Tag: internet

All aboard

We’re pleased to announce that we have acquired GrandCentral Communications, a company that provides services for managing your voice communications. GrandCentral is an innovative service that lets users integrate all of their existing phone numbers and voice mailboxes into one account, which can be accessed from the web. We think GrandCentral’s technology fits well into Google’s efforts to provide services that enhance the collaborative exchange of information between our users.

as customer-hostile industries like telcos and music are invaded by the software industry, features go up, prices reach zero, and customer satisfaction increases.

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between that and nathan eagle, sub saharan africa is up and coming

Safari Fake News

“The “fastest browser on any platform” claim is based on faulty implementations of the Date object and the load event, and is therefore untrustworthy.”

Don Hillary

definitely not your father’s campaign video. no kissing of babies or wearing of hardhats.

Germany Idiocy

Google might disable Gmail in Germany as last fallback should the German government maintain its position in regards to a newly passed law on record-keeping and supervision of internet traffic. According to this law, email services here will be forced to maintain personally identifiable records attached to email accounts. What exactly this might mean for Google I don’t know, but perhaps it would result in Gmail having to start requiring full addresses (and perhaps even having to verify an address by sending a snail mail to the user). As usual in these circumstances, the law is pushed through in the name of fighting “terrorists.”

fighting stupid and harmful laws

Internet structure

3 distinct regions are apparent: an inner core of highly connected nodes, an outer periphery of isolated networks, and a mantle-like mass of peer-connected nodes.

Televangelism

Watch Current.tv. On cable television or online. It’s like what The Daily Show would be if it were a 24-hour network and Jon Stewart didn’t always have to be funny. It’s like YouTube without the 99% crap. It’s like watching a Buddha Bar DJ surf the Web. It’s like MTV 20 years ago, but with more substance. I am a highly targeted TV watcher – I focus on movies and specific shows like Heroes, Lost, Frontline/World, and The Daily Show. I have never watched a channel as an entity, keeping it on to see what comes next. Until Current. It draws from the best, not the worst, qualities of our present (avoided the use of “current” there, yup) media era, and I can’t stop watching.

dream job? TV is very much dead to me, but this does sound intriguing.

Under Construction

i miss the little construction worker guy. where is he now?

Disposable phone number

Numbr is Craigsnumber re-branded with a lot of cool new features. Numbr supports 23 US cities, can forward calls to up to 2 phones, blocks telemarketers, and offers a Do Not Disturb option.

Amazing what can be done by replacing clunky, hardwired systems with yet another layer of indirection.

Germany Censorship

i suspect european privacy laws will mean that the interesting stuff happens elsewhere, and we’ll see people virtually flocking to the jurisdiction that suits them. why not just offer flickr in german, on the .com domain, and sidestep this nonsense?