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Home wireless connections bring risks
Home wireless connections bring risks
09/13/2004 08:50 AMWi-Fi gear makers make home connections
Wi-Fi gear makers make home connections
01/10/2004 04:29 PMNew products that will allow home stereos and DVD players to connect
to and playback digital media stored on other devices connected to
wireless networks.
Comcast Offers Home Network
Installation, Equipment Rental
Comcast Offers Home Network
Installation, Equipment Rental
05/05/2004 03:44 PMComcast will install Wi-Fi gear, configure a router, and rent it to
their customers with new program: Comcast Home Networking includes the
delivery and installation of Wi-Fi networking for a setup fee and $5
per month (covering the router and one PC Card). Setup costs $200 for
two computers up to $300 for five computers, the maximum covered by
this deal. A current discount program chops $100 off that price until
June 1. The terms and pricing don't explain the rental fee for the
second through fifth computers' hardware, referring to a "rate card"
that isn't on the Web site. The installation includes configuring and
setting a WEP encryption key for the network, a task which with
certain equipment can cause grown men and women to weep. There's
definitely a place for a service in which the equipment is covered
against defects. The site for the program doesn't note this, but
Comcast's overarching subscriber terms says, During the term of this
Agreement, Comcast will repair and maintain all Comcast Equipment and
you agree that the Comcast Equipment will not be serviced by anyone
other than Comcast employees or agents. Part of the press release
noted that this package, offered as $52.95 per month excluding the
rental fees and install fees, has up to 4 Mbps download speeds and 384
Kbps upload speeds. The basic package is $42.95 per month for 3 Mbps
down and 256Kbps up. These prices require a Comcast cable
subscription; it's $10 extra per month without such a subscription.
(Macintosh users need not apply.) Qwest DSL's comparable service is
$39.99/month for 1.5 Mbps down, 896 Kbps up (with Qwest phone
service). Qwest also offers a wireless option with less support and no
installation but without the rental cost: you just buy an Actiontec
device with 802.11g and DSL modem support built in....
Om Malik on Broadband: Can Comcast snoop
into you home networks using LinkSys
gateway?
Om Malik on Broadband: Can Comcast snoop
into you home networks using LinkSys
gateway?
05/08/2004 03:46 AMOm Malik on Broadband: Can Comcast snoop into you home networks using
LinkSys gateway? .. backdoored corn-holed their subscribers’
802.11g/Modems
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a distributed computing program runnable
on home computers with internet
connections for screening drug compounds
against HIV viral proteins to discover
possible HIV treatments
a distributed computing program runnable
on home computers with internet
connections for screening drug compounds
against HIV viral proteins to discover
possible HIV treatments
12/02/2003 06:30 AMFight AIDS @home
fightaidsathome.scripps.edu
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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 PMIt 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 PMLast 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...
Pitching Universities
Pitching Universities
12/04/2002 09:25 PMGoogle's got a new page up, pitching a job at Google to university
students. As they point out, the goal of the Google lifestyle was to
make it like grad school. (Thanks, Henk!)...
Pitching their parts
Pitching their parts
06/04/2004 07:26 AMSan Jose Mercury News Jun 4 2004 12:10PM GMT
Pitching keywords against trademarks
Pitching keywords against trademarks
05/04/2004 01:38 PMnewmediazero May 4 2004 5:01PM GMT
Mets Tee Off Again on the Yankees'
Pitching
Mets Tee Off Again on the Yankees'
Pitching
07/03/2004 07:56 PMThe Mets' win was the second game in a row in which a Yankees starter
gave up a season high in runs.
The Ultimate Pitching Machine
The Ultimate Pitching Machine
06/03/2004 05:23 AMHardware and hard science are turning big-league ballplayers into
precision-guided flamethrowers. Batter up! By Tom McNichol from Wired
magazine.
Mets Trade for Pitching Help
Mets Trade for Pitching Help
07/30/2004 08:44 PMThe Mets acquired right-handed pitchers Kris Benson from the
Pittsburgh Pirates and Victor Zambrano from the Tampa Bay Devil Rays
on Friday.
Time For VCs To Start Pitching Startups?
Time For VCs To Start Pitching Startups?
