Connection Manager

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The Connection Manager 1.0rc1

The Connection Manager 1.0rc1 02/17/2004 09:20 PM
A tool to connect to foreign systems using a variety of methods.

HotFix Watch: You are not prompted to
reset the server connection account
during a site reset after you manually
change the server connection account

HotFix Watch: You are not prompted to
reset the server connection account
during a site reset after you manually
change the server connection account 04/25/2004 12:41 PM

The Connection

The Connection 05/29/2004 06:08 PM
The Connection: The Collaboration of Iraq and al Qaeda

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connection back up

connection back up 01/07/2004 04:30 PM

This morning the DSL was still acting up (ie., not working, with traceroute dying at random points on different routes) on many websites worldwide, including Eircom's own DSL support page (dsl-support.eircom.net) which is hosted here in Ireland. So I called up technical support and immediately they told me that the problem was that I had an "invalid IP" assigned. Apparently they have a number of these invalid IPs in the pool (for the PPPoE connections) which they are "trying to remove" and if you get one of those assigned for your dynamic IP a number of sites on the Internet will not be reachable. The solution is to turn off the modem and wait for a while... and if that doesn't work (as in my case, since I did that in the morning) call up tech support and they will release the IP and make sure that the new IP assigned will not be one of the invalid ones. Sounds weird that an IP in the pool might work for some sites and not others. I wonder what kind of routing boxes they are using.

Now, if you ask me, it shouldn't be so hard to write a little program that would check each IP in turn and remove those that don't work no? Why wait until customers complain?

Anyway, if you're in Ireland, use Eircom DSL and you have problems reaching some websites, this might be the reason.

Seeing the Connection (TechWeb)

Seeing the Connection (TechWeb) 08/08/2004 04:03 AM
TechWeb - Thanks to text mining, visualization software can now depict relationships between concepts found in documents and email.

connection problems

connection problems 01/06/2004 11:49 AM

While I finished deleting the spam comments a few hours ago, the Internet connection problems remain. I can't reach several sites, including news sites and weblogs, and neither IM or IRC can connect. Other sites, both in Ireland and abroad, work fine. Definitely weird.

Get the Most Out of Your Broadband
Connection

Get the Most Out of Your Broadband
Connection 08/01/2004 06:58 AM
G4 Tech TV Aug 1 2004 11:13AM GMT

The connection conundrum: 3G or Wi-Fi?

The connection conundrum: 3G or Wi-Fi? 05/17/2004 04:34 PM
ZDNet May 17 2004 7:42PM GMT

An Oil-for-Food Connection?

An Oil-for-Food Connection? 08/01/2004 03:33 AM
On whether any of Saddam's loot made its way into Osama's pockets

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Cheap connection

Cheap connection 06/17/2004 04:18 PM
From Bob Morris writes in response to my newsletter article on how VoIP works: A Dedham MA provider, www.rnktel.com sells prepaid VoIP which is $.01/minute to most places in the world (Latin America being the major exception, where it is (a)poor connections and (b)$.06 and up). On their web site you give your credit card and get $5, $10, or $20 worth of billing. They send you a pin number by email. In their case, you call an access number in the 781 area or one in RI. No one I know has reported finding $.01 service in other...

City first for wi-fi connection

City first for wi-fi connection 08/06/2004 05:55 AM
Preston becomes the first city in England to offer a comprehensive wi-fi service in the city centre.

MySQL Connection

MySQL Connection 09/27/2002 12:11 AM
Allow developers connect with MySQL Server with Log generate. Log class is required. See my classes

MOM FAQ: SQL Connection Memory

MOM FAQ: SQL Connection Memory 04/13/2005 08:56 AM

iPod Connection Kit II

iPod Connection Kit II 04/13/2005 11:03 AM
Dr. Bott, German manufacturer and distributor of Macintosh peripherals, began shipping its iPod Connection Kit II in 2002. The company's original iPod Connection Kit came with an FM transmitter that couldn't be sold everywhere in the world, and with an increasing global demand for the original kit, the company decided to release a worldwide version. "This kit is a great addition to the iPod and provides everything an iPod owner is going to want sooner or later to get the most out of their iPod," Dr. Bott CEO Eric Prentice said. The connection kit works with all iPods and includes a FireWire PocketDock, auto cassette adapter, auto charger, mini stereo extension cable (male/female), mini stereo to RCA cable, mini stereo connection cable (male/male), and an iPod carry pouch. Every product in this ensemble works as expected, from the charger to the great carry pouch, and the only complaint Spymac has with the kit is the change from the FM tuner to the cassette adapter, as not all cars have cassette players, though most have radios. The carry pouch is handy and keeps the iPod protected while on the road, and just as the product promises, the kit let's you take "1,000 songs, anywhere you want." The iPod Connection Kit II can be purchased from Dr. Bott for $47.95. Pros: Contains everything needed for iPod travel Products match iPod Works well Cons: Not everyone has a cassette player www.drbott.com If your company has a product you would like Spymac to review, please send an email to news@spymac.com.

