Picking Sides with Network Neutrality
As the FCC announces its support for Network Neutrality the arguments against it heat up. At root is whether you think maintaining the status quo implies undo governmental intervention.
Media. Communication. Protest.
Over the past decade groups around the world have utilized Internet communication technologies during crisis to broadcast their message to local and global communities. We take three case studies to see how this has been done. In the process we see that over the years, the ability to harness Internet communications is moving from organizations to anyone with actual Internet access.
What’s Up Little Buddy: Going Alpha With BuddyPress
Trying to decide on an Open Source Platform that provides robust blogging and social networking capabilities? So were we.
CDN Research Data: Market Sizing and Pricing Trends
Dan Rayburn, Executive Vice President, StreamingMedia.com, delivers his semi-annual state of the union on the Content Delivery Network industry. What are CDN’s charging? What kind of terms are they forcing customers to sign? Who can help their customers scale globally? Where are we with live and on-demand HD streaming?
Mobile Sense of Discovery
How are mobile social apps and sites impacting the discovery of new talent, content (including music and videos that are either user-generated or professionally produced) and places (such as restaurants and shops)? How can viral marketing efforts reach users via mobile devices? What mobile recommendation sites and apps are out there to increase discovery potential?
Mobile App Stores: The Developers’ Perspectives
Several mobile carriers, device manufacturers and mobile service providers—including Palm, RIM, Nokia, Google, Samsung and Microsoft—recently unveiled an app store or announced plans for one. Hear the developers’ perspectives on this new flood of app stores.
Next Generation P2P - Music, TV and Film
While the debate over legal issues in music and movie distribution of content continues, the P2P and distributed computing industry is making strides in taking its technologies into the mainstream. Many evolving solutions are on the way from paid-for-pass-along along with various DRM solutions and advertiser based options.
Joe Ambeault - Verizon
Verizon is not commonly associated with terms like innovation, beta releases and rapid, iterative development cycles. How does a nimble start-up, mandated with developing products and services that are key to Verizon’s long term survival, survive and thrive within a large corporate dinosaur?
Kaiser Permanente Shrinks Carbon Footprint
Kaiser Permanente is the largest real estate holder in California, managing a real estate portfolio of over 1,000 buildings.
Installing Mysql Gem on Mac OSX 10.5
I’m playing with Mephisto tonight and I am making the trek deeper into Rails 2.2.2. For those of you who have been living in the land of 2.0.2 and 2.1, you probably haven’t run into the installation of the MySQL gem.