03/25/2005 07:27 PMBack during the boom years, newly minted MBAs seemed to believe that
the only way to start a company was to take their cocktail napkin
scribble to a VC and get startup cash. The VCs didn't mind getting in
early. They claimed their connections and know-how were necessary, but
a bit of
ancedotal evidence and
some
research suggests entrepreneurs are realizing that's not the way
it needs to be done. In all honesty, it's always been the case that
most startups are not right for venture capital -- but even
those who will need it eventually can do quite well for themselves by
bootstrapping. The recent sales of
Topix<
/a> and Blogl
ines are two cases in Silicon Valley where seasoned founders (who
know both the upsides and downsides to VC funding) bootstrapped
companies, passed on the VC money and sold their companies instead.
The deals appear to give the start-ups access to capital to grow their
businesses, some upfront payout for their hard work and continued
control over the business. Going the acquisition route as opposed to
taking funding and shooting for an IPO may have limited the upside of
the founders, but the entrepreneurs are still making out well. VCs may
discover that they need to rethink the "value proposition" they offer
to a new generation of hot startups that seem more skeptical of the
typical VC route.
Lowe, Heilman Highlight Night of
Pitching (AP)
Lowe, Heilman Highlight Night of
Pitching (AP)
04/16/2005 02:43 AMAP - Aaron Heilman stunned almost everybody at Shea Stadium, and Derek
Lowe dominated San Diego.
NAA Connections Day Three
NAA Connections Day Three
01/22/2004 03:13 AMThe last day of Connections was really just more of the stuff
you've read in my past two accounts of my experiences at the
conference.
I attended fewer sessions on Day Three than I did during the other
two days, I think mainly because I realized (or percieved) that I
wasn't really getting anything out of the sessions. The two sessions
I did attend on day three really were worth attending though. I
attended the Buzz Sessions meetings and a one entitled Registration
Revisited. I also spent time meeting with vendors, other online
newspaper people from similar markets and clients. This third day was
much more enjoyable and productive than the first two...
Buzz
Sessions: The Buzz Sessions were five small group discussions with
topics like Print to Web (taking newspaper display ads and putting
them online), Creating spanish-language websites, Essential website
redesign, Multimedia (and how to use it), and one other topic (that I
can't remember). I sat in on two of the five little groups: Print to
Web and Multimedia. Both were great little discussions. The overall
thing I take away from the meeting was that newspapers are really
trying to figure out how to use the distribution channel that the
internet is as a way to really transform themselves from just 'printed
newspaper companies' into 'content and delivery' companies. Every size
and every shape of newspaper was represented in these buzz sessions
and a lot of great sharing took place. On the topic of Multimedia,
there are some really cool things going on out there, if you take
notice... For example, when SignOnSanDiego.com was putting pictures
and movies of the wild-fires that afflicted Southern California this
summer... did you know that they found cell-phone camera phones the
easiest and most manageable technology solution for getting that
content back to the newsroom for production and posting online? Not
some $20,000 or $100,000 video set-up. A bunch of stupid $200
cell-phones with cameras built into them and an army of folks to go
take pictures. That ingenuity and creativity in this space really
amazes me sometimes... cell-phone camera based movies... such a simple
solution for web-ready video...
Registra
tion Revisited: Wow! Great presentation and by far the most
attended and interesting discussion throughout all of Connections. We
heard from Belo Interactive, Tribune Interactive and the Arizona
Republic's online folks... Belo and Tribune are truly leaders in the
online registration field. AZCentral just launched 'lite
registration' last September. Belo and TI have been at it for 4 and 3
years respectively. Belo and TI are just now starting to be able to
monetize their registration data effectively for advertisers (and are
starting to try and figure out how to use their registration to serve
their users/online readers). AZCentral is also just starting to sell
advertising based on their registration data. The overall feeling I
get coming out of the session was that registration is coming to a
newspaper site near you soon. If you're local news site doesn't
require registration today, trust me when I say that they're thinking
very hard about doing it. Very hard... all of them. And when
newspapers do it, I can tell you that TV, radio, and almost all other
news-content websites will start following. The leaders are doing it.
Their readers aren't complaining at all (100 complaints in 1.6
Million registrations in Arizona isn't complaining). It's coming
folks. And I dare say paid premium content online is coming next...