"Slow Connection - 56k"

"Slow Connection - 56k" 06/25/2004 08:26 PM

ir-da connection and PC suite

ir-da connection and PC suite 01/02/2005 01:56 PM
All About Symbian Jan 2 2005 2:44PM GMT

Making the connection

Making the connection 07/24/2004 02:38 AM
USA Today Jul 24 2004 6:09AM GMT

A Cultural Connection
(washingtonpost.com)

A Cultural Connection
(washingtonpost.com) 07/29/2004 11:48 PM
washingtonpost.com - SEOUL -- For the teenagers who trooped through the leafy courtyard of the centuries-old palace in South Korea one recent July day, the Korean government had high hopes.

Cisco Connection Online (CCO)

Cisco Connection Online (CCO) 07/30/2004 12:02 PM

What Does a Connection Mean in a Social
Network?

What Does a Connection Mean in a Social
Network? 08/03/2004 02:58 PM

Peter Caupta IV has a lot to say about bi and uni directional relationships.

BTW I hereby nominate Peter to help create the OpenEvents movement.

Email is Dead. IM is the future. RSS is the future. Social Networks are Useless.

I've been hearing all these predictions and statements. And they are certainly not that far off. These new(ish) technologies are certainly going through their growing pains, but they will certainly challenge the old(ish) ones.

Scott Allen points us to Tim O'Reilly's statement: "all the social software services are a hack because we haven't really reinvented the address book."

The article about O'Reilly's presentation goes on to say:

Tim showed screen shots from a Microsoft Research project that could answer questions such as who you communicate with around this particular topic. The question that follows is how we build tools for creating networks and managing our contacts. These tools could end up as part of Outlook and proprietary software, or they could become a connection between Orkut and GMail. "We have to Napsterize the address book and the calendar so that we own the data about our social network but we are able to query our friends about who they know.

I agree with the vision. But, I am hoping to bring the conversation down a few hundred feet and talk some specifics about issues:

Firstly, distributed event listings and calendars are becoming the norm:

Marc Canter pointed me to RSSCalendar.com today. We've relaunched WhizSpark with crazy-mad-sortable-wicked-searc hable-republishable event rss listings. Upcoming.org has been around for awhile doing similar stuff. SocialWeb.net, although local (and not using xml), has been publishing event listings on other sites for years. Even eVite /IAC iswaking up to the fact that they can't control the event listings of the world (Holding breath on that one!).

So, I don't think distributed and sharable event and schedules are that far off.

But, distributed social networks?

I think there are some issues re: FOAF that need to be addressed, b4 social networks will integrate it in a meaningful way. And when I say meaningful: anything more than allowing them to import profile data and upload connections to be invited.

I've posted some questions up on the FOAF wiki regarding these issues and haven't gotten any answers. [SORRY: See my answers below - Marc]

So, here they are again in statement and question form.

Most social networks (friendster, ryze, linkedin, IM) create bi-directional connections. This is ideal for creating many connections quickly, because both people have incentives to create the connections. The incentive is that they can collaborate. Depending on the network, the collaboration can take a different form. However, for marketing relationships or "fan/nod" relationships, this isn't ideal. To make an analogy to political ideaologies: if you ascribe to socialism and think that all people are created equal and should be treated equally, bi-directional connections are ideal. But, unfortunately (of fortunately), each of us performs differently and each of us has a different status in society. So, this is where these social networks break down. Since, connections between people are not equal, the incentive for "high" status people to join and use these social networks wanes as more people join and abuse the service.

Orkut is an extreme example of where this "jamming equality into unequal relationships" is highlighted. By forcing people to receive an invitation, there are a million requests for invitation that go out to the members. You thought receiving Friendster invitations got annoying, try receiving 150 please invite me messages to orkut. That is how many I have received in the last month.

LinkedIn is an example of where this type of connection really works. The system is designed to screen people b4 passing along messages or information requests. And ultimately, the goal of the users is to collaborate with people. Since Rupert Murdoch probably doesn't want to collaborate with the street vendor selling newspapers, this system works for this purpose. The business people that use linkedin don't just pass out bi-directional connections on a whim, which prevents people from wasting time with requests that don't deliver value to both parties. Bi-directional connections are suited well for finding and forming mutually beneficial business relationships.

