For past three days I have come under a severe comment spam attack, and this has forced me to do what I never wanted to do – go for moderated comments and only for registered users. I hate to do this, but the evil bastards who spam us bloggers are to blame. The scum that they are, they are ruining the whole weblog experience. I think it is time for weblog tool developers to step-up to the plate and come-up with more humane way to over come this problem.
[...] A reader who is a happy Verizon’s FIOS customer left an interesting comment on one of the older posts. He said he loved the service, but decided to save some cash and wanted to switch back to the older technologies. My problem is that Verizon monopolizes your house once FIOS is installed. By removing your copper wire you are now forced to stay with Verizon until other carriers have fiber optic capabilities. I did not find out about this until I wanted to switch back to DSL to save some money. They said “Nope, can’t” I have not heard of this before, and if you have, then drop me a note, or leave a comment. It is understandable given that they are spending a lot of money rolling out the service, but why rip out the copper? In Wired Posted Friday, October 14, 2005 at 1:34 PM PT [...]
[...] Google ofrecerá una conexión WiFi de 300kbit/s para el área de San Francisco a pedido del Alcalde Gavin Newsom, San Francisco será la mejor zona de pruebas para futuros proyectos de Google dijo Chris Sacca. Esta será una conexión contínua. Me pregunto cual será la reacción de la competencia ante el crecimiento acelerado de Google? Mas info aqui [...]
[...] Om Malik : » Google’s Riya Designs? [...]
[...] UPDATE: Om says that there are also links to MSN Music and eMusic’s services. There are no links to Yahoo Music, which is curious, since its not like MSN isn’t a competitor as well. There are more links to iTunes than any other store, which may speak to the size of iTunes music library. Posted: December 15, 2005 by Nathan Weinberg in: [...]
[...] Like what this commenter at Om’s blog said: [...]
[...] Updated: December 27, 2005: The wholesale blog plagiarism is a much wider problem than most of us realize. In the past few days, as we tried to get one site shut down, many more examples have come to light that are simply ripping the content, and repurposing it for making Ad dollars. I can list many a few names here, but why give them the traffic. Some suggest no-more-full feeds, which has sparked off a whole different debate. I am not cutting off the full feeds because of some people are not doing the right thing. That doesn’t mean I am not worried about this whole trend. I turned to Dick Costolo, CEO of Feed Burner and asked him if he could do something. Dick replies… [...]
[…] Via Om Malik’s Broadband Blog, “The New Office Space“: “No office space was rented, communication was primarily through email lists and a private wiki, and meetings were held at cafes with free internet, with notes and ideas quickly disseminated to those who couldn’t attend. When a contact was needed to help out with services such as advertising, sponsorships or donations, cell phones came out and calls were made, and issues were often resolved before the meeting was even over.” […]
[…] Our latest podsession is about location based services, and their impact on privacy. Though there is a lot of excitement about free wifi, nothing in the world is free, as we point out in this week’s podsession. We also look at the impact of LBS from mobile operators in this edition as well. […]
[…] Gizmo Project 2.0, Out Now: “Gizmo Project, a soft phone developed by Michael Robertson’s SIPphone has been upgraded to what else: version 2.0. And it is truly 2.0, and has some major enhancements. (Michael’s Thoughts can be read here.) […]
[…] Del.icio.us Redesigns, Adds Hotlist: “Del.icio.us has redesigned its home page, and add a new hot list feature. I like this hot list feature! […]
[…] Vincent, in response to a post on the site, had said, “Remember what they say folks: those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.” I have written about start-ups for so long, and have always wanted to see if I had the chops to build something from scratch. With well wishes and support of my community, I hope I can. […]
