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This Is What The Internet Looks Like
PEER 1, an IT hosting provider, has produced a visual interpretation of the Internet. It identifies 19,869 autonomous system nodes with 44,344 connections. The sizing and layout of the autonomous systems are based on their eigenvector centrality, which is a measure of how central to the network each autonomous system is: an autonomous system is ...
Oodle Attack On Craigslist Falls Flat
Oodle, a classified ads site, recently financed a report that shows the extent of crime associated with Craigslist: “Crime and Craigslist: A sad tale of murders and more.” Here is an extract: The “Craigslist killer.” The “Craigslist serial killer.” The diamond-ring killing in Edgewood, Wash. Those are a few of the 20 slayings – 12 ...
Repost.us: Syndicate Content And Get Paid
Repost.Us launched today providing an easy way for companies to syndicate content and be paid according to use. Publishers can register their content and how much they charge for syndication, other publishers can then automatically negotiate and complete the legal documents that would allow them to republish articles. Payment is based on the number of ...
Ted Nelson: Reinventing Syndication
Ted Nelson is a computer pioneer and industry veteran. His work in the early 1960s led to hypertext — the ubiquitous technology that literally links all online documents. Mr Nelson is also the author of one of my favorite quotes: “As fish live in water we live in media.” Back in the early 1960s, Mr ...
Pearson CEO Threatens Split With Apple Over Customer Data
The Guardian reports that Marjorie Scardino, the CEO of Pearson, a large publishing group that owns the Financial Times and Penguin books, is unhappy with the terms Apple has set for publishers on the iPad. The sticking point is getting access to customer data, which is not possible through Apple’ AppStore. Speaking on an analyst ...
Launch Startup Conference Gets Good Reports
The Launch conference, Jason Calacanis’s response to the Techcrunch Disrupt conference, turned out well despite all the rain and a boycott by TechCrunch publisher Mike Arrington. I caught part of it and I was impressed by the companies I saw and the judging panel. I spoke to many that were there for all of the ...
The Rise of Curation is not About Broken Search
Much has been written about how search is broken and this is why curation — in its many forms — is on the rise (Pearltrees is a client). Paul Kedrosky writing on Infectious Greed: Curation is the New Search is the New Curation What has happened is that Google’s ranking algorithm, like any trading algorithm, ...
Intel Debuts High Speed Multi-Purpose Connection Technology
Intel today unveiled its “Thunderbolt” technology which uses an inexpensive cable to provide up to 40 gigabits of bi-directional data transfer. It can be used for connecting displays, storage, and anything else. It is compatible with USB and PCI Express. Thunderbolt provides workstation I/O performance, which means users can transfer huge image and video files ...
IPOs And The Pre-IPO Valuations Bubble
Therese Poletti, over at MarketWatch reports that this year’s Tech IPOs have done well: Tech IPOs gaining some momentum Therese Poletti’s Tech Tales – MarketWatch Already this year, there have been seven tech IPOs, which have raised $700 million in total, with an average return of 26.5%, according to Renaissance Capital, an IPO research firm ...
Is TechCrunch Boycotting Launch Conference And Anyone Connected?
Jason Calacanis introduces the new Launch Conference in San Francisco this week. It’s focused on startups, similar to the TechCrunch Disrupt conference. John Hudson and Uri Freidman reporting on The Atlantic Wire: It’s War of the Silicon Valley Boosters Calacanis refused to comment on whether he had heard reports of Arrington and TechCrunch trying to ...