Monthly Archives: March 31, 2010

Decoding the FCC (with Help from CrowdFlower)

Until recently, when confronted with a very limited budget for a critical task that had to be completed yesterday, you had few options. You could face mutiny by squeezing more person-hours from your staff or else turn to budget-busting temp agencies. … Continue reading

Ubiquitous high-speed mobile connectivity is spawning new industries and allowing existing industries to become more productive. These services and others yet to be developed will enable entrepreneurs, consumers, non-profit organizations, and government to interact and build better businesses and stronger … Continue reading

A Little More Fun With Twilio

I’m been trying to keep up with multiple stories (Sprint-Clearwire “4G”,  Harbinger Capital’s nationwide LTE network , iPad) while running around tending other assignments.  No, I don’t have much of a smartphone,  more of a Bronze-age artifact that came with … Continue reading

We’re going to roll out something that we think is appropriate not just for Twitter users but also for the ecosystem. When we develop this monetization platform , it’s not going  to just be for us, it will actually extend … Continue reading

Sprint 4G is Spelled W I M A X

Image from Gizmodo I am very  excited about the new Sprint 4G phone revealed at CTIA 2010: a mashup of Android OS-CDMA-WiFi-WiMAX and encased in an HTC Evo package (see  more sexy pictures here). It should be available this summer. … Continue reading

Tipping the Giant

I spent part of a long rainy afternoon two weekends ago slaying a Giant with a small pebble. No, it wasn’t a new video game. The Giant is the large connected component that can crop up in random graphs. Random … Continue reading

UTOPIA is a good candidate to partner with Google in the new project and to bring the experiment to well-prepped ground. UTOPIA has successfully pursued models of deployment and found a sustainable and reliable model.

The Road to UTOPIA

In the National Broadband Plan, there is hardly any mention of a wholesale or “unbundled” model of fiber-to-the-home. That’s unfortunate. There are many examples of successful deployments of fiber in which the physical part is built by the public sector … Continue reading

Is CrowdFlower the Future of Work?

About two years ago while researching a blog post on crowdsourcing, I discovered Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service. As a  crowdsourced labor solution, the Turk completely turns around the relationship between computers and people.  Instead of asking silicon to perform complex … Continue reading

Freescale's $200 Tablet Supports Multiple OSes

At the Consumer Electronics Show in January, Freescale was showing off what its chips can do. Freescale’s 7″ tablet reference architecture was meant to inspire manufacturers. And to my eyes, I think they’ll generate lots of interest. Since CES, they’ve … Continue reading

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