Billions Connected

Thoughts on a ridiculously connected world

Lifting the Fog Around the Stupid Network – iPlane

“Deliver the Bits, Stupid.” – David Isenberg – Rise of the Stupid Network Stupidity is a virtue – for networks. But not all networks should be stupid – only the underlying IP network our applications are built on. Case in point: the overlay networks implemented by today’s new breed of distributed applications are getting smarter [...]

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Tue, March 20 2007 » Imported, Uncategorized » No Comments

Freebase – The Best Thing to Happen to the Creative Commons since Lawrence Lessig?

For those who don’t know what Freebase is yet, read Tim O’Reilly’s post on the topic first, then come back here. Now, for the rest of you compulsive blog readers – consider Freebase vs. Google. Google organizes information by creating indexes of that information – using the fair use exception to create those indexes. Freebase [...]

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Fri, March 9 2007 » Imported, Uncategorized » No Comments