Comcast Still Thinking Big

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Time Warner, Comcast Get Adelphia,
Comcast Celebrates By Turning Off DNS

Time Warner, Comcast Get Adelphia,
Comcast Celebrates By Turning Off DNS 04/08/2005 12:13 PM
It looks like Adelphia cable broadband customers who are about to get shifted over to Comcast have plenty of outages to look forward to. The same evening that it's announced that Time Warner and Comcast will jointly devour what's left of Adelphia for about $18 billion, Comcast had major DNS issues leaving many of their users offline. Of course, in explaining the widespread outage, Comcast is using their favorite phrase: "scheduled maintenance." That's the same thing they told me when Comcast turned off my service nearly every weekday last October. I would call every morning and be told that it was "scheduled maintenance." However, when I asked what the schedule was and if I'd have service the next day, I was told they had no idea. Apparently, it doesn't become scheduled until it actually cut you off.

Comcast Outages Prevent Comcast From
Commenting On Comcast Outages

Comcast Outages Prevent Comcast From
Commenting On Comcast Outages 04/14/2005 01:21 PM
Last week, we noted that Comcast was having widespread outage problems, which they chalk ed up to "scheduled maintenance", even though no one was actually informed of said schedule ahead of time. It turns out that schedule is pretty crowded, because all week long, there have been continued reports of recurring outages all across the Comcast network. Comcast, of course, continues to be pretty much silent on the issue, leaving its increasingly fed up call center staff to deal with incredibly angry customers who feel they're getting no information at all. How hard is it to admit that they screwed up and they're working on fixing the problem? Instead of chalking it up to bogus scheduled maintenance or pretending there's nothing wrong, admit what the problem is and give people real updates. People would still be unhappy, but at least they'd feel like the company wasn't ignoring them. Of course, maybe they can't do that because Comcast staffers don't have any internet access either...

What are they thinking?

What are they thinking? 03/06/2004 02:04 AM

What was Sun thinking?

What was Sun thinking? 06/05/2005 11:35 PM
ZDNet Jun 3 2005 5:21PM GMT

Thinking of You

Thinking of You 09/11/2004 02:39 PM
Dear New York, I'm sorry I oouldn't be there today. I feel guilty that I couldn't be present to observe....

What was he thinking?

What was he thinking? 04/29/2004 07:45 AM
"The Bastard on the Couch: 27 Men Try Really Hard to Explain Their Feelings About Love, Loss, Fatherhood, and Freedom" tries to answer the eternal question. A conversation with the collection's editor, Daniel Jones.

Thinking Outside the Cup

Thinking Outside the Cup 07/05/2004 06:22 AM

Just What Were They Thinking?

Just What Were They Thinking? 08/13/2004 12:30 PM

The Register: S EC to examine Playboy for boobs. The boobs in question are Google Inc. founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who have punctuated the company's mandatory pre-IPO period with an extensive interview with the monthly. The interview itself was conducted on 22 April, at the end of a Spring publicity campaign. Google filed its initial public offering a week later.

Thinking outside the TV box
(USATODAY.com)

Thinking outside the TV box
(USATODAY.com) 06/22/2004 06:12 AM
USATODAY.com - With TiVo's fast-forward, viewers' shrinking attention spans and new media choices, the 30-second TV ad has more rivals for consumers' attention. That is pushing marketers' thinking increasingly outside the TV box for ways to make the costly but still dominant commercial work harder.

Thinking small

Thinking small 04/13/2005 04:35 AM
We spend a fair amount of our time talking with access equipment vendors about their newest product lines and how they market them to the carriers. So we hear a lot about these vendors’ strategies and messaging – for better and for worse.

Thinking About A Google IPO

Thinking About A Google IPO 04/13/2004 01:51 AM
James Cramer has written up a great column summarizing many of the points (much more concisely) that I've been trying to make to people who ask me about the potential of a Google IPO. The company is (despite it's incredibly secretive nature) clearly doing quite well and is probably a worthwhile investment - if and only if you can get it at the initial offering price - which is unlikely to happen. As Cramer points out, the demand for Google stock is much larger than any other IPO. Everyone seems to want in on this deal, partly due to the Google phenomenon, and partly due to the lack of big time IPOs in years. This explains how people who should know better were conned into buying non-existent shares in the company. It also sets up the perfect environment for flippers. The big time institutional investors are going to get first crack at the shares (at the price the bankers set the IPO at), and will quickly try to flip the stock on the open market, where people who don't know any better will snap up the shares at two, three or even more times its initial public offering price. What Cramer leaves out, of course, is that plenty of people who simply don't understand investing will think it's a good thing that the stock jumps up so much on its first day of trading when all it really means is that (a) the company left money on the table and (b) there are a lot of silly investors out there who don't understand how to value a stock.