Another type of prevalent connection is outbound uni-directional. Examples of this are address books, FOAF, evite & blogrolls. The connection is defined by one person (the sender) and no approval by the receiver is necessary. This is ideal when people want to show their appreciation and respect. Blogrolls, using this type of connection and are what created the infamous A-List of bloggers. (I read 280 blogs and have a link on my blog for each. However, only somewhere between 5 and 10 people have me in their blogroll.)

Outbound uni-directional connections are what allowed evite and hotmail to grow quickly, back in the day. And if we couldn't store our addresses in an address book, think how difficult it would be to use email.

However, this type of freedom to message who-ever we want, can result in unwanted communications. Since a spammer doesn't need permission to send email to an account, they use outbound uni-directional connections to send their shit. Interestingly, the solution that many people are using for spam-blocking is whitelisting, which is in effect, making email connections: bi-directional connections.

The last type of connection is inbound uni-directional. This type of connection is defined by the receiver and approval is either inherent or optional from the sender. Permission email marketing or double-opt-in marketing is the prime example of this. The marketer advertises a list and the receiver signs up and confirms that it is their address. There isn't really an equivalent of this in Instant Messaging in the US, but in Europe (I believe) permission IM marketing is fairly common.

Plaxo also uses inbound uni-directional connections. For example, I have sent my plaxo card to Bill Clinton, but he hasn't returned the favor. So, I gave him permission to message me, but I don't have permission to message him. I've signed up for eMarketer's mailing list, but if I try to reply, the message bounces. I give permission. And don't get it back. I receive emails, but can't respond.

In this "connection framework", does the fact that friendster uses bi-directional connections make it obvious that fakesters will never have a purpose? Whether they were real, created by a member, or created by Friendster themselves, there were many accounts of celebrities on Friendster. But, the whole concept is pretty ridicilous. Imagine if Britney Spears was forced to use bi-directional connections to communicate? How could she possibly use bi-directional connections to communicate with people like this? The only social network that a celebrity could join and use would be one that used inbond uni-directional connections, because the celebrity can allow people to subscribe to them; to be a fan; without being a fan back. The same logic applies to any media company. A media company cannott possibly listen to all of its listeners.

Here comes the commercial: My Company, WhizSpark, has also built a social network which relies on inbound uni-directional connections (see mailing lists). (We relaunched the site last week and would love feedback, btw.) We've designed the system for the promotion of events. Whereas evite uses outbound uni-directional links to get-people-together at mostly non-comercial events and generates revenue from online ads, and upcoming.org requires bi-directional connections to share free event listsings, WhizSpark was designed around the purpose of promoting events where the promoter/planner makes money(or the event is a marketing expense). In this scenario, getting permission to market-to is necessary, and thus, we use inbound uni-directional connections.

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So, to start addressing Tim O'Reilly's statement about how noone has reinvented the address book yet, I think we need to keep in mind all of the types of connections that are required by different people. In this "connection framework", It is easier to conceptualize what features of different communication and collaboration technologies/applications (IM, RSS, email, social networks, FOAF) will make sense for what purposes. Then, maybe our blog discussions can progress beyond what technology will win and what technology is the best. I know football is exciting and our politics have certainly regressed to two sides fighting it out like it is the super bowl. But in technology, there are certainly still some gray areas left. Right?

Here's my response to Peter's request and quesions on the FOAFnet.org Wiki.....

Hey Peter - sorry for not catching this earlier.

Here's some answers for you and I'll cc: them on my blog (in response to your EXCELLENT, brilliant post....)

The notion of bi-directional relationships can easily be represented in FOAF by defining new kinds of relationships. In our PeopleAggregator product we have 7 kinds of relationships, Tony Perkin's AlwaysOn Network also has several types of relationships.

But no one else supports those new relationship types. It's the agreement between systems that you're asking for.....

Ideally everything would happen imediately - but I want you to take a phased in approach to this.

Each specific type of relationship can be kept track of in a FOAF file. That's clear. We just have to agree upon WHAT exactly is the schema and related APIs to the functionality your request.

We here - are ALL looking forward to the day when more complex, granular, ineffected, relevant relationships can be standardized and exchanged, shared, hidden and every other way you can think of interacting between people.

But the goal of the FOAFnet - first things first - is to exhibit some sort of inter-company agreement to exchange compatible idenitity records. Just getting that to happen is our biggest hurdle. Once that mechanism has been worked out we plan on flowing all sorts of additional information through FOAF. Including what you're requesting.

So what I'd like you to do is to take it upon yourself to help us map out our roadmap. This issue of starting too slow, not biting off enough, crippling FOAFs potential has come up again and again.

And our answer has always been "baby steps before running". We're all experienced at trying to get one of these things working - and we all know what happens when you try and bite off too much.

So PLEASE put onto the roadmap page - the specific tiered step by step manner we ALL can utilize to get us from simple import/export - to the semantic web.

