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 forget to check out her inaugural post, Inside India’s VC Boom.
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TITLE: The Incredible Shrinking Artwork
SCAMMER NAME: John Boko
SCAMMER LOCATION: Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire
SCAMBAITER: Shiver MetimbersA slightly different twist on my now familiar artwork anti-scam. I manage to secure two pieces of artwork, but unfortunately due to the temperature and humidity fluctuations between here and West Africa, as well as rogue rodents, there are problems.
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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. The least-used common word is “consonant,” Mr. Forbes says, which is in just 42 domains, including “consonantpain.com,” which isn’t a misspelling but a word game.
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Half of all domains are between nine and 15 characters long; the average length is 13. A domain can have, at most, 63 characters, and there are 550 such domains. In fact, some people have made a haiku-like art out of 63-character domain names.
Read the full article onThe Wall Street Journal Online.
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WASHINGTON–A U.S. Senate panel narrowly rejected strict Net neutrality rules on Wednesday, dealing a grave setback to companies like eBay, Google and Amazon.com that had made enacting them a top political priority this year.
Senate deals blow to Net neutrality | CNET News.com
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Watch this short video presentation that tries to explain exactly how losing net neutrality will affect all of us.
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