It's already here in some local news markets.
I didn't attend the presentation on The Transformation of
Advertising, though I wanted to. I heard that it was all about how TV
is going to change... the person that told me that also said that 99%
of the presentation had very little to do with that newspaper
companies can do to affect TV advertisers... I guess I'm glad I didn't
go to that one...
I met a lot of great people at Connections, but overall I'm coming
away slightly disappointed. My company spent a lot of money to send
me out to this conference. I invested a lot of time that could have
been spent in front of clients. I expected to really get to learn a
lot at this conference, but, in the words of a peer "everything we
talked about was 'old-hat'". I sat next to the marketing director of
a small paper in Arkansas on the way home, and she was very
disappointed too. In her words the conference was "more form that
substance".
Will I go to next year's
Connections? Yes, most likely, but only because it's in Dallas,
and I can turn it into a week-long trip to visit clients, not because
I think I'll get anything out of the conference. Can I do something
to make the conference better for all attending by joining the
planning committees? Sure, I think I could, but do I want to? Don't
know the answer to that.
NAA Connections Day Two
NAA Connections Day Two
01/22/2004 03:15 AMHmmm... I have mixed feelings about the second day of the NAA
Connections meetings... Where should I start?
I guess I'll start with the fact that the official NAA blog hasn't
been updated to actually reflect anything happening at the conference
on Monday. It jumped from Sunday to an advertisement for the Tuesday
session. There are any number of reasons for this, but I think a big
reason for this is that the whole "we'll blog the conference" was a
good idea, but isn't really something traditional newspaper people
understand, so they haven't committed to it. For example, they asked
people to participate on the blog, but didn't actually tell anyone the
URL or tell them how to add an entry... just a thought. The blog was
most likely an addition thrown into the mix at the last minute without
any real understanding of how to use it.
Anyways, I attended a few sessions today:
• Fighting
for Recruitment Revenue - This was an hour or so presentation by
Mark Mehler and Gerry Crispin, the guys behind CareerXRoads. Great presentation.
Probably the most well presented stuff all day. Gerry and Mark
presented the results of their latest study on Hiring Practices (which
is supposed to be online here, but
isn't according to Safari... actually, it looks like that's a redirect
to a download of a Word Doc) [Press Release]
and interjected their thoughts and answered questions from the
audience throughout. Great overview of what Gerry and Mark see as
'leading indicators' in the hiring space, and some great actionable
information for the recruitment space.
• Future Focus: Trends that Will Shape Online Real
Estate Revenue (not online anywhere that I can find) - Very
good panel. Very good.
Panelists were: Bob Birkentall, Tribune Co. Real Estate Strategy
Manager, Robert Kempf, Cape Cod Times Internet Business Development
Manager, and Dave Coglizer, eBay. The Moderator was Tony Lee, Editor
in Chief and General Manager, The Wall Street Journal Online
Network.
The panel presented the 10 trends they see shaping the future of
the real estate market. They were:
Trend 1: Home Sellers Take Control - Every aspect of sales
will be measured and sales channels that don't produce sales will get
eliminated from the marketing and advertising budgets of home sellers.
If an advertising channel's results aren't tracked and reported, it
doesn't exist.
Trend 2: Expect Significant Growth in New Property Types -
Disappearing boundaries will boost demand for vacation homes,
recreation land, time-shares and low-management commercial properties.
Ebay is already playing
in this field.
Trend 3: Online Brokers will Boost Competition, Cut
Commissions, and Weaken the "Realtor" Grip - Data is available to all,
propelling the growth of discount brokers, For Sale By Owner sites and
other low-cost marketing efforts.
Trend 4: Sellers Demand to Receive Their Own "Home Page" -
(now this is a cool idea) - Newspaper sites (and every other medium
for home sales) will create 'portals' for clients' homes to help speed
the sale process.
Trend 5: Auctioning Homes will become a real alternative -
Online auctions will solve sales issues for many types of properties
and their sellers. (Dave shared with us an annecdote that "50% of all
homes sold in Australia are sold through an auction" noting that it's
just part of the culture there and has been for about 20 years).
Trend 6: RETS is here, while VOWs and IDX systems are already
old news - With a data standard emerging, transaction information will
flow easily and targeted internet marketing will blossom.
