Orkut has done a lot of things “right” like its user-friendly interface. Unfortunately, when it comes to “what next”, it fails quite miserably. It does not know whether if it should be a casual social network like friendster or commerical social network like linkedin. It also not able to tell its users (like me) what […]
Month: February 2004
Scenario Planning: English in decline
Paul Hoffman send me this paper published by David Graddol of British Council which does a scenario planning (futorology :-) and went on to discuss what to do if English is slipping in influence due to demographic and technology trends. Scenarios are not predictions. The point of scenario planning is to help us suspend our […]
IETF, Seoul
I am now sitting in the bar in the Hotel Lotte with fellow IETFers in Seoul. Beer and WiFi..what more could we ask? ps: Oh, dda come over my place for dinner. Yes, I have the Zaurus sync charger cable for you :-)
Verisign sues ICANN
I fall off my chair when I saw this news today. Are they nuts!? The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has no authority to prevent VeriSign from rolling out a search engine for users who mistype Internet addressees, VeriSign said, as well as another feature that allows users to sign up for a […]
Day 5 in Kuala Lumpur
First thing first, a friend pointed out that the ITU comissioned paper didn’t missed the point about “Internet Governance”. I went back to look at it again in detail and realized my mistake. My sincere apologises. I started the day very early with APRICOT AC discussion of the venue for APRICOT 2006. It was a […]
Day 4 in Kuala Lumpur
It is a busy day packed with meetings from 8am to 11pm. With an early meeting with PIKOM followed by keynote panel (Dave Crocker and Suguru Yamaguchi) then Internet Exchange SIG before skipping lunch to attend APIA AGM. After an hour break, I hop into VoIP session and then went off chair the the ENUM/SIP […]
How I wish…
I was reading a article by Steve Gillmor (via Dan Gillmor) where he discuss the problem of having too many updates. Oh boy, how I understand this problem… How I wish there is an RSS reader that can filter and sort feeds into categories so I can read those interest me most. I don’t want […]
Day 3 in Kuala Lumpur
I woke up early this morning, maybe too much beer last night. Or perhaps I was excited over the panel I am suppose to be with Dave Crocker on SPF and antispam. Our offline debates have been colourful so I couldn’t wait for the real thing. But as it turned out, the panel was shifted […]
ITU paper on Internet Governance
ITU comissioned a paper Herding Schrödinger’s Cats: Some Conceptual Tools for Thinking about Internet Governance for its up coming workshop on Internet Governace. (via ITU Newsblog) The paper missed touched on a point which I have ranted before: ICANN is not Internet Goverance. While public see ICANN = internet governance but I see it as […]
IDA allocates 2.3 Ghz and 2.5 Ghz spectrum for Trials and Commercial Deployment
While I am not directly involved in this, I am proud to see this announcement from IDA today! Well done! Congz to all all my friends who been working on this! The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) today announced the allocation of dedicated spectrum bands for trials and commercial deployment of wireless broadband. This […]