Bill Wishon's News and Views

You are Browsing the March 2008 Archive:

Comcast and BitTorrent: Why You Can’t Negotiate with a Protocol

The big tech policy news yesterday was Comcast’s announcement that it will stop impeding BitTorrent traffic, but instead will respond to network congestion by slowing traffic from the highest-volume users, regardless of what those users are doing. C…


Akamai Gets SaaSy

Akamai claims it has seen a tenfold increase in software-as-a-service transactions over the past two years


War of the Worlds

There is a technology war coming. Actually it is already here but most of us haven’t yet notice. It is a war not about technology but because of technology, a war over how we as a culture embrace technology. It is a war that threatens venerable institutions and, to a certain extent, threatens what many [...]


The 80/20 Business rule…..heck Life

Gary Vaynerchuk talks about a secret that he thinks is at the core of much of his success.

Links mentioned in todays 120.

Kathy Sierra on Wikipedia
horse.pig.cow


Sequoia’s Explanation, and Why It’s Not the Whole Story

I wrote yesterday about discrepancies in the results reported by Sequoia AVC Advantage voting machines in New Jersey.
Sequoia issued a memo giving their explanation for what might have happened. Here’s the relevant part:

During a primary election, …


Evidence of New Jersey Election Discrepancies

Press reports on the recent New Jersey voting discrepancies have been a bit vague about the exact nature of the evidence that showed up on election day. What has the county clerks, and many citizens, so concerned? Today I want to show you some of the…


Interesting Email from Sequoia

A copy of an email I received has been passed around on various mailing lists. Several people, including reporters, have asked me to confirm its authenticity. Since everyone seems to have read it already, I might as well publish it here. Yes, it is…


« Previous Entries