Finland OKs 3G Network Sharing
Grok Headline matches for Finland OKs 3G Network Sharing
Sharing Network Places
Sharing Network Places
06/25/2004 02:05 PM3G Network Sharing in Australia
3G Network Sharing in Australia
08/05/2004 05:27 AM3G Aug 5 2004 9:20AM GMT
3G network sharing looks the goods
3G network sharing looks the goods
08/30/2004 10:02 AMSydney Morning Herald Aug 30 2004 2:15PM GMT
The home sharing network
The home sharing network
05/06/2004 12:16 AMBoston Globe May 6 2004 4:54AM GMT
Printer Sharing on a Home Network
Printer Sharing on a Home Network
06/08/2004 06:06 AMMyDoom.A Machines : The new P2P Sharing
Network ...
MyDoom.A Machines : The new P2P Sharing
Network ...
02/10/2004 04:14 PMK-OTiK Security (Feb 10 2004)
Re: MyDoom.A Machines : The new P2P
Sharing Network ...
Re: MyDoom.A Machines : The new P2P
Sharing Network ...
02/11/2004 03:09 PMNicolas Gregoire (Feb 11 2004)
Telstra, Hutch in 3G network sharing de
al
Telstra, Hutch in 3G network sharing de
al
08/04/2004 03:22 PMThe Standard Aug 4 2004 7:41PM GMT
Corporate Mercenaries Create Sharing
Network
Corporate Mercenaries Create Sharing
Network
04/09/2004 03:57 PMWP. In response to the challenge of non-state
networks intent on the destruction of the nation-state system, the US
formulated its own non-state actors. These corporate mercenaries
are now creating their own network in response to US
inaction.
Under assault by insurgents and unable to rely on U.S. and
coalition troops for intelligence or help under duress, private
security firms in Iraq have begun to band together in the past 48
hours, organizing what may effectively be the largest private army in
the world, with its own rescue teams and pooled, sensitive
intelligence.
The CPA's program management office has sought bids for a
project to coordinate security among the 10 largest prime contractors
and their subcontractors working on U.S.-backed reconstruction
projects worth $18.4 billion. But the bids are still under review. In
the meantime, the office is "trying to get at least some level of
intelligence sanitized from the military that could be given to
contractors," said Capt. Bruce A. Cole, spokesman for the program
management office in Baghdad. That has not happened yet. The
firms, stunned by the casualties they suffered this week and by the
lack of a military response, have begun banding together to share
their own operations-center telephone numbers and tips on threats, as
well as to organize ways to rescue one another in a crisis.
"Each private firm amounts to an individual battalion," said
one U.S. government official familiar with the developments. "Now they
are all coming together to build the largest security organization in
the world."
Is this a return of the c
ondotteiri?
VMware aims to secure network sharing
VMware aims to secure network sharing
09/19/2004 11:26 PMReleases beta software to protect company networks used by outside
contractors and telecommuters.
FCC sets interim network-sharing rules
FCC sets interim network-sharing rules
08/20/2004 08:02 PMASHINGTON - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will
require incumbent telephone carriers to continue offering parts of
their networks to competitors while the commission rewrites those
network-sharing rules.
DOJ won't appeal telecom network-sharing
ruling
DOJ won't appeal telecom network-sharing
ruling
06/09/2004 05:35 PMThe Office of the Solicitor General has decided not to appeal a court
ruling overturning much of the Federal Communication Commission's
(FCC) rules on network-sharing among telecommunications companies.
U.S. DOJ won't appeal telecom
network-sharing ruling
U.S. DOJ won't appeal telecom
network-sharing ruling
06/09/2004 05:14 PMThe U.S. solicitor general won't appeal a court ruling that overturned
much of the FCC's rules on network sharing among telecommunications
companies.
