In short, there is no chance that a top-level application containing an international organization’s name or acronym is going to make it through the application process. Knowing that, someone would have to be extremely foolish to attempt to apply when it can only cost them tens of thousands of dollars for no gain.
French President Nicholas Sarkozy is a man who has championed some of the most aggressive anti-piracy legislation in Europe. But today it’s revealed that the occupants of his very own office and home are responsible for a nice selection of pirate downloads using BitTorrent. Three strikes? Those with access to the Presidential Palace’s IP addresses have already doubled that quota.
It???s easy to be famous.
It???s hard to have fans.
The Internet video sale only worked because Louie had fans. First and foremost who were aware of what he was doing. We???re all on information overload. You can put out the press release, the paper can even print it, that does not mean the target audience sees it. You???ve got to have people who follow you, you???ve got to earn their trust to the point they???re paying attention to you on a regular basis. You don???t do this by yelling at them, but by creating work they value.
You can do lot of interesting stuff with Google Talk like get alert notifications, save bookmarks to delicious, manage web calendars, set reminders, write blogs, and so much more.
Such features can be easily integrated into Google Talk through ‘bots’ which, in simple English, are like virtual friends who are online 24×7 and will always respond with a smile to your questions or requests.
Is there an RSS bot for Google+?
At the same time as mail volume is decreasing, people still want the ability to receive mail at any time and at any address they choose. As a result, the number of individual delivery points increased by 735,779. That is to say, the costs of maintaining the ability to distribute mail are going up, even though the volume of mail (i.e. revenue) is declining. The USPS has massive fixed-infrastructure costs built into its core as a national service committed to serving everyone.
That’s why the decline in mail volume, spurred by the availability of that other point-to-point communications network, the Internet, is an existential crisis. Maybe one of the two big pieces of legislation ham-tying the USPS — the 1970 Postal Service Reorganization Act and the Postal Act of 2006 — will get changed and the immediate crisis for the USPS will abate. But in the long term, the Postal Service has got to deal with its revenues and its costs running in the opposite directions.
The other packet mode end to end network. Postal chess anyone?
Analysis of the costs and benefits of IP protection shows there is a tendency toward overprotection of IP in all our societies, particularly in the areas of copyright and patents.
The analysis also shows the optimal rate of protection differs between countries and that it can differ across time as countries move through different stages of economic development.
The problems of overprotection are particularly acute for technology importing countries, including developing countries.
The analysis shows that for these countries, IP rights that are too strong will detract from innovation rather than promote it.
It’s not a question of protection, it’s how long and how broad that protection should be.
The latest example is the recent debate around usage-based billing. Klinker doesn???t believe it would do anything to alleviate network congestion, and he wishes ISPs would be a little more innovative. ??? ???You should really do congestion-based billing,??? he suggested.???
Usage caps are not a means of managing network capex and opex, but are a pricing ruse to extract revenue and exclude competing services.
Until these factors are recognised, nothing will encourage ISPs to shift from their current local maxima.
I think that with Twine we hit upon a previously unaddressed need for broadly accessible bits of technology that end users can use to solve problems that they themselves care about. The last two decades have shown that connecting virtually anything to a network (of people or things) greatly magnifies its relevance. We see Twine as the first time that essentially anyone can do that for themselves.
Hamish MacEwan 