I'd love to talk to you on the phone about this - but for now - there's also the issue of MERGING FOAF files, updating or hot-linking FOAF files and let's not forget all those triple-like rdf vocabs that we left behind - either!

So if you could at least map out an evolution of relevant relationship types - and look at Ed Vitiello's relationship schema - that would be coolio.

Thanks!

Adding a Printer Connection

Adding a Printer Connection 09/07/2004 09:51 PM

GSA Severs Ties With PC Connection

GSA Severs Ties With PC Connection 11/17/2003 03:12 PM
Internet News Nov 17 2003 1:50PM ET

Jack Audio Connection Kit 0.90.0

Jack Audio Connection Kit 0.90.0 11/17/2003 03:01 PM
A low-latency audio server.

Tamagotchi Connection Hits US

Tamagotchi Connection Hits US 08/11/2004 01:59 PM

They won't hit the rest of the US stores until this Sunday, but the new Tamagotchi Connection virtual pets were released ahead of schedule yesterday in New York and Los Angeles. The main difference between the new and old Tamagotchi is the inclusion of wireless links that will allow different Tamagotchi pets to marry and have children. Think of it as an important introduction of children to the perils of online dating, without so much of the rashes.

Read - Product Page [TamagotchiConnection]

THAT connection between Al Qaeda and
Saddam

THAT connection between Al Qaeda and
Saddam 11/16/2003 08:09 AM
has heard that an intel memo .. Here's another full text .. posted a copy .. Look again .. (†) .. LGF

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cost of the internet connection (PPP)

cost of the internet connection (PPP) 11/15/2003 06:34 AM
pppcounter, v0.3.5 bugfix version released

eBay's French Connection

eBay's French Connection 08/18/2004 05:08 PM
The PayPal expansion is one more step toward the company's global growth.

How really fast is your Internet
connection?

How really fast is your Internet
connection? 09/07/2004 08:11 PM
The Hindu Sep 8 2004 0:42AM GMT

Intel's VC Arm Makes Connection

Intel's VC Arm Makes Connection 12/09/2003 07:18 AM
SiliconValley.Internet.com Dec 9 2003 6:37AM ET

Setting VPN Connection Priorities?

Setting VPN Connection Priorities? 07/19/2004 08:28 PM

Scripting SMS: Making a Connection

Scripting SMS: Making a Connection 07/19/2004 06:47 PM

9/11 terror connection confounds Mo. man

9/11 terror connection confounds Mo. man 04/22/2004 09:07 AM

Senate Weighs Web Connection Tax Ban
(AP)

Senate Weighs Web Connection Tax Ban
(AP) 04/25/2004 09:58 PM
AP - Sen. John McCain is working to revive a bill banning taxes on Internet connections, a measure that bogged down last year amid worries that state and local governments could lose billions in tax revenue.

Senate Weighs Web Connection Tax Ban

Senate Weighs Web Connection Tax Ban 04/25/2004 11:31 PM
Guardian Unlimited Apr 26 2004 2:40AM GMT

Senate Debates Ban on Web Connection Tax
(AP)

Senate Debates Ban on Web Connection Tax
(AP) 04/26/2004 07:08 PM
AP - After months of unproductive negotiations, senators resumed battle Monday over a bill banning taxes on Internet service providers.

The Connection on the Anti-Blog

The Connection on the Anti-Blog 05/11/2004 10:42 AM
George Packer of the New Yorker is on the NPR talk show, The Connection, complaining about blogs because, first, they're addictive, and second, they're frequently written quickly and contain shallow ideas. He assumes blogs are like second-string columnists and misses entirely the role of millions of blogs as as social phenomenon. So, I figure I should point this out in a blog entry written quickly and without any interesting ideas....

Switch AirPort Connection 1.0

Switch AirPort Connection 1.0 01/26/2004 09:54 PM
Switch AirPort Connection is an AppleScript that switches your AirPort network connection. It takes the last name of its own filename and uses that as the name of the wireless network to join. Next it tries to look up the password for this network name in the Keychain, and finally it switches the connection.

Etisalat set to take 3G connection
indoors

Etisalat set to take 3G connection
indoors 05/31/2004 01:12 AM
Gulf News May 31 2004 4:57AM GMT

Bullet Proof Connection v3.0

Bullet Proof Connection v3.0 01/17/2004 10:58 PM
Bullet Proof Connection is an intelligent internet surfing simulator that prevents you from being disconnected from your Internet Service Provider(ISP). The simulator tricks the ISP into believing that the internet activities are active. By using Bullet Proof Connection the so-called 'Unlimited Internet Access' will now become a reality!Bullet Proof Connection has been tested on over 800 computers. [Shareware $15.00 30 Days 533 KB]
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