the “threats” […]
Orkut
Orkut is back after been down for the last few days for upgrade. Google, probably upset for not able to buy friendster has outdone itself this with Orkut. In certain ways, it is better the friendster (at least faster) and less annoying then linkedin. It is best of breed of the two and I love […]
More on outsourcing
Wired ran another article on the outsourcing to India trend. I got a mixed feeling of between been proud to sad for the situation as the article confirmed the predictions i made last year on outsourcing. But there are many lessons to learn from the article, like the one comparing the introduction of computers in […]
Busy busy…
First thing first, happy lunar new year everyone! This year, I spend 3 days back with my parents and totally disconnected. No emails and no blogging. Refreshing but the fun ends when I saw 1500+ emails waiting for me. :-( It been a busy two weeks, particularly at work. This is the time we plan […]
Lessons from history
John Berresford, Attorney for Media Bureau at FCC, just published a draft on the webpage for Harvard Program for Information Resources Policy. It is called “How Government Can Bring New Communications to All Americans: Six1 Lessons from History Discovered by a Libertarian”. (via Dave Farber’s IP list)
WTF
David Isenberg is calling for an bottom-up face-to-face meeting to discuss the end of telephony, about end-to-end principles, smart people, dumb companies, etc etc. Please drop him an email if you are interested.
MT-Redirect plugin
I was having a private discussion with Rojisan in #joiito who suggested to extend the mt-bayesian plugin to become an immunity system for the blogsphere when we got sidetracked. One of the reasons we have blog spammers is because they want to get more links to their site and therefore higher Googlerank for their site. […]
Vint Cerf on the Internet
BBC News have an interview with Vint Cerf on his view on the development of Internet. The next decade, he believes, will see the net spread even further and start to become the basic communications infrastructure for almost anything. To begin with, he thinks, the net will stop being a part of the telephone network. […]
2003 Performance
2003 is a pretty good year for me. There was quite a few stocks which is quite badly beaten in the poor market sentiment despite their fundamentals. For example, I picked up Crayfish (email outsourcing company) for 60cent on a dollar just on their cash value alone and made over 100% profit when they annouce […]