New Network Tool Tries To Block Illegal
File Sharing
New Network Tool Tries To Block Illegal
File Sharing
04/21/2004 12:54 PMPalisade Systems appears to be the first network monitoring company to
license Audible Magic's technology for identifying song files, and
claims that their new tool can
stop illegal song
file transfers in their tracks. There are a few other companies
out there like Palisade, and I imagine they're all working on
something similar. Announcements like this make the RIAA happy, but
are unlikely to do very much. As the article points out, the
technology doesn't work on encrypted systems - which is where file
sharing programs are rapidly headed. Also, the company still hasn't
demonstrated how well the technology works. It's likely that active
file sharers will figure out ways around it within a day, making the
technology somewhat worthless in the long run. Meanwhile, people who
will get stopped are those who aren't necessarily trying to do
anything illegal, but are just doing things like emailing themselves a
song, so they can shift it from one computer to another. Once again,
the industry will end up pushing file sharers further underground, but
it's unlikely this will do much to slow down file sharing.
Reinventing the wheel: MIT's "music
sharing network"
Reinventing the wheel: MIT's "music
sharing network"
10/29/2003 12:13 AMGateWall Proxy Server, the Internet
Connection Sharing Tool, the Swiss Knife
for Network Administrators
GateWall Proxy Server, the Internet
Connection Sharing Tool, the Swiss Knife
for Network Administrators
04/19/2005 03:45 AMeSafeLine announces the first release of GateWall proxy server, the
latest version of an easy-to-use, yet highly functional tool for
connecting local network to the Internet and controlling users
activities. The program builds on the unprecedented success of
UserGate proxy server, which was introduced in January, 2002 and
received the highest customer adoption within the Russian software
market. GateWall developers have expanded the functionality of its
predecessor while utilizing the most popular features of UserGate.
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ALL MULTIPLE P2P NETWORK FILE SHARING
SOFTWARE ARE NOT THE SAME: TrustyFiles
2.2 update adds Bit Torrent access and
delivers the fastest and most results
and download sources with 100% native
code.
06/07/2004 02:37 AMRazorPop, Inc. announced the release of TrustyFiles 2.2 Personal File
Sharing software at http://www.TrustyFiles.com. The performance-driven
update cements TrustyFile’s position as the leader in Multi-P2P
network software. TrustyFiles 2.2 features 100% native code and adds
Bit Torrent network support. TrustyFiles continues to be FREE with
NO spyware and NO additional bundled software. [PRWEB Jun 7, 2004]
Through Finland in Packets
Through Finland in Packets
06/17/2005 04:27 PM
« Crime scene jesus. »
Ever since the Washington Post started doing their 'Finland Journal'
blog I've been thinking about saying something, but wanted to wait
until they had finished the series and until I had enough time to
think about what I wanted to say without sounding like one of the many
wackjobs, both Finnish and American, whose comments ranged from
explaining how to pronounce SOW-na to ranting about the Swedish
Fascist oppression in Finland to bickering about nothing. Mostly I
just found the commentary deeply depressing as monoculture was praised
as the reason for all the good things in Finland and the reason for
all the bad things in the US a bit more often than I found
comfortable. I come from one of the most fucked up nations on the
planet, but I'm awfully glad for the variety of people there since it
is the greatest asset the US has in terms of creativity and
innovation. Being a threat to this vaunted Finnish monoculture is not
a fun place to be at times. Some expats just complain, some never do
and the rest of us try to get on with life as best as we can and
occasionally, cautiously, commiserate over beer and try to focus on
the positive things as much as possible. One of the reasons I like my
'cookery' is that it's fun to explore the differences in cuisine, I'm
reasonably good at it, it's something positive, and nobody hates the
person who brings tasty treats for afternoon coffee. :)
There has been a lot of criticism among the foreigners, and even a Phinn, here about the series since visiting somewhere
as a journalist on an official junket likely sponsored by the state
vs. living here are two very different experiences and given the
inevitable superficiality of the WP coverage, a lot of us were
disappointed. One of the reasons that Finland is supposedly the
"country that Americans know least about" is that aside from the usual
Santa, sauna and sisu stories, very little else gets written in
English about this country. I've taken to collecting books on travel
to Finland, some more than 100 years old, and I could match the topics
nearly 1:1 with the old travelogues to the Finland Journal coverage.
