Results for tag: networking

Why build the mesh when you can add a layer on top of an existing one?SocialGriddefines itself as a social networking community/online dating service that uses Google to hook people up. You place a unique identification string on your personal page/weblog and others find you through search codes based on common interests.

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Having just spent an hour cleaning my RSS subscriptions and building an assortment ofsmart listsin order to bring my feed reading habits back into the realm of the practical, I stumbled upon an accurate description of the disease I was attempting to curb:Feed Overload Syndrome.

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Amazon hasinvested in Robot Co-op, makers of the43 Things project. If Amazon is interested, can a social-network-enabled online shopping experience be far behind? Robot Co-op also useRuby on Railsfor their web development, a nice push further into legitimacy for this excellent framework in a world dominated by masochistic Java “web” developers in their ivory towers/frameworks who seem to consider touching html code as lowering themselves to the level of primates, thus notgettingthe web at all (yes, there are exceptions, but they’re few and far between).

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Yet more arguments for symmetric network connections at the edges: Vint Cerf mentions the concept of P2P was part of the original design of the internet protocol. And nowadays we’re pushing just as much data as we’re pulling, so why are residential broadband connections so download-heavy?

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You can’t see the gross stuff on the airport floor, but you wouldn’t walk there barefoot.

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