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25 Aug 2001 'Parasitic grid' wireless movement may threaten telecom profits What if you combine 802.11b with the old ideas in the Fido network. Fido was a BBS system that used free local calls to build a daisy chain of replicated nodes across the USA and beyond. Could you build a WAN from 20 mile 802.11b hops? How big could this get?
At one end of the spectrum we have a hoard of programmers hacking away, linking Blogger, Jabber, WAP, Manila and anything else they can think of into a web of intersections. These are all web services and use an RPC protocol. It was launched into action when Blogger did an API in XML-RPC
At the other end of the spectrum we have the B2B folks trying to track what on earth MS and IBM are up to. This attracted 300 people to an almost ad-hoc meeting this week in SF. Report from 'The State of Web Services' event Are these two things related? Or will the two groups just pass each other like ships in the night? I've been convinced since the end of last year that web services and RPC via XML is incredibly important. I just wish everyone would stop being so hung up on whether Passport is going to take over the web and get back to trying to understand what an XML RPC standard means and what we can do with it. [ 25-Aug-01 8:35pm ] [ 25-Aug-01 7:21am ] 24 Aug 2001 The Infinite Matrix | Bruce Sterling | Schism Matrix All your favourite Cyberpunk authors in one weblog/magazine.
[ 24-Aug-01 8:41pm ] 3D Pong in shockwave. Fun but too fast. (Wimp)
[ 24-Aug-01 4:14pm ] Forbes.com: God, Stephen Wolfram, and Everything Else A news science of everything. It would be easy to chuck in some snappy ironic comment about Hubris, but the guy does seem to be a certified genius.I just hope there's a 42, 23 or 5 in there somewhere.
[ 24-Aug-01 2:57pm ] [ 24-Aug-01 8:45am ] kuro5hin.org || The Clockwork Internet : Digital rights management is more or less doomed because of the confluence of two immutable laws, neither of which has anything to do with the structure of the internet. Those laws, in lay terms, are as follows.
To which I'd add "The Law is an ass". [ 24-Aug-01 8:35am ] 23 Aug 2001 Web Services Architect : Articles : Making Money out of Selling Web Services - Part I : Making Money out of Selling Web Services Show me the business model!
[ 23-Aug-01 9:14pm ] [ 23-Aug-01 3:31pm ] Internet Marketing E-mail Tip of the Week : Blogging -- Funny Name, Great for Online Marketing
[ 23-Aug-01 3:28pm ] The Register : Keyboards spread disease Yes folks, the E coli in your keyboard might come from the temp who used it yesterday. Now flick through Yellow Pages and look for Keyboard Sanitization Services. You know it makes sense.
[ 23-Aug-01 3:23pm ] Online Bank sticks adverts on banana peel? The Register : This fruit is, apparently "the ideal advertising medium because people throw away the peel, so the label is not irritating.. but it's there in front of you," And did you know that Germany is the highest consumer of bananas per capita of any country? Or that Quatemala is effectively owned by United Fruit.
[ 23-Aug-01 2:45pm ] Think you could do a better job of running Palm? PDA Sim let's you try. Or perhaps you just need this T Shirt.
22 Aug 2001 What is SeattleWireless ? And could it work elsewhere?
[ 22-Aug-01 5:56pm ] ZDNet |UK| - News - Story - First 802.11a wireless chipsets due in weeks : Keep an eye on this one. It's going to be huge.
[ 22-Aug-01 4:50pm ] OK. Who's going to sponsor me to go to the O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer and Web Services Conference Washington, D.C. -- September 18-21, 2001 : I'm really cheap and I promise to write a report with a management summary afterwards...
[ 22-Aug-01 4:43pm ] Rabbits! : I put little things on his head, that I can take pictures of his headperformance. It is a result of intimate relationship of me and Oolong, and alone headperformance is not a main theme of my site.
[ 22-Aug-01 2:33pm ] The Times : THOUSANDS more closed circuit television cameras are to be installed in public places, it was announced yesterday. The Government is spending £79 million on 250 schemes in England and Wales in the battle against crime. More than one million cameras are already trained on street crime hot spots. Research shows that CCTV coverage can reduce illegal activity by up to 60 per cent.
Smile you're on TV. And all this while C4 is showing a series on the History of Surveillance. Last week's program reached the conclusion that CCTV doesn't reduce crime it just shifts it to other locations. Far more important are the commercial aspects of behavioural control aided by highly visible video monitoring. eg please move along, you're not buying anything.. Now if they turned all these into webcams, that would be something. Why should the forces of Awe and Boredom be the only group to be able to see what's going on? There's an idea that turns up every so often in Sci-Fi which is the "God's Eye". This is a location or view point from which you can see everything. I think there's a common mental misconception that this is real. That there's a place I can stand where everything becomes visible. This is easy in our heads, but of course is impossible in reality. I wonder if there's an element in the increase in surveillance that comes from trying to reach this ideal. eg "If we just open more letters, tap more phones, install more CCTV, we'll be able to know what's *really* going on." [ 22-Aug-01 2:12pm ] What is Pandromeda and Mojoworld
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