In fact, I think I liked the bitchy and less fawning Mrs. Tweedie's
Through Finland in Carts from 1898 much better as, in
spite of her unsavoury British imperialism, she was a far more snarky
and entertaining writer. But, again, same shit, different century.
Surely, even the Finns must bore of this though the clichés are what
keep the tourists coming. It's like the hackneyed 'pahk ya cah in
Havahd Yahd' and Paul Revere legends of Boston. The Boston strangler,
townies and Southie don't get a lot of press since they aren't exactly
attractive to locals much less to tourists.
For the expats, there's precisely dick to prepare them for what
awaits them making a life here. Trying to explain how Finland differs
for residents as opposed to tourists to the newly arrived is a chore
since you either sound bitter or are constantly doubting your own
experience of everything in a miasma of cultural relativism and
personal baggage. A lot of us come to live here because we have a
spouse/SO, a spouse/SO who very likely does not have an objective view
or an understanding of the difference between being Finnish and being
not Finnish in Finland. I was in quite a sulk for a few weeks after I
met an Aus-Fin couple who had moved here and, after two months, the
Australian was escaping in defeat after being told repeatedly in
interviews that her education credentials were worthless in Finland,
the downside of an educational system regarded, and which regards
itself, so highly. Her boyfriend seemed completely surprised by this
and felt badly for not being a better judge of his own country. With
the dearth of realistic information for those wanting to move here,
many have no other choice than to trust their Finnish loved one which
may or may not prove to be the best option. This seems to happen more
often than not as expats don't often stay for more than a few years
before giving up and heading back home, with or without the spouse/SO.
I don't know if immigration actually keeps track of those who leave
and why, but it would be interesting to see the average length of stay
for expats as I expect it is generally very short. How many of the
foreigners work for Nokia would also be an interesting statistic.
The question this raises is why do people leave? Finland is, in many
ways, a lovely country, but why do expats frequently only stay for a
short while? It's an important question, one few seem curious about or
willing to discuss. The most frequent rebuttals to any criticism or
merely mentioning that life here can be a challenge is that it's "the
same everywhere" or that we can always just pack up and go home.
Ironically, I would expect this sort of chiding from red state
Americans. I think that this might be at the heart of much of our
nebulous reasons for struggle here; that Finland is a young country,
even by American standards, and with a long history of fighting off
invading outsiders, Finland has developed a very, very strong streak
of nationalism. What's wrong with nationalism? Well, after 9/11, I saw
neighbours wanting to beat the shit out of the grocers down the street
who had been there for over 20 years because suddenly they were those
dark towel heads, "them", who flew into the WTC instead of the two
brothers who had been selling them their groceries for decades.
Nationalism separates as much as it binds and mostly it just makes
people blind and monumentally stupid.
One of the first memorable experiences was while walking HB down
Bulevardi about a week after arriving here and running into a smiling
little old lady who wanted to pet him and started chatting me up. As
soon as I started to say something the smile fell off her face which
was replaced by a scowl full of scorn whereupon she screeched
something, waved me off and stalked away in a huff. I was like, what
the fuck just happened? This would be repeated quite a few times and,
in spite of being able to rationalise the behaviour, first impressions
tend to be difficult to change. I remain rather shy about being busted
as a foreigner and still have a very difficult time daring to say
anything to strangers. In the dog park, I'll stand around
understanding everything the other dog owners are saying but don't
join the conversation which has, on occasion, marked me as a foreigner
just as much as saying something would have. :)
Generally, it's the small things, the day to day things, the very
difficult to define things, that make life as an outsider here a daily
struggle. Learning the language is the single largest hurdle in
bridging the gap and becoming less of an alien, but after two years
I'm still cautious, still shy, still neurotic about speaking it to the
point of avoiding situations where I might have to say something to
someone because I'm scared of being busted as an outsider. We all have
little defensive tactics like this, depending on our individual
hang-ups and struggles. One of my friends visited home a while back
and she remarked in an email that she was in awe of how suddenly aware
she was of how the little daily things in Finland make life so much
more work than back in the realm of the friendly familiarity of home.