[…] SoonR’s Big Day: “Remember SoonR, the company that has come-up with ways to access your desktop from your mobile phone? […]
[…] YouTube Hunting Music Videos: “ […]
[…] to Katie Fehrenbacher on Om Malik’s new supersite for linking me to this. Filed under: blogging, Vlogging, Video, YouTube, DivX@ 6:19 pm # […]
[…] Why Steve Jobs should buy YouTube: “ […]
[…] DivX launches its own YouTube, Stage6 – GigaOM blogs DivX, the video company well known for its coding and compression technology, quietly launched a YouTube-style online video sharing community, Stage6, a few weeks ago. […]
[…] GigaOM No Comments so far Leave a comment RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI Leave a comment Line and paragraph breaks automatic, e-mail address never displayed, HTMLallowed: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong> […]
[…] Reading between the lines, our good friend Dan Farber says that this is Google Office version 1.0, and the search engine giant will add Writely and SpreadSheets to the package and poke Microsoft in the eye. Kent Newsome offers a strong counterpoint. Our readers in response to a previous post are involved in a hot, intelligent, educations and a rather enjoyable debate. […]
[…] Friend and colleague Andy Abramson put an interesting post up yesterday that’s had me thinking a bit. What struck me as perhaps most telling is the title Andy chose. Requiem For The Future of VoIP Om has pointed to an Aswath post regarding the winding down of the AOL Total Talk service. […]
[…] People are tough to please, and they’re not shy about announcing what they like and don’t like. For example, check out the backlash in the comments section over at GigaOM regarding some of the changes at Facebook. […]
[…] Link: Is this an iPod Shuffle or an IP-PBX? […]
[…] Is Savvis CDN Business For Sale?: “ […]
[…] Naturally, any product that captures your clickstream is going to be called “creepy” by a few people. My impression from using the tool is that Me.dium has done an excellent job of thinking about these issues and adding simple to use privacy controls. […]
[…] As Kate Fehrenbacher of GigaOm points out, several companies have raised new rounds recently. So from Sept-Oct, I reckon mobile startups mustve raised at least $250mm. Quick recap on some major ones: […]
[…] GigOm reports that Cisco is buying the key engineering staff and entire intellectual property of Procket Networks in a cash deal worth $89 million. Cisco recently unveiled its own $500,000 core terabit router, the Huge Fucking Router (HFR). LightReading speculates it may be worth $89 million to Cisco simply to take out a potential competitor. The initial version of Cisco’s Carrier Routing System-1 (CRS-1) lacks several key features such as full support for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) and multiprotocol label switching (MPLS). University of Oregon has deployed the PRO/8000 series from Procket Networks as a border router between the University of Oregon campus network and the Oregon Internet Exchange (Oregon-IX); the Oregon Gigapop (Internet 2 Connectivity Provider to Abilene); the Network for Education and Research in Oregon (NERO), for higher education and K-12 schools; and state offices in Oregon. The University of Oregon s deployment includes Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), Multicast Border Gateway Protocol (MBGP), Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP), Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM) and access control lists in an architecture supporting unicast and multicast, peering with multiple service providers. […]
[…] TalkPlus, VoIP 2.0 Startup raises $5.5 million: “What we do love about the service – ability to add a second phone number to your mobile phone. A few European carriers tried to do that with dual SIMs, but to have a work and personal number on the same handset – that alone is a reason to check out TalkPlus.” […]
[…] Who Wants to Be a Virtual World Millionaire?: “ […]
[…] Social Media is not Mass Media: “ […]
[…] 3 X-Series Got it Right, Sort Of: “ […]
[…] Early signs of a mobile chip consolidation: “ […]
[…] Fiber … now faster and cheaper: “ […]
[…] More Money for Mobile Linux: “ […]
