A Little VoiceXML Courtesy of Twilio
I haven’t really considered VoiceXML in a good long time. I remember the early excitement (pre- dot com bust) when a few start-up companies were …
Year: 2010
Review: Zemanta, Blogging Assistant
Zemanta calls itself a blogging assistant and promises to make the web writing process fun. I have to confess that the Zemanta marketing copy was …
New Category
With NYC just a NJ Transit ride away (in fact, I can see the tip of the Manhattan skyline from my backyard), it makes sense …
It consolidates 40 customized packet-processor cores (900 MHz to 1.2 GHz) into a single piece of silicon. This massive amount of parallel processing reduces any …
Cisco’s News: Carriers Will Be Changed Forever
Startling statement: Cisco is in the business of selling routers. So it’s not surprising that its announcement today, which was billed as news that will …
The Twitterization of Google
About two weeks ago I became one of the small group of users who are currently trialing the new Google look. I was vaguely aware of a shift in the left margin, which I decided at first was a glitch in my browser. Then my search results jumped to life when I came across a box of automatically scrolling tweets.
Deep thought: will timeliness trump PageRank-ness?
New for 2010: Cursor Keys
Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore described the new Windows Phone 7 Series interface for smartphones as “typographically intense.” With its noticeable lack of graphics, the WP7S has …
As of July 2009, you only need 150 origin ASNs to generate 50% of all Internet traffic. It’s a very dramatic shift.
Internet Traffic Shifts to the Edge (and CDNs)
John Markoff’s NY Times article on Monday is a good starting point to understanding the dramatic changes in Web traffic patterns in the last two …
In those countries, when a regulator says to do something, what happens is that within a very reasonable, short timeframe, those things are done. What …
Blair Levin on The Spectrum Crunch, and UNE
The FCC’s Blair Levin helped to coordinate the National Broadband Plan, which will be presented to Congress on March 17. Ars Technica’s Matthew Lasar did …
Graph of the Day
Dan Savage plots the relationship between Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Loudness of Cell Phone Conversations in his Savage Chickens cartoon.
Social Networks Go to War
The New America Foundation brought together military officers, academics, and journalists to discuss the role of social networks in analyzing terror cells. Fortunately, the video …
We have extraordinary capacity in the US to build the best computers, best chips, best applications and services in the world, but we are at …
Where's the Mobile Bandwidth to Come From?
….for all the new iPads, and other iGadgets. In his speech at the New America Foundation outlining the FCC’s National Broadband Plan, Chairman Genachowski said …
The Diagram that Explains Why the Tipping Point is Wrong
To review, the theory behind viral marketing is that influencers infect their neighbors with an idea, preferably related to purchasing something. These neighbors then spread …
It's Really a Documentary
I know this YouTube has been around for awhile, but I think it’s worth taking another look at. After having sat on both sides of …
…searches performed by a selected service can be limited to a specific category in the information provider’s directory (e.g., Google) of information content.
Xerox Sues Google Over Search Algorithm
I’m having a little trouble processing that headline too. But Bloomberg reported that Xerox has filed suit against Google for using its search inventions without …