Trend 7: E-commerce replaces call centers as online up sells
print - Self Service becomes the preferred online client experience
and print emerges as a "premium" opportunity for the advertiser.
Trend 8: A la carte systems embrace online - From lawyers to
appraisers to inspectors, the entire home sales process will be faster
and cheaper on the internet.
Trend 9: The future of the MLS is fuzzy.
Trend 10: Online Real Estate dominance is still up for grabs
- The jury remains out on whether newspaper websites can become the
online equivalent of print for most home buyers and sellers.
• Competin
g Against New Threats - What a waste of my time... but not because
the content and presentation wasn't useable, mainly because of the
fact that the panelists are probably 10 times more technologically
savvy than the newspaper business. The panelists were Mark Pincus,
co-founder and CEO of Tribe Networks Inc, Mike Downey, director of
business development, Overture Services, and Dan Finnigan, executive
VP and general manager for Yahoo! HotJobs.
Mark presented Tribe.net well, but I honestly think 95% of the
audience had no idea what he was talking about... Mike told us that
Overture wasn't a competitor to local newspapers, but rather that we
were a desired partner, and Dan talked, but about what I honestly
can't remember (he wouldn't speak into his microphone). My favorite
quote from Mark was that "newspapers don't have a chance in local
search". Whether that's true or not, I couldn't tell you, but hearing
Mark say it at a newspaper conference was funny. I can tell you that
newspapers on a national level don't have a chance to compete with the
likes of Google or Yahoo in the local search market, but there's no
telling that someone out there couldn't build a model that works in
their own market. I could see NYTimes Digital putting together
something that worked for Boston, or WPNI putting together a solution
for D.C. You just never know, 'till it happens.
Overall, this panel wasn't very useable... The audience didn't ask
any questions, and that's always a sign of disconnect between the
panelists and their topics, and what the audience is looking to hear.
I for one would have much rather heard about how newspapers can
compete with the likes of online yellow pages (especially considering
that Superpages is really expanding into the
local online market again) or ways to compete against HotJobs or
Monster rather than hearing about how they 'want to partner with
newspapers'. The topic was "competing" and the panel didn't
deliver.
I will say that it was great to meet Mark at Tribe.net, and I'm
hoping we'll be able to talk again soon.
I didn't attend two sessions because they ran concurrently to the
ones I did attend: Ultra-lo
cal Content and Services and Ultimate Election Coverage. These
two sessions also seemed to focus on content rather than on
advertising, and thus I was more interested in the other
meetings/presentations I attended.
I'm really looking forward to the "New Online Business Plans from
NAA New Media Fellows" presentation on Tuesday and "Registration
Revisited"
Sorry this blog report isn't more full-featured, but it's been a
long day folks... I sure wish the NAA New Media folks were really
blogging the conference, but instead they're showing that 'newspapers
don't get blogs' -- something I hear all the time from my friends that
know blogs...
"Connections..."
"Connections..."
06/17/2004 11:32 AMKeynote's XML Connections
Keynote's XML Connections
11/20/2003 12:41 AMKeynote goes one step further than PowerPoint by making it easy to
dynamically create presentations from within other applications. By
David Miller (O'Reilly Network via MyAppleMenu)
The Value of Thin Connections
The Value of Thin Connections
11/19/2003 03:26 PMI've been guest blogging at the Corante Many2Many site and just posted
an entry on how non-rich connections enable social networks....
Connections are Options
Connections are Options
07/09/2004 12:02 AMTim Oren reacts to my last post and rants on Reed's Law: But, I'm
going to call foul on Ross' handwaving citation of Reed's Law as an
antidote to Sarnoff's broadcasting formulations. Let's get one thing
straight: Reed's Law is...
Making Connections
Making Connections
02/05/2005 09:07 PMWish you could take over someone's browser to point out a new site?
How about using SSH without the terminal and remote-controlling
another computer's desktop?
This week I have a new Firefox extension that lets you
browse tandem, a GUI for SSH, a new version of VNC and more.
Admission is, as always, free so join me for a great bunch of downloads.
