For those of you who have beef with Comcast, this is some good news. AT&T apparently purchased cable internet for 150 phones in a competitor’s region to test the actual connection they had. ars technica has the results, with some pretty slides to boot.
A Penny Saved is twopence dear
copyblogger has a list of great tips for marketing your business online.
Silverlight
Microsoft just introduced a competitor to Flash - a light-weight, .NET based plug-in for delivering RIA, called Silverlight. This will be fun to check out - they even have a SWF to XAML converter for you to leave your old Flash ways!
Pandora asks for help
Pandora, one of my favorite online music players, is asking users to sign a petition against the recent hikes in rates for playing music online. These rate hikes are absolutely astounding, and are effective retroactively for 2006. As I mentioned earlier, NPR is one of the many entities hit hard by this. Let’s hope some [...]
Live Documents
Anyone who’s worked in a virtual group or across time zones knows the frustration of keeping documents synchronized. Email really can make that bad - with multiple emails on the same document it can be confusing to know which is the latest one. At least one company seems to have a great solution: Live Documents. [...]
US decides to hand over ICANN
The US decided today to transition its control of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to a more international body, while retaining control of the root zone file for the internet. The interesting thing will be who actually will make up the new body that controls it, and will they be able to [...]
Phishing gets vocal
Literally. The push for VoIP has given phishers a whole new toy to play with - voice. Users receive an email that instructs them to call a number. The number is an 805 area code, and when they call they are instructed to enter their credit card number. Before you blame the user - how [...]
One Red Paperclip
Saw this on BoingBoing - This guy started with one red paperclip, and traded up to bigger things. Very interesting read.
Tagnautica
This is the coolest tool ever…Can you think of any practical uses for it?
Update on lost phone
Cory from BoingBoing reports that he was threatened with legal action for posting his story. It’s quite humorous I think, but I think it shows the power of the grassroots system that supports blogging. In just days people across the globe have united and offered assistance to her. It’d be nice if we could make [...]