Keith Teare responsed to my last blog entry so let me do a quick one to reply him. (ps: Yes, Keith is also a friend … great guy but we do disagree sometimes. :-) First of all, I like to clarify that I think Site Finder is a service which will benefit many end-users. But […]
Year: 2003
On DNS Innovation…
A recap of the events… A few days ago, CNN reported an interview with Stratton Scalvos, CEO of Verisign on their controvesial Site Finder service and the need to allow Verisign to “innovate the DNS infrastructure”. Kevin Werbach, former counsel for FCC, promptly dismissed Stratton and argued that innovation should be done above but not […]
IP convergence eat away at voice services cash cow
Via ITU Newsblog According to the a Yankee Group survey, IP convergence is forcing European telecoms operators to re-evaluate market strategies and move away from their traditional cash cow voice services and circuit-switched networks to packet-based infrastructures. Amongst the 25 incumbent and alternate operators surveyed across 16 European countries, two thirds of operators expect traditional […]
ITU actually got (part of) it!
Today, I catched up with my blogroll (which I lag very behind due to spending all my free time on the bayesian plugin), and was kind of surprise to see this on ITU Newsblog. Public IP telephony would create a wide open door for new competitors to walk in and take away all the value […]
Problem with blacklist
Jay Allen, the author of MT-blacklist, commented in a discussion at Q Daily News: While I will agree that many blacklist implementations and models are flawed, I still haven’t heard an valid criticism specifically of MT-Blacklist’s implementation (other than a couple of bugs which will be ironed out in the next version), but would be […]
Bayesian filter for MT
Update: Michah Valine has taken over the maintenance of MT-Bayesian Update: Please read the problems with MT-Bayesian. Many people have complained about my “Solution for comments spams” is unfriendly to disabled or those who do not have a graphic browser. Hearing your feedbacks, I spent the last 2 days working on a bayesian plugin. To […]
Predicting the future, Part 2: “local industry”
I wrote about Outsourcing in Part 1 of Predicting the future a month ago and I thought it is about time I write a sequel. So here is Part 2: “local industry”. Like Part 1, lets look at industry revolution and how railroad changed the business landscape. Railways bring people closer together and allow goods […]
Andy Grove on Outsourcing
Andy Grove, CEO of Intel, warns the danger of outsource: The U.S. software industry is about to lose jobs and market share to foreign competitors unless the government acts quickly to fight protectionist trade policies and double U.S. productivity, he said. Actually, I wrote about the trend of outsourcing in Predicting the future a month […]
Solution for comments spams
Update 4th Feb 2005: Looking for a solution to deal with Trackback spams? Take a look at my TrackbackAntiSpam? Apparently, there are some automated bots which has been spamming comments on movabletype blogs. While it is easy to ban the IP and remove the posts, it takes a lot of time and effort to play […]
ASEAN Economic Community
From Singapore BusinessTimes: The Asean Economic Community (AEC) is an ambitious plan to create a stable, prosperous and competitive Asean economic region in which there is free flow of goods, services, investment and skilled labour and a freer flow of capital, equitable economic development and reduced poverty and socio-economic disparities by the year 2020. This […]