A possible fix for slow SSH connections
A possible fix for slow SSH connections
03/31/2005 11:48 AMI noticed that while SSHing to some of my servers at work that
connections where taking forever. The few severs I could actually
connect to would take over two minutes to connect to before I would
get a password prompt. Other...
Lockergnome's Net Connections
Lockergnome's Net Connections
08/16/2004 10:31 AMchannels.lockergnome.com/net
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Blogs for Bush: Web of Connections
Blogs for Bush: Web of Connections
08/22/2004 01:47 PMOBVIOUS and DIRECT connections to the Kerry campaign .. Kevin Patrick
at Blogs for Bush
blogsforbush.com/mt/archives/001759.html#001759
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Tamagotchi Connections Review
Tamagotchi Connections Review
08/17/2004 07:32 AM
Jason Piper shares his impressions of the hottest new virtual pet
(okay, pretty much only virtual pet) in town: the new Tamagotchi
Connection. You might not give a flying flip, but I adored my original
Tamagotchi for at least the first 8 to 10 hours.
When the first Tamagotchi was introduced in the 1998 was an instant
hit but just as quickly turned into a parent's nightmare. The new
keychain based electronic pet would "cry" (translates to a lot of
beeping) for attention non-stop for the first few hours. This for some
children was unnerving and soon discredited the product. Many parents
found themselves taking the child's toy to work to maintain its health
and keep the pet alive to avoid the disturbing news that their kids
pet had gone away.
XPSP2 will limit your max.
connections/sec
XPSP2 will limit your max.
connections/sec
07/20/2004 07:57 AMDisabling MutliCast Connections
Disabling MutliCast Connections
05/31/2004 08:37 AMMaking Connections Possible With
iCollaborate v3.5
Making Connections Possible With
iCollaborate v3.5
08/30/2004 02:34 AMThe Data Corporation announces the release of iCollaborate v3.5,
collaboration software for making connections. [PRWEB Aug 30, 2004]
New connections: the progressive and the
pragmatic
New connections: the progressive and the
pragmatic
03/14/2005 05:05 PM Thomas Friedman, NYT, on a geo-green strategy: "combining
environmentalism and geopolitics is the most moral and realistic
strategy the U.S. could pursue today." Bill Greider, in The Nation on
new thinking about investment strategy: high returns over the long
term, as needed, for instance, by large public pension funds,...
terrorism connections that it brings up
terrorism connections that it brings up
09/18/2004 01:35 PMstarted a series on UNSCAM .. FOX
NEWS
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.NET Rocks! - Reflections on Connections
.NET Rocks! - Reflections on Connections
05/19/2004 11:41 PMWhat started out as a show about the DevConnections Developer
Conference morphed into a roundtable chat with Dan Appleman, Kathleen
Dollard, Mark Dunn, Don Kiely, Robert Scoble, Chris Sells, and Bill
Vaughn about developer conferences like DevConnections, writing books,
speaking, and various other aspects of the industry.
75% of Network Connections Not From
Browsers
75% of Network Connections Not From
Browsers
01/02/2004 01:13 AMUK now has 3 million broadband
connections
UK now has 3 million broadband
connections
12/12/2003 06:50 AMPublicTechnology.net Dec 12 2003 6:11AM ET
Web services: Making connections
Web services: Making connections
01/16/2004 12:59 PMA Web service is a software application available over a network that
uses a standardized XML messaging system and is not tied to any one
operating system or programming language.
Determining Net Connections on the
Computer
Determining Net Connections on the
Computer
06/09/2004 01:49 PMDisable IPv6 for dial-up connections
Disable IPv6 for dial-up connections
05/20/2004 11:45 AMFor those of you poor souls out there in Mac-land that still rely on a
dial-up connection to surf the net, be sure your IPv6 is turned off!
I struggled for many hours trying to establish a connection when I
realized the erro...
Share internet connections on a
192.168.x.x network
Share internet connections on a
192.168.x.x network
04/04/2005 11:17 AMAt the office and connected via AirPort, I get an address on the
192.168.2.x network. Unfortunately, if I attempt to use internet
connection sharing (in the Sharing Preferences panel), this conflicts
with the built-in 192.168...
Palm pitches celebrity connections
Palm pitches celebrity connections
02/13/2004 11:58 AMZDNet Feb 13 2004 3:24PM GMT
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