Some things, however, aren't so vague, but these are the things we
don't talk about or quietly discuss amongst ourselves because they're
either too depressing to dwell upon or tend to be met with
vituperative attacks. There are things endemic to being an expat, a
foreigner in a strange land, that often make you wonder if it's you,
if you're not trying hard enough or if it's the culture that is
responsible for the discontent and many things often do have simple
explanations, if not simple solutions. I have lived elsewhere and,
given the culture and the language barrier, Finland is a very
challenging place to find a happy niche whether or not any Finns want
to hear or acknowledge that. It's not a destination for the easily
discouraged or the impatient.
Recently, I had the pleasure of talking to a couple with two adorable
basset hounds who had just returned to Finland after 7 years abroad
who remarked at how "international" Helsinki seemed nowadays. There
are many words I'd use to describe Helsinki, most of them nice even,
but international wouldn't be one of them. Being part of the EU while
rejecting or reluctantly accepting some of the things that come with
being part of the EU, like foreigners, doesn't make a place
international any more than dining out at a Nepalese restaurant makes
you a world traveller. This doesn't mean Finland should aspire to the
problems of the Netherlands, but acknowledging the problems that exist
here for foreigners might be something to consider since people do
generally tend to stay in places that they feel welcome in and
Finland, either intentionally or not, often gives outsiders the
impression that we are either not welcome or just merely tolerated. If
Finland doesn't want foreigners, it should really just pull out of the
EU and close the borders.
So, I suppose the point of my rambling is that there are at least a
few of us around who like it here and are trying with sincerity to
learn the language, fit in and get along like everyone else but there
are so many conflicting messages between what we read in the paper or
hear from our spouses and what we actually experience at times that it
makes it difficult to reconcile the disparity and still keep on
trying. It's a struggle. It's like bloody musical chairs watching all
the expats leave one by one.
The Weird Als of Finland
The Weird Als of Finland
06/30/2004 06:07 PM
Finland has a dance called the humppa, but it's spoken of with the
same disdain that disco gets in the US these days. It's for the
geezers. I have been told it is something like the German polka only
without the lederhosen, which is good since I'm half German and, after
a few Straßenfests where people jump around in lederhosen with
buckets of beer in their hands barely able to stand up, much less
dance, the costumes just don't really add much to the overall
aesthetic. I had a biology professor, a Bavarian who was really into
opera singing, show up for a lecture in lederhosen and dance a polka
for us while we sat there speechless. Everyone thought he was nuts,
but I just thought he was hopelessly homesick and I couldn't imagine
him doing that dance without the full costume in his usually
disheveled professor uniform. I have been spared, so far, the
spectacle of drunk Finns hopping around much like drunk Germans to
goofy music. So far.
While we were off at the lake for Juhannus, my ear picked up
something that sounded a lot like Viva Las Vegas but....not. I
was informed that it was a group called Eläkeläiset [the
pensioners] who are the humppa song gods in Finland and, well,
everywhere else people like to humppa. I fried a few neurons just
thinking about an Elvis tune done in humpaa/polka time. I can't
describe their music except to say that they are the Weird Al
Yankovics of Finland. Sample the Peljätty Humppa [2.2mb] and try to guess the song they are
covering and be very, very afraid. It's like Ethyl Merman singing a
disco version of No
Business like Show Business [yes, she really did...], as it's
so bad that it transcends the badness and is irresistibly brilliant. I
must have more of their music. The guys actually have a regular band,
Kumikameli, but I can't
really tell the difference between the samples on that web site and
the humppa music so it may be just a nuance only a Finn can hear. :)
The lyrics are
very clever and, unsurprisingly, the music is popular with the
polka loving Germans. There even seems to be an OpenBSD-Humppa
connection which does help explain a few things about OpenBSD. Weird
Al has done a polka album so perhaps it is time he teamed up with
Eläkeläiset and did a humppa album. Disturbing thought. *zot* There
went another neuron.
