Monthly Archives: November 2007
Verizon set to open their wireless network in 2008.
Things just got really interesting in the mobile / wireless world. Verizon announced that they will over two categories of service by the end of 2008. One will continue to be its bundled handset service, and the other will be … Continue reading
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Controlling the Internet
Images source: Wikimedia Commons, Matt Brim The October issue of Discovery magazine has an article that piqued my interest, entitled, “This Man Wants to Control the Internet. And you should let him.” The man is Caltech professor, John Doyle, an … Continue reading
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My network is worth $1,195,537
I guess that is something to be thankful for the day before Thanksgiving. Gigaom is linking to an Xing site, which calculates the value of your network. Mine is over a million dollars. You enter in some demographic information and … Continue reading
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Managing social networks
I attended a very good discussion at MobileCamp on Mobile Social Networks, which was run by Keith Erskine of padpaw. We ended up talking a lot about facebook, which seemed to be on a lot of people’s mind. When talking … Continue reading
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Is Metcalfe’s Law wrong?
Image source: IEEE Noah Brier posted an interesting link recently to an article claiming that Metcalfe’s Law, which famously has been paraphrased to be the value of a network exponentially quadratically grows with each additional node, is wrong. This is … Continue reading
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Graphing hacks and innovation
The Apple developer’s kit for the iPhone and the Google phone is getting a lot discussion in the press. They are just two examples of that “innovation” has been getting attention recently. Despite all the discussion on innovation, I don’t … Continue reading
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An empty BKK airport and new network points.
Here is a photo I took earlier this year at the then brand new Bangkok International Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK). I was thinking about the image today, while doing some reading on social network theory. Airports are transportation hubs and feel … Continue reading
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