Tag: Internet
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GigaOM: Indian Villages, Internet and Crazy Headlines
This is a great post on GigaOM by their newest blogger, Shailaja Neelakantan. She writes about a recent Reuters story. The story talks about an Indian village, Hansdehar, that created a website, but isn’t connected to the Internet in anyway. Great post … GigaOM » Blog Archive » Indian Villages, Internet and Crazy Headlines Don’t…
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Scam the Scammers
For everyone who has ever received an email from someone in Africa asking for X thousands of dollars for whatever reason, you MUST read this! AWESOME!! TITLE: The Incredible Shrinking Artwork SCAMMER NAME: John Boko SCAMMER LOCATION: Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire SCAMBAITER: Shiver Metimbers A slightly different twist on my now familiar artwork anti-scam. I manage…
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Domain Name Trivia
Via Emergic: July 19, 2006 Archives, the Wall Street Journal reports analysis done by Dennis Forbes around Internet domain names. All of the 1,000 most common English words have been snatched up. The word “a” appears more than any other, though most of the time, of course, it’s just a letter in a longer word.…
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Telcos Rule the Internet
The U.S. Sentate panel has sided with the telcos in allowing them to create a two-tier Internet. Get ready to pay more for your Internet services and if you’re looking to start a new Internet company, you’ll have to factor in the toll to the carriers to get your content to the public at reasonable…
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What is Net Neutrality About?
Watch this short video presentation that tries to explain exactly how losing net neutrality will affect all of us. technorati tags:netneutrality, Net Neutrality, Internet Blogged with Flock