Wireless Finland
Wireless Finland
03/06/2004 01:55 AM
The Helsingin Sanomat ran an article in the paper earlier this week
about the growing number of wireless access points in Helsinki and
around Finland. The article included a nice map noting the locations
which I scanned in and offer here in a small ~60k jpg and a large ~240k jpg. It seems
that most of the current hot spots are catering to the business
traveller judging from the number of hotels and business centers
listed. There are a few cafes and a movie theatre or two listed though
and my hope is that it finds sufficient interest to keep spreading.
I've had wireless at home for years now and find it luxurious to sit
on the couch with my laptop even now. I'd really like to see WiFi in
public libraries in addition to more coffee shops since students would
benefit a lot from being able to use their own computer while doing
research or homework.
There are two companies offering WiFi; Sonera and DNA. DNA seems to
be geared more towards the local geeks and ala carte folks while
Sonera is mainly in the hotel and business traveller market. Sonera Homerun doesn't appear to have a pricing
structure on the net. The DNA WLAN service has three different price plans which
range from €5 per month with a per minute fee to €90 for
those with a serious porn habit and large downloads.
Until mobile phones get much more sophisticated displays, surfing the
net or reading email with them more than occasionally isn't as
attractive as having a small laptop and WiFi in convenient spots
around town. WiFi really means WIreless FInland. :)
Dan Gillmor in Finland
Dan Gillmor in Finland
03/14/2005 06:21 PMFor anyone who's been following the
late journalism-debate, the Man Himself, i.e.
Dan Gillmor
is
coming to Finland. Please join him in an open session at
Korjaamo,
Helsinki, Tuesday, 12 April at 18:00. I'll certainly try to be there.
Ja sama suomeksi: Dan Gillmor,
toimittaja-bloggaaja, joka on puhunut pitkään kansalaisjournalismin
puolesta, on tulossa puhumaan avoimeen keskustelutilaisuuteen
Helsingissä, Korjaamolla, tiistaina 12.
huhtikuuta kello 18.00. Tervetuloa!
(Via Jyri.)
From Finland, the land of the original
From Finland, the land of the original
12/26/2003 07:54 PM Rare Exports, Inc.
They deliver the extremely rare original Finnish product to nearly 150
countries every Christmas, exclusively. It's a big download (the
small version is 35.5 MB) but that's nothing compared to the patience
these hunters must have to catch their prey. [NSFW, via
MonkeyFilter.]
W3C Offices Expand to Finland
W3C Offices Expand to Finland
09/06/2002 04:44 AM6 September 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the opening of the W3C
Finnish Office in Tampere, Finland, hosted by the Digital Media
Institute of the Tampere University of Technology. Tarja Systä is
Office Manager, and Ossi Nykänen is coordinator. The opening ceremony
takes place 11 October in Tampere. Read about W3C Offices. (News
archive)
Explosion in Finland: 7 Dead
Explosion in Finland: 7 Dead
10/15/2002 07:15 AMExplosion in Finland: 7 Dead
From Yahoo News via Google News:
A bomb ripped through a one of Finland's largest shopping malls,
killing seven people, injuring 59 others and stunning a nation
unaccustomed to violence. Government officials didn't rule ...
[ More ]
Good lord. What's going on in the world. Snipers in the U.S. and a
bomber in Finland ....
Finland no comprende computers
Finland no comprende computers
06/06/2005 12:11 AMSchizo-J
anne asks why Finland is lagging behind in WLAN deployments.
There are roughly three free WiFi hotspots in Helsinki, a major
difference to our neighbour Tallinn, which has open WiFi almost
everywhere in the city center. Well, the Finnish cities of Oulu,
Turku, and Lahti have already started lacing themselves with WLAN
networks, and the Lappeenranta University of Technology WLAN network
is to my understanding also spreading into the city, so the situation
is not really that bad.
But Janne is right to ask this. Finland is not really very
innovative in this area at the moment, partly because it's not seen as
very important. A lot of Finland's technological and financial
innovation is currently poured towards the 3G (aka WCDMA, aka UMTS)
development and deployment. While technologically it offers a similar
solution to WLAN, and Finns are doing pretty well in mobile phone
usage (though nowhere near the top), there is one key difference that
people tend to ignore when talking about these things.