Thinking outside the computer box

Thinking outside the computer box 01/22/2004 02:12 AM
The Scotsman Jan 22 2004 5:34AM GMT

Thinking With Type

Thinking With Type 02/01/2005 09:10 PM
Thinking it with Type

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Mac mini thinking big

Mac mini thinking big 04/06/2005 11:49 AM
CNN Money Apr 6 2005 3:48PM GMT

Old wireless thinking

Old wireless thinking 02/19/2004 10:00 AM
This Washington Post story about new wireless services is a great example of old telecom thinking.  Everything depends on the carriers, and when they upgrade their networks.  WiFi hotspots and other forms of unlicensed connectivity remove that bottleneck -- along with the additional charges the carriers want to load on for the whizbang new services.  That's why incorporating WiFi (and ultimately software radios) into mobile handsets is such a significant development.

Beyond Fossilized Thinking

Beyond Fossilized Thinking 02/15/2004 05:50 AM
Los Angeles Times Feb 15 2004 9:39AM GMT

Thinking of the turtles

Thinking of the turtles 01/25/2004 04:12 PM

It's continuing to be bitterly cold here in NYC (8° F this morning with -6° F windchill) and so my thoughts have turned to tropical climates and other seasons. And I started thinking about my trip to Hawaii in 2000 and when we went snokeling and swam with turtles. So I poked around and found my two favorite pictures from that experience, both taken by Jason. Here's me swimming behind the turtle, going too deep and here's another of me and a turtle closer to the surface. [sigh] Hawaii sure was swell and those turtles sure were cute.

Thinking inside the box

Thinking inside the box 03/28/2005 07:50 AM
To compete better, software start-ups package their products as specialized software-hardware appliances.

Quantitative thinking

Quantitative thinking 02/18/2004 12:13 PM
There are interesting facts and ideas at this intro to Alfred Crosby's The Measure of Reality. For example, did you know:Because Europe did not straddle the equator, and because old traditions dictated twelve hours for each day and each night, Europeans developed a system of unequal "accordion-pleated hours that puffed up and deflated" so as to ensure a dozen hours for each daytime and each nighttime, winter and summer....

Thinking Beyond Borders

Thinking Beyond Borders 06/15/2004 02:52 PM
Source: iMedia Connection - Understanding user behavior is just the beginning for search marketers who want to go global....

20 Years Of Thinking Out Of The Box

20 Years Of Thinking Out Of The Box 01/17/2004 10:39 PM
To CEO Steve Jobs, Apple is an art form -- that's why its products are always head-turners. By Eugene Wee (Straits Times via MyAppleMenu)

What is she thinking about during sex?
(Reuters)

What is she thinking about during sex?
(Reuters) 05/21/2004 08:37 AM
Reuters - Women watching erotic films are stimulated in a part of the brain associated with planning and emotion, research from scientists in Germany say.

Thinking Urbanly

Thinking Urbanly 04/14/2005 03:50 PM
This year's Shaugnessy Cohen Prize goes to Ja ne Jacobs, a social critic and commenter on urban planning. She's probably best known for her book, Systems of Survival. [previously here]

Thinking local

Thinking local 08/15/2004 09:21 PM

I'm sitting here in Gramd Haven, MI - thinking abotu how cyberspace needs ot hit meatspace. MeetUp does it well and so does Dodgeball, but when I hear about new services like StepUp.com - I get real excited.

The UPS store is across the street - and I stopped by and asked them about AuctionDrop.com. They hadn't heard of it - yet. But they liked the idea.

As John Battelle says:

I thought it'd be really cool if we started a website where local merchants could list their wares, so folks could check to see if a local business had what they were looking for before going down to the store. We decided against the business, but I've remained fascinated by this concept. It just seems to make sense, that at some point you will be able to check into the inventory of your local stores to see if what you want is there, and even reserve it or have it delivered to you.

John's talking about a real-world solution who's day has come.....

But I gotta wonder if subjects like this will get discussed at the upcoming Web 2.0 conference. Judging by the list of speakers - I doubt it. It's just more of the same - sort of like the BlogOn conference.

It was ludicrous - Yahoo, AOL and CNet telling us about teh future. Give me a break!

