Tag: analysis

Hidden Interfaces to “Ownerless” Networks

We contacted all major manufacturers of Wifi chipsets in the US (2000-04) and requested interface documentation. We had little success and found unsupportable rationales for secrecy. We contend that constellations of private part 15 equipment should be considered as an “ownerless” whole network where interfaces should be compelled using a procedure similar to Sec. 68.110.

how the unavailability of hw docs slows down mesh networking r&d (and how the FCC is used as a scapegoat for secrecy)

Mashup growth

And it’s not at all hard to see the value of providing APIs and opening them up on the Web. I often cite that Amazon’s most profitable products are its open Web services APIs which earned them over $200m in revenue last year alone. Though Amazon’s spending on its very innovative Web services products such as S3 and Mechanical Turk has declined, it’s also due to the fact that they’ve staked out a huge amount of territory and are years ahead of many of their competitors. So right now, the money in mashups is currently providing APIs, not necessarily in building the mashups themselves yet, at least out on the Web. But in the enterprise it may be a very different story as these new lightweight models for building applications primarily via rapid integration offers the potential to fundamentally revolutionize the economics of corporate software development.

nice ‘state of mashups’ article

Underground Economy

This book treats crime, gangs, poverty, micro-finance, the foundations of cooperative behavior, urban economics, Jane Jacobs, what the police maximize, and why so many barbershops rent out their back rooms to prostitutes, all rolled into one fascinating and profound volume.

the underground economy in the us is a sizable portion of GDP. about time that it got more attention. i also heard that grameen bank is now doing microloans in the us.

Swivel

But then the real fun begins. You and other users can then compare that data to other data sets to find possible correlation (or lack thereof). Compare gas prices to presidential approval ratings or UFO sightings to iPod sales. Track your page views against weather reports in Silicon Valley. See if something interesting occurs.

And better yet, Swivel will be automatically comparing your data to other data sets in the background, suggesting possible correlations to you that you may never have noticed.

sweet. more data web. i hope they have a decent back-end.