Freedom to innovate.
In order for you to develop a fancy new 3G app, you need to talk to
and appease operators, cell phone manufacturers, and all sorts of
different companies that are in the so-called "value chain".
Everybody wants their small piece of it, and you end up thinking
about things like "brand dilution" and "quality of
service" and "code signing". All this creates quite a
lot of energy, and it does not guarantee that you will create a good
app - it just means that you are really good at presenting your case,
and it does make sense to a lot of people. Even if you wanted to just
build a simple SMS-based service, you would need quite a lot of
investment of at least time, if not capital, to interface with the
network: you need the PC with a bunch of cell phones attached. Or buy
a platform from an operator.
Open WLAN, however, means that you can start to innovate at very,
very low costs. Web space is cheap, PHP can be done by anyone, and
startup costs are minimal. All you need is the idea, and the tools
and the knowledge are mostly there already. Granted, you can also run
a browser-based application on a 3G phone, no problem, but this always
is at cost to the user: the browser-based UI is not optimal for a
small device. And developing an optimized GUI for a mobile device is
difficult and sometimes nerve-wrecking.
You can split the space in two ways: you can concentrate on
innovating vertically : building entire solutions from the low
bits to the end application. Or you can innovate horizontally
- build platforms which allow other people to innovate and build upon.
3G or WLAN.
It's just like "Nokia or Linux".
I'm not saying Nokia wasn't a success, obviously it was (and is).
But I do believe that in the future, it's more probable to see a new
Linux-like success story than a Nokia-like success story coming from
Finland. Which is why supporting platforms for free innovation would
be so important.
Part 3G Networks In Finland
Part 3G Networks In Finland
04/19/2004 07:03 AM3G Apr 19 2004 11:08AM GMT
Anonymous file sharing network not so
anonymous after all?
Anonymous file sharing network not so
anonymous after all?
12/02/2003 12:12 PMAn anonymous file-sharing network, "Winny," has proven to be not so
anonymous for 2 Japanese men who were arrested for trading games and
films.
Larry Lessig to speak in Finland
Larry Lessig to speak in Finland
05/21/2004 06:54 AM(Via
Jyri). Toimitus
suosittelee, ja kiroilee kun ei itse pääse paikalle.
KUTSU
Avoin luento ja keskustelutilaisuus
Professor Lawrence Lessig Helsingissä
"The Future of Copyright, Culture and Creativity"
Maanantaina 24.5. klo 17.30
Kulttuuritehdas Korjaamo, Töölönkatu 51 b
Tervetuloa avoimeen keskustelutilaisuuteen Professori Lawrence Lessigin kanssa
Helsingissä maantantaina 24.5. klo 17.30 Korjaamolla, Töölönkatu
51b. Professori Lessig on yksi maailman tunnetuimpia ajattelijoita,
kirjoittajia ja luennoitsijoita digitaalisen kulttuurin, median ja
tekijänoikeuksien kehityksestä. Nyt suomalaisella yleisöllä on
ainutlaatuinen mahdollisuus kuulla ja haastaa kansainvälistä
vaikuttajaa. Teemana on "The Future of Copyright, Culture and
Creativity."
Tilaisuuden järjestää Aula. Aula on avoin verkosto, joka tukee
ajatusten vaihtoa poikki rajojen.
Tätä kutsua voi lähettää sähköisesti eteenpäin kaikille
kiinnostuneille.
* * *
INVITATION
You are invited to an open discussion with Professor Lawrence Lessig on Monday
24.5. at 17.30 at Korjaamo, Töölönkatu 51 b in Helsinki.
Professor Lessig will speak on "The Future of Copyright, Culture
and Creativity" followed by a discussion with the audience. The
event will be held in English and is free and open to the public.
The event is organized by Aula. Aula is an open network that
promotes the exchange of ideas across boundaries.
Please forward this invitation to anyone you feel would be interested
in attending.
About the speaker
Lawrence Lessig (http://www.lessig.org/) is a
Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's
Center for Internet and Society. Prior to joining the Stanford
faculty, he was the Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.