Sure - Cory will get up and holler aboput [insert complaint du jour] and Danger Mouse will hopefully keep it real - but I just gotta wonder what John Doerr has to say - for the upteenth time. Or Mary Meeker. Sounds exicting.

Anyway I'm sure the folks putting on Web 2.0 have the best intentions, and they certainly got the buzzword du jour - by the horns.

But without cutting edge entrepreneurs taking risks, what's the point? And I don't mean T'rati, 6A or Craigslist. They've had their day in the sun.

How 'bout a panel with developers who are broke, have kickass services and products and need funding? What a concept.

But anyway - back to local services. The FEDEX and UPS stores solved integration and aggregation issues for humans - for packaging and shipping. The merger with Kinkos was brilliant for FEDEX. Kinkos has been solving the copying/printing activity for humans for years.

Software needs to solve real world problems and wrap it into 'activity based' solutions. By combining eVite functionality, with WinAmp, Guestbook and Blogging features - coolio integrated parties could be born - spontaneously. Sounds like a meatpsace solutionf or Dodgeball.

:-)

Thinking Should Become Before
Communication

Thinking Should Become Before
Communication 12/09/2002 05:10 AM

SOA Demands New Way of Thinking

SOA Demands New Way of Thinking 04/18/2005 11:23 AM
Companies must do more than wire Web services together to avoid dead ends.

Wishful thinking

Wishful thinking 07/02/2004 01:05 PM
“Worms and viruses are everywhere, but hardly a one for Linux. Only a handful of Linux malware has ever been released in the wild. While the Lion (2001), Ramen (2001) and Slapper (2002) worms and the Bliss virus (1997) presented problems for Linux users, they weren’t nearly as crippling as the worst Windows malware. So, should Linux users brush off concerns about malware plagues? Short answer: No.”

Re-thinking that stance

Re-thinking that stance 09/17/2004 12:31 AM
Usatoday.com - Thu Sep 16, 08:06 pm GMT

What are these guys thinking?

What are these guys thinking? 07/26/2004 12:37 PM
Sure, you're upset that (Novell/Microsoft/whoever) has cut off official support for the old system you use. Yes, it might be tough to go to NetWare 6 or Windows Server 2003 - but Solaris? AppleServer? How dumb do the marketeers think we are?

Adventures in Thinking

Adventures in Thinking 12/19/2004 03:41 PM
Two new articles on big thinkers have turned up. First is an Investor's Business Daily article on Alan Turing's life and imagination. It covers some of the historical aspects of his life as well as touching on cryptography, artificial intelligence, robotics, and brain-mind metaphysics. The summary of Turing's life also conveniently leaves out the more controversial bits and the cause of his death. For a more complete look at Turing's life, see the Wikipedia article. A more recent thinker on similar problems, Ray Kurzweil, is intereviewed by DevSource. Kruzweil discusses reverse-engineering the brain, embedded intelligence, and even has a comment or two about synthesizers.

Linear Thinking

Linear Thinking 12/24/2004 12:26 PM
Lessons from the Rockettes.

CamWorld: Thinking Outside the Box

CamWorld: Thinking Outside the Box 08/30/2004 03:26 PM
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what the Hell he was thinking

what the Hell he was thinking 07/21/2004 09:42 AM
Sandy Berger .. Dan Drezner

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Thinking About It Twice, This *Is*
Alright

Thinking About It Twice, This *Is*
Alright 06/17/2004 08:14 AM
Music That Paints a Picture
Whether you're a fan of Biggie or Dylan, this Flash project has you covered.

Thinking Smaller

Thinking Smaller 11/13/2003 05:21 AM
Prompted by yet another round of miniaturization, computer makers finally seem willing to rethink what PCs can look like. The result could be a revolution not just in style but in convenience. By John Morgan (Hartford Courant via MyAppleMenu)

Thinking young

Thinking young 06/14/2004 06:15 PM
USA Today Jun 14 2004 9:55PM GMT

Ears Burning Thinking of You

Ears Burning Thinking of You 07/20/2004 02:51 AM
Midshipman fish females tune their hearing during breeding season to detect the mating calls of males.

Retro thinking will save the net

Retro thinking will save the net 09/09/2004 02:59 PM
IDF Fall '04 Vint Cerf reminisces

Thought for the day:Joined-up thinking

Thought for the day:Joined-up thinking 08/06/2004 04:29 AM
Computer Weekly Aug 6 2004 8:07AM GMT
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