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- Frankston's pedestrian common sense
- Frankston's pedestrian common senseCould listen to Taxman...... and get the same effect.I thought this dystopia would be one in which Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and all charge off their costs of doing business to people who don't use their services.Why? Because they can.Don't recognize this "Microsoft Tax"? It's being...
- Discussion threads 2006-05-30
- Frankston's Threadlogs (#1): "Enter walled garden here"
- Frankston's Threadlogs (#1): "Enter walled garden here"Almost as stupid as the ZDNet M$hill Blogs..Get your pomspoms and checks from MS, boys!I sometimes do this in emailIt's faster than summarizing a discussion, but that means that the time-shifted chat requires time from the email recipient or here blog reader who...
- Discussion threads 2005-05-26
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- Net neutrality debate re-ignites
- The recent blocking of BitTorrent by Comcast has re-ignited the network neutrality debate. Rep. Rick Boucher has called Comcast on the carpet, but AT&T has responded forcefully. They not only deny the need for network neutrality, they call it a positive harm, adding there is no...
- Blog posts 2007-10-25
- Fixing our fraying Internet infrastructure
- Fixing our fraying Internet infrastructureThe FCC has given Telco's...everything they want. There is no reason for any infrastructure issues. UNLESS, maybe what the telco's want is totally self serving regardless of its effect on the rest of us. In my opinion the FCC's policies regarding telco's need to...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-11
- Phony choices in the net neutrality debate
- Phony choices in the net neutrality debateThe Internet has always had some level of intelligenceThe Internet has always had some level of intelligence. As the father of the Internet Robert Kahn says: "I'm against anything that bans intelligence inside the cloud". Even Vint Cerf tries to shy away...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-10
- Frankston: Who's pirating bandwidth these days? You or AT&T (and peers)
- Frankston: Who's pirating bandwidth these days? You or AT&T and peersAnd of course the ISPs will say ...Unfortunately wired capacity is not in the "public domain" likethe radio spectrum which the government either allocates forfree for public service or auctions off for a fee for "for profit"use.The ISPs invested money...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-07
- Frankston: Who's pirating bandwidth these days? You or AT&T (and peers)
- Bob Frankston (co-inventor of the electronic spreadsheet) has been tirelessly spending the last few years trying to shed light on the fact that there's plenty of network capacity out there and that anybody particularly the carriers and ISPs that tell you something different are full of it. They're just reserving...
- Blog posts 2007-09-07
- Victorian SurfCAM (widget)
- Victorian SurfCAM displays several cams from a list of popular surf beaches that includes Gunnamatta, Sorrento, Flinders, Torquay, Suicide, 2nd Reef, Crunchy Point, Woolamai, and Frankston. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Software downloads 2007-07-24
- Bob Frankston: No more monkeys jumping on the bed
- Bob Frankston, the guy who co-invented the electronic spreadsheet and who spearheaded Microsofts original home network strategies, routinely rants about allowing intelligence into the middle of the Internet. To paraphrase his many essays, "things were working fine when nodes could just talk to each other without a monkey in the...
- Blog posts 2006-10-20
- Frankston: Put the regulatorium out of our misery
- Frankston: Put the regulatorium out of our miseryInteresting but How...can we kill the regulatorium? Perhaps we can transform the regulatorium into a symposium (I'll bring the wine). Then we can visit the vomitorium. Seriously though while I applaud the sentiment I question the implementation.Industry regulationI think it is up to...
- Discussion threads 2006-06-23
- Visicalc co-founder offers a modest proposal
- Essential to the open source argument is the idea that the basic infrastructure of the information age is just that -- infrastructure -- and the public interest demands it be treated as such. This argument is generally accepted in the software arena. It is at the heart of the Internet,...
- Blog posts 2006-05-30
- Knowledge/Information centricity vs document centricity
- Mentioning "knowledge centricity" is like using the word "paradigm." People really roll their eyes when the abstract terms slip off tongues as evidenced by the way my colleague Dan Farber characterized my usage of the phrase as a dropped bomb at the end of yesterday's Dan & David Show....
- Blog posts 2006-05-26
- Is T-Mobile taking the smart out of smartphone and the I out of ISP?
- Dana Blankenhorn (my fellow ZDNet blogger who one year ago saw promise in T-Mobile's Web N' Walk service), eat your heart out. The walled-garden is back. According to a ZDNet UK report, at the same time T-Mobile is rolling out super high bandwidth wireless broadband network,...
- Blog posts 2006-05-12
- Telcos checkmate net neutrality. Bring on the mesh (or I'll move to France)
- Maybe now, the citizens of the US will recognize a largely overlooked 2005 FCC ruling for what it was: the clever positioning of a bishop in a high stakes game of chess that looks to have ended today with a checkmate of Internet neutrality (aka "net neutrality"). In...
- Blog posts 2006-04-06
- Boucher's route to network neutrality may run through the Judiciary Committee
- Rep. Rick Boucher of Virginia told the Freedom2Connect conference today he will try to get strong network neutrality language into the Telecommunications Act rewrite going before a House committee tomorrow, and failing that will go after the Whitacre Tiering plan through the House Judiciary Committee.In answer to a question from...
- Blog posts 2006-04-04
- Dave Isenberg's rebel alliance fights for network neutrality
- A few hundred activists, technologists and Internet veterans are locked in a Silver Spring, Maryland movie theater today trying to create an alliance that will beat the Bells.The Freedom2Connect conference has a lot of Internet digirati star power. In addition to organizer David Isenberg, and sponsor Jeff Pulver, I spied...
- Blog posts 2006-04-03
- Without 'Net neutrality' will consumers pay twice?
- Without 'Net neutrality' will consumers pay twice?Delaying the InevitableBroadband providers, usually telephone or cable companies, are used to controlling everything in their networks including access, equipment and features. This is how they make money. But they know that the future is that of the "dumb network", where the intelligence is...
- Discussion threads 2006-02-07
- Can Gordon Cook's little list change the world?
- For the last week I've been out of pocket, inhaling data through a firehose, trying to save the Internet.I was invited to a private mailing list by Gordon Cook, on behalf of a new e-book by Bruce Kushnick called the $200 Billion Broadband Scandal. The book describes how the Bell...
- Blog posts 2006-02-02
- The bandwidth scarcity myth
- In one of his latest missives from CES, Bob Frankston reminds us of how bandwidth isn't nearly as scarce as some would lead you to believe and that it's just that some people are making up reasons for why most of what's there needs to be dominated by...
- Blog posts 2006-01-11
- Is the Internet broken?
- Bob Frankston keeps telling me he's trying to fix the Internet. Ask him what's wrong with it. But sit down. The answer is complicated, you may not understand it all, but you'll walk away convinced that it is indeed broken. Venture capitalist Brad Feld Mobius Ventures...
- Blog posts 2006-01-11
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