Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Hughes