Okay, not really everything, but it’s a reasonable start.
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Everything you ever wanted to know about Internet Cookies but didn’t know how to ask
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/08gmcVebJDA/
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Jane McGonigal: Gaming to Solve Real World Problems
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/yJMLDL8hxY4/
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Maybe I should just stick to my knitting
If a couple hundred Digg votes on Open Wi-Fi 'Outlawed' in Digital Economy Bill mean anything.
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How To: Sync an iPhone with Multiple Computers
http://lifehacker.com/5064933/sync-an-iphone-with-multiple-computers
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Google Fiberhood
Welcome to the Google | Fiberhood Network.
ROTFLMAO. Well, at least we had the privilege of Sergey personally dissing us back when we originally built out this concept, long before Google was THE Google. So, how best to respond, when the realization of the dream you evangelized and built over a decade's sustained effort, against all odds, finally becomes real?
Maybe I should stand outside the GooglePlex on the corner of Landings Drive with a cardboard sign around my neck that reads: Will (Continue To) Work for Ubiquitous Massive Symmetric Bandwidth for All. I've been doing that in one form or another since 1991 anyway, no reason to stop now, I suppose. Or maybe just, "Okay, Sergey, you were right, the timing was wrong (well, it wasn't wrong, Sand Hill got it wrong, but still), that was no reason to single you out. I could never apologize enough."
In my wildest dreams, maybe The Google could finally bring me in house, now that I'm way better house trained than I was back then. I was so driven. So focused. So lost in the part. So probably not; but hey, if you don't ask Eywa, how can you ever know?
Or maybe it's time to come to terms with being the Ted Nelson of bandwidth. I've done all the damage I can; now, only the community can determine my ultimate fate. At least I'm finally at a point where I'm totally okay with that, regardless. Truth be told, in the end, that's the most important aftermath of failing forward.
Parenthetically, I suppose it's one measure of our effectiveness at disrupting the status quo from 1999 to 2002 to observe the domain name defacement that someone actually took the time and money to conduct with the domain long after we let it go. Wow.
Now where did I see that Craigslist posting from Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf for an FTTH Ethernet Everywhere Bandwidth Evangelist / Advisor / Ambassador, Sidekick, and General Whipping Boy again? I know the bookmark is here somewhere. ;-)
P.S. For real wayback history buffs, nineteen years ago I submitted the first business plan to build neighborhood fiber optic LAN's -- initially to connect homes and schools for education (hence, EdCom International 1994 | 1997 ) -- using an obscure, native internet technology called Ethernet. I was promptly referred to psychological counseling for proposing such a clearly unhinged plan and asked if I'd like a small business loan to build a BBS. Um, no. Apparently you didn't hear what I was saying. This isn't an optional, proposed future. This is the future we are building.
Instead, I focused intensely for ten years to bring just one thing forward from the realm of the possible to IRL; to build the world's first field operational, fiber optic ETTH network. By the time we got it done, there was even this new whizbang radio standard called 802.11 that would extend the edges of ETTH into thin air. Ethernet Everywhere and beyond was not only possible, we could have it all done by 2008. Future: built. Sort of.
Yet, even by the end of the 1990's, none of the Silicon Valley royalty would approve of the venture. Even the envisioneers of Coyote Hill Road at Pake Auditorium laughed me out the door with jeers of "56K is more than sufficient for residential users into the most distant foreseeable future." Apparently, I was seeing a different future; the one I'd written about at Stanford in 1997; namely, Information Superdriveway: Social Informatics of Deploying Residential Community Fiber Optic Computer Networks; the bandwidth-defined future we're living in, today.
Honestly, at this point I couldn't be more thrilled about the whole meandering road. So let's redouble our efforts and git 'er done. Feel free to Buzz me, @Sergey Brinn, if you agree that we may finally have all the pieces in place to pick up right up where we left off our last conversation. Onward!
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In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits | Magazine
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/01/ff_newrevolution/all/1
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Kansas State University
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Patent spelunking for clues to Apple iSlate iTablet iPad that iWant
"The earlier tablets were fun, but the novelty wore off too quickly Most of them were simply laptops that allowed you to twist the screen 180 degrees and fold it over the keyboard, making them heavy. And the stylus-centric touchscreen interaction just wasn't compelling enough. But a rash of patents filed by Apple suggest that going the next step beyond the iPhone's once-revolutionary touch interface may just be part of the plan for any tablet it launches."
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Why I Believe Printers Were Sent From Hell To Make Us Miserable - The Oatmeal
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/printers
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Outsourcing Personal Memory: The Benefits and Challenges of Capturing Yourself Digitally
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/U6ma-YPF3Eo/
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iCANN on Internationalized Domain Names
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/0JWUKPBeasY/
Interesting that at nearly the same time as this iCANN decision, Aunt Rosie the Wave Translation Robot may remove language barriers, further enabling all people everywhere to use their own native languages, yet communicate across all language divides.
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The Headless Terminators are Here
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/r8ZlQnk1tHQ/
They’re he-errrrre …
SOURCE: Technology Review
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The Headless Terminators Are Here
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/rccgo7A6fsw/
They’re he-errrrre …
SOURCE: Technology Review
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This *is* the droid you’re looking for
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/dHWNK2kNzrA/
Surely iDon’t have all the answers, but if the battery life can last through a full average day’s use, Motorola & Verizon may have the first real iPhone competitor.
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The Original IBM ThinkPad
http://www.acontinuouslean.com/2009/10/01/the-original-ibm-thinkpad/
This is the notepad (the pencil and paper kind) that in the late 80s / early 90s inspired an IBM researcher to name the company’s new mobile computer the ThinkPad. To me, the IBM ThinkPad was the classic laptop computer to have. At least that was the case until I went full time Apple and the Chinese got a hold of the brand. At any rate, it is interesting to see the little promotional give-away that inspired a massive brand.
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ISS Photosynth
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Black&Decker;18 Volt 12″ Cordless GRASSHOG Trimmer/Edger FAIL
http://michael.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/packets/?p=993
Model#NST2018: 9hrs to charge the battery, 20mins to useless. That’s a total FAIL for anything more than the lightest condo patio use; and it seemed so promising. sigh I should have picked up the clue when the web site said “Extra Run-time”rather than providing an actual Estimated Useful Time Per Charge. Happy to hear back from BDK and cop to Stupid Customer Error, if they care to follow up and demonstrate something done wrong on this end; however, I did charge the unit precisely per the manual’s instructions.
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Multimedia 802.11n (MediaFlex 7000 Series) | Ruckus Wireless
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/n_fj6RnTciQ/
How to do not just EthernetTV, but HD EthernetTV Everywhere: The MediaFlex 7000 series is the first carrier-class 802.11n multimedia system designed to reliably distribute High Definition (HD) IP-based video (IPTV) over Wi-Fi. A complete solution for video-grade wireless networking, the MediaFlex system consists of the Ruckus MediaFlex 7811 multimedia access point (AP) and the Ruckus MediaFlex 7111 multimedia Wi-Fi adapter. With these two fully-loaded products, consumers can now enjoy multimedia content anywhere in their homes, all without wires.
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THE IMMORTALISTS - a short film by Jason Silva
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlOFBqDVfhE&feature=youtube_gdata
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