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 […]
Category: Internet
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.
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. […]
FCC Chairman on Internet Telephony
Mercury News ran a story on Michael Powell field trip to the Sillicon Valley (via Jeff Pulver). “Now to be a phone company, you don’t have to weave tightly the voice service into the infrastructure. You can ride it on top of the infrastructure. So if you’re a Vonage, you own no infrastructure. You own […]
IPv6 IRC
Okay, I just realized I can go onto IRC via IPv6 :P *** jseng6 is ~jseng@2001:208:5:1000:220:edff:fe1e:41d1 (James Seng) *** on channels: #joiito *** on irc via server calkins.freenode.net (Milan, IT) The best part is I can still talk to other IRC folks who is still on IPv4. See IPv6 IRC Servers list. I am on […]
The future of Voice
David Beckemeyer has a follow up on his entry on IP Telephony. We are definately in sync altho I have a two comments. First, I agree with David that ENUM is not a magic bullet to the universal addressibility problem with current IP Telephony deployment. If the basic infrastructure is a close network, ENUM, which […]
David Beckemeyer on VoIP
David Beckemeyer gave a very good argument why AT&T, Qwest, etc VoIP announcements are lame, with easy to understand illustration that a layman could easily understand. Having VoIP on the last mile but still retain PSTN on the core network isn’t really VoIP (IP Telephony). It is the same service, same model, just different (last […]
Send an SMS to WSIS
Via ITU SPU blog: People around the world will be able to to participate directly in the WSIS from 9 to 12 December through the Helloworld Project. Short messages can be sent via the Internet or SMS from 14hrs CET on Tuesday December 8. These messages will be projected via laser beam in the six […]
This site has been blocked
Jet lagged, I logon to catch up my blogroll. Until I come across this entry by Loic and this pop-up: :-)