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March 27, 2001

DSL’s single point of falure

more fallout from Northpoint’s bankruptcy … “Some of Northpoint’s larger ISP customers, like Telocity Inc., are in the process of switching to other wholesale carriers. But the uncertainty is leading some ISPs with smaller DSL operations to get out of the business.”

From: Quicken.com NewsCenter

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March 27, 2001

Freedom Controller

I’m not sure what this is, but aparently Adam Curry is trying to create his own version of MTV with the Personal Television Transceiver: The FreedomController

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March 27, 2001

Mirror Worlds Technologies Inc

“Finding and organizing information is the No. 1 problem in technology”

MWT’s mission: “to help people gain control of their digital data through software that lets them find their files more easily.”

Their product, Scopeware, is basically a P2P client, like gnutella, but designed for corporate use.

They have an interesting solution to the document management issue, because documents are stored on employees’ hard drives, but it doesn’t help document collaboration.

Here’s the Business Week article about them. (thanks kim)

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March 26, 2001

Circumvent the telcos!

Build a community wireless network! A mention of it on GeekNews led me to some interesting “open source-ish” projects where by groups of people are connecting their SoHo WANs together to create P2P wireless backbones. Sweet!

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March 23, 2001

AT&T Acquires Assets of NorthPoint Communications

eek … time to find a new DSL provider: AT&T Acquires Assets of NorthPoint Communications

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March 23, 2001

Study tracks Net’s social implications

A three-year study, conducted by Pew Internet and American Life Project, has some interesting results … like, “People worry about online privacy but easily give it away” and “57 percent of the people still without Internet access have no intention of getting it” … change is hard :-)

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March 21, 2001

Eco-Challenge 2k airs tonight at 10PM ET/PT

The CBS show 48 Hours “treks along with the Eco-Challenge Sabah 2000 competitors every step of the 320-mile course through the jungle of Borneo, Malaysia.” See the previews here
[thanks Shue for the note!]

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March 21, 2001

manage your own metadata

this sounds like a job for consentcache …

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March 21, 2001

Fixed Wireless

wow! this market is hugh! keep your eyes on EvolvingEdge

“Analysts see revenue potential in the connectivity. The Strategis Group estimates that revenue from broadband fixed wireless will reach $6.4 billion in 2004; others project about $5 billion that year.” from: Fixed Wireless Increases Broadband Access

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March 20, 2001

FuckedCompany Cashes In

“Philip Kaplan, the wizard behind the curtain of FuckedCompany.com, has decided to monetize his online deadpool of failed dot-coms by charging for subscriptions to “premium features” of the site.”

From: Business 2.0

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