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Counterstrike on Spam

September 2, 2003

Paul Gra­ham high­lighted an inter­est­ing con­cept in fight­ing off spam­mers. The basic idea is to make anti-spam tools do a counter strike in sites pro­moted by spam­mers. The basic idea is that a black­list would be cre­ated to include repeat offend­ers. When a spam is seen, the server would check the black­list to see if the site is […]

Incrementalism

July 29, 2003

News.com reports that Bill Gates believes the promises of the dot­com era will be ful­filled. I tend to agree with the con­cept on its face. Wit­ness, for exam­ple, the recent devel­op­ment in the online gro­cery busi­ness. While Web­Van blew up in a multi-billion-dollar dis­as­ter, the mar­ket is now grow­ing, with tra­di­tional gro­cery chains adding this new feature […]

Sony to Introduce Media-centric Gaming Box

May 28, 2003

EE Times and IGN report on the intro­duc­tion of a new gam­ing con­sole by Sony. Not, it’s not the much vaunted PS3, which is still sup­pos­edly on track for 2005 but some­thing much more inter­est­ing (at least to me): a PS2 gam­ing box that also includes a pro­gres­sive DVD player and recorder, a 120Gb Hard Drive, TV tuner, an […]

Verizon and Wi-Fi

May 15, 2003

There’s been much dis­cus­sion over the past year related to the via­bil­ity of new wire­less oper­a­tors try­ing to imple­ment national net­works for Wi-Fi. The issue is one of cost and return on invest­ment. As we learned dur­ing the dot­com boom, it is easy to build new infra­struc­tures but it is much harder to build new […]

Lack of synergy

February 12, 2003

Accord­ing to an arti­cle in the Wash­ing­ton Post, AOL is loos­ing mar­ket share to Road-Runner. The inter­est­ing thing is that both com­pa­nies are owned by AOL-Time-Warner but are not play­ing together. This rep­re­sents a huge prob­lem for the com­pany as it is the most vis­i­ble area of poten­tial syn­ergy between AOL and Time-Warner. Here’s a crazy thought, […]

Internet in France 2002: An overview

August 19, 2002

Last week, I was in France for a short vaca­tion. Dur­ing that time, I got a chance to talk to peo­ple locally and get a bet­ter idea as to what was going on within the Inter­net mar­ket in France. Here are a few obser­va­tions based on my under­stand­ing of what is going on. Strong Growth France had been a leader in terms of […]

The Convergence Game

November 18, 2001

This week, Microsoft launched the Xbox, a new gam­ing sys­tem that takes the Red­mond giant into another mar­ket. Today, Nin­tendo is unveil­ing the Game­Cube, their new entry in a bat­tle they have fought with Sony for many years. With these new gam­ing sta­tions enter­ing the mar­ket, a new war is start­ing and in the end, it is a war […]

Suggestions for RSS .92 spec

October 12, 2000

I’d like to sug­gest a few optional addi­tions to the spec­i­fi­ca­tion. Here are some ideas I’d like to throw around for dis­cus­sion: At the item level : This would allow us to spec­ify a par­tic­u­lar date for an item. I think it would be nice for those of us who have sev­eral days’ worth of con­tent in their RDF […]