[…] Katie finds enough evidence to suspect Google is investing in Chinese P2P company Xunlei. Om highlights the remarkable paydays top tech shareholders had in November. We know Bill Gates is beyond rich, but man! He sold $581 million worth of shares in a single month. Jackson ponders “a generation that takes their browsing home with them and are accustomed to always-on connectivity, instant access to content and mobile social networking.” He notes, “Getting them to sit quietly in cubicles may prove difficult.” […]
[…] Chambers: Video is the ‘killer app’: “ […]
[…] More Spectrum for Sale in UK: “ […]
[…] Venice Project Letting in Beta Testers: “ […]
[…] 2007, big year for US broadband?: “ […]
[…] In India, WiMAX Takes Wings: “ […]
[…] Verizon Revs Up Rev A-Ready Card: “ […]
[…] Google Phone & Some Circumstantial Evidence?: “ […]
[…] Big Fiber Is Back: “ […]
[…] WiMAX and the vanishing scale: “ […]
[…] Return of the Tech IPO: “ […]
[…] Ericsson buys Redback, Good Move?: “ […]
[…] It seems that everyone is so excited over the possibility of a browser within the Nintendo Wii and PS3. Om Malik recently made a solid post about what he refers to as the ‘SofaNet,’ or console internet revolution. Consoles with internet browsers do excite me, I’ll admit it. I would love to leverage users from PS3’s or Wii’s onto our eSports or News sites, and I’m sure that a few individual users will eventually try to browse our sites via Opera on Wii. […]
[…] iPhone is Real…Macworld Keynote Live: ” […]
[…] For Ma Bell, Nowhere to Hide from the Internet: ” […]
[…] Forget Neutrality — Keep Packets Private 15Jan07 Forget Neutrality — Keep Packets Private: ” […]
[…] Telcos Target Google in ‘Neutrality’ Fight 20Jan07 Telcos Target Google in ‘Neutrality’ Fight: ” […]
[…] Making Money in the Mashup Economy: “ […]
[…] MuniFi’s Weakest Link is Public Us — (Via GigaOM.) […]
[…] Since it is hard to tell how many paying customers they have, it is tough to say how much exactly is the company taking in every month. The company recently changed its strategy and started offering ad-supported free calling in Europe. The move is controversial, and has been the cause of much debate. […]
[…] Telcos Target Google in ‘Neutrality’ Fight (GigaOm) I’m slowly catching up on all my blog reading. This GigaOm post has a lot of good discussion, and links, on the latest in Net Neutrality. For those who don’t already know, “It’s about cash … Google has it and the others don’t”. — Iain Telcos Target Google in ‘Neutrality’ Fight: ” […]
[…] GigaOm wrote, " In the fourth quarter ending December 31,2006, Sprint Nextel lost post-paid 306,000 subscribers, the only metric that counts amongst the Wall Street types. The stock fell about 10% and the company is cutting 5000 jobs. […]
[…] GigaOM » Meraki Cooks Up Wireless Mesh Router – […]
[…] Commodity Computing, Still the King — I say “No Kidding :-( “ I tend to enjoy Allan Leinwand’s (bio below) posts in GigaOm. His latest post, Commodity Computing, Still the King, is on a topic that drives the “Chip Head” in me bananas. It’s so evil The fact that he is applying this trend to higher-end networking gear is yet another milestone/data-point indicating how powerful/pervasive “standard” x86 CPU’s have become. […]
[…] There’s also been a lot of companies releasing mobile video content recently. Some are for carrier video services like Verizon Wireless’ announcements with IGN, ESPN Mobile, and Justin Timberlake TV. Startups are creating mobile video content too, and MyWaves launched a mobile video show called Skee.TV this week. […]
[…] There’s also been a lot of companies releasing mobile video content recently. Some are for carrier video services like Verizon Wireless’ announcements with IGN8, ESPN Mobile, and Justin Timberlake TV9. Startups are creating mobile video content too, and MyWaves launched a mobile video show called Skee.TV this week10. […]
[…] There’s also been a lot of companies releasing mobile video content recently. Some are for carrier video services like Verizon Wireless’ announcements with IGN8, ESPN Mobile, and Justin Timberlake TV9. Startups are creating mobile video content too, and MyWaves launched a mobile video show called Skee.TV this week10. […]
[...] find it a bit ironic that the kids/tweens ‘virtual gold rush’ positioning in the press has dominated, when their site eligibility [...]
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