MiddleMan 1.5
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MiddleMan 1.9.1
MiddleMan 1.9.1
11/11/2003 03:26 AMA filtering HTTP/HTTPS proxy server.
MiddleMan 2.0
MiddleMan 2.0
02/19/2004 08:00 AMA filtering HTTP/HTTPS proxy server.
If A Middleman Does The Deal, Maybe We
Can Pretend It's Not Porn
If A Middleman Does The Deal, Maybe We
Can Pretend It's Not Porn
04/08/2005 12:13 PMThe mobile phone operators of the world have this big
love-hate
affair with mobile porn. They seem absolutely convinced that
mobile porn will be the killer app for mobile data. When challenged
on this, they point to the VCR and the internet, and how porn drove
both of those forward, as if it were some law that porn always leads
the way. At the same time, however, they're all a little squeamish
about being seen as being involved in porn. This wouldn't be such a
big problem if the operators weren't
also so tied to their
"walled garden" ways where all mobile content has to go through the
operators' approval process. It leads to quite a dilemma for the
providers, including such bizarre plans as a
filtering
plan that didn't work, followed by a
content
rating system that won't work and (my personal favorite) a plan to
force users to specifically come in to stores and
ask to be
approved to see porn (AKA "the porn license"). The latest plans
to both embrace and distance themselves from porn seems just as
bizarre. Basically, the plan is to
use a
middleman to negotiate both sides of the deal on the assumption
that if the carriers don't actually
meet with the pornographers
in person, then everything will be okay and no one will have done
anything wrong. Somehow that seems unlikely to work all that well.
In the meantime, some people are finally starting to question whether
or not
the interest
in mobile porn is real. While the stories about VCRs and the
internet make sense because they make it easier to view porn -- it's
not clear what sort of advantage viewing porn on a tiny screen really
provides. If you really can't do without a photo of a naked person
(even one that's half an inch tall) until you can get to the privacy
of your own home, you might have other issues to deal with.
A Palm-Size Bridge Eliminates the
Computer as Middleman
A Palm-Size Bridge Eliminates the
Computer as Middleman
05/19/2004 11:45 PMDigital cameras, MP3 players and tiny U.S.B. flash-memory drives have
made it easier to transport pictures, music and data. But they have
limited capacities, forcing users to transfer their files to a
computer to make room for more snapshots or a different album.
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