Lessig was also a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and a
Professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He clerked for
Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice
Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court.
More recently, Professor Lessig represented web site operator Eric
Eldred in the ground-breaking case Eldred v. Ashcroft, a challenge to
the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. Lessig was named one
of Scientific American's Top 50 Visionaries, for arguing "against
interpretations of copyright that could stifle innovation and
discourse online."
Lessig teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, law and
high technology, Internet regulation, comparative constitutional law,
and the law of cyberspace. His book, Code, and Other Laws of
Cyberspace, was published by Basic Books, and The Future of Ideas: The
Fate of the Commons in a Connected World, is available from Random
House. His most recent book, Free Culture: How Big Media Uses
Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity, is
now available online at http://www.free-culture.cc and
from Penguin Press.
Professor Lessig chairs the Creative Commons project (http://creativecommons.org/faq). Professor Lessig is a board member of the Electronic Frontier
Foundation, a board member of the Center for the Public Domain, and a
Commission Member of the Penn National Commission on Society, Culture
and Community at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Lessig
earned a BA in economics and a BS in management from the University of
Pennsylvania, an MA in philosophy from Cambridge, and a JD from
Yale.
Nokia phone explodes in Finland
Nokia phone explodes in Finland
11/06/2003 11:14 AMCounterfeit battery to blame
Commercial bl0gs entering Finland
Commercial bl0gs entering Finland
04/08/2005 06:39 PMMy my, what an interesting week this has been: First,
Blogilista goes
commercial, and now
Pirkka-magazine has launched a number
of commercial blogs. The Finnish blogosphere reacts
with violent distrust and
confusion.
I see no problem. These are clearly blogs, simply because th
e only meaningful definition for the world blog is based on form,
not content. They're not lying about their affiliation. They publish
polished content. In fact, I find it wonderful that a media publisher
dares to go and try and embrace the new media. They even publish Atom
feeds for all blogs! Way!
However, entering the blogosphere may be more difficult than just
dumping Movabletype on your magazine web site: people will look
at these blogs. They will discuss. They will find crap
on them (if there's any). They will write about it. And it's
difficult to ignore them, if you want to keep your credibility. Other
bloggers will call your bullshit - and very likely, someone in that
bunch is at least equal in writing skills and more knowledgeable on
the subject than you. And they know it.
Now the question is how much integrity Pirkka wants to have: do
they just want to publish news articles in a blog format - or do they
really want to go full out and really try to embrace the dialogue that
comes with the format?
You see, whatever else blogs may be, they work best as a
personal media. You need to let people write with their own
voice, not just copying material from others - even if you have all
the rights to do so. It's the power and bane of the format; a
personal touch creates reader loyalty, but it also means that you
have to get involved in your writing - "laittaa itsensä
likoon", as the Finns say. And that is not easy.
Welcome to the crowd! I'm happy you're here, anyway. People will
grumble, but there's always room for one more in the jacuzzi.
(A quick hint to Pirkka writers: Read http://www.corporateblogging
.info/, and Scoble's Corporat
e Blogging Manifesto. Understand. Internalize. And stop posting
articles from one person under the name of another... That simply takes
away credibility from the author.)
(And a quick other hint to people who complain about these being on
blogilista.fi: get
a clue. Really. Would you stop using a phone book simply because it
contains company phone numbers, or stop using Google because it's
*gasp* a profit-making company? That's exactly what Blogilista.fi is
- an index of blogs, nothing more. It ain't your personal
blogospheric community where people live happily and go to the woods
to get undressed and hug each other in a blogoslavic überbliss. If
you don't like the direction they're taking, learn to use RSS and site feeds,
and make your own personal bloglist.
Blogging in Finland is finally growing up. The hype around
blogging will cease in a year or two, and hopefully we then can better
understand what the media is and what one can do with it. And then we
can get back to the really important thing: writing. Writing about
your dog, or your political views, or celebrity divorces, or company
products, or food, or your sex life, or whatever pleases you. Some
bloggers will gain prestige; some bloggers will become influential;
some bloggers will make many people laugh; some bloggers will make
many people weep. Some will be completely ignored. Most will just
for
...
Educators Flocking to Finland, Land of
Literate Children
Educators Flocking to Finland, Land of
Literate Children
04/09/2004 08:02 PMIf one trait sets Finland apart from many other countries, it is the
quality and social standing of its teachers.
Sharing Ideas Just Got Easier: Blogging,
Keyword Tagging, File Sharing, Social
Networking … And That’s Just For
Starters!
Sharing Ideas Just Got Easier: Blogging,
Keyword Tagging, File Sharing, Social
Networking … And That’s Just For
Starters!
03/23/2005 04:46 AMLaunched this month, Apcala is a web system that allows you to share
photographs, audio, video, documents and personalised profiles with
friends, family, other Apcala users and the Internet at large. It’s
advertising free and free to use. [PRWEB Mar 23, 2005]
Finland telecoms: Nokia unveils handheld
internet tablet
Finland telecoms: Nokia unveils handheld
internet tablet
06/24/2005 03:06 PMEbusinessforum.com - Fri Jun 24, 12:15 pm GMT
PiXPO image sharing software enables
instant photo sharing, chatting and now
adds free web-hosting of shared images
PiXPO image sharing software enables
instant photo sharing, chatting and now
adds free web-hosting of shared images
07/22/2004 02:41 AMHow2Share Technologies Inc. announced today the release of the PiXPO™
1.5. PiXPO combines photo album management, secure photo sharing, and
instant messaging to enable fast photo sharing without delays. [PRWEB
Jul 22, 2004]
Flickr (Flicker) photo sharing IM
instant messenger instant message
friendster realtime media sharing real
time online community
Flickr (Flicker) photo sharing IM
instant messenger instant message
friendster realtime media sharing real
time online community
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FlashPoint launches fastest photo
sharing on the Internet. Innovative
Qurio Instant Photo Server allows
instant photo sharing with anyone, any
time, anywhere, directly from the
control of your own PC.
FlashPoint launches fastest photo
sharing on the Internet. Innovative
Qurio Instant Photo Server allows
instant photo sharing with anyone, any
time, anywhere, directly from the
control of your own PC.
09/09/2004 03:46 AMFlashPoint prepares to unlock the pictures of more than 40 million
digital camera owners who have their pictures trapped in their PC.
Consumers are tired of trying to share their pictures with cumbersome
email attachments and time consuming uploads to web sites. The
innovative Qurio Instant Photo Server allows you to instantly share
thousands of full resolution pictures over the Internet, directly from
your own PC. And, since your pictures stay right on your own hard
drive, you remain in complete control of your personal pictures.
[PRWEB Sep 9, 2004]
"Statscout - Highly Scalable Network
Monitoring Software - FREE Evaluation on
your network"
"Statscout - Highly Scalable Network
Monitoring Software - FREE Evaluation on
your network"
05/10/2004 10:08 AMNetwork Protocols Handbook For Cisco
CCNA, CCIE, CCNP, and MCSE, Network+ and
Security+
Network Protocols Handbook For Cisco
CCNA, CCIE, CCNP, and MCSE, Network+ and
Security+
02/01/2005 10:07 PMThe newly released "Network Protocols Handbook" by Javvin is now
distributed by Ingram Books. This book is an excellent reference for
Internet programmers, network pros and for people who are taking
networking technology courses or trying to pass networking related
certifications such as Cisco certification CCNA, CCIE, CCNP, Microsoft
Certification MCSE, CompTIA certification Network+ and Security+.
[PRWEB Jan 26, 2005]
HaiTel Expands Wireless Network in Haiti
with Nortel Technology; Country's First
3G Network Expected to Boost
HaiTel Expands Wireless Network in Haiti
with Nortel Technology; Country's First
3G Network Expected to Boost
04/12/2005 01:51 PMBusiness Wire UK Apr 12 2005 3:30PM GMT
Grok Description matches for Finland OKs 3G Network Sharing
GrokA matches for Finland OKs 3G Network Sharing
Finland OKs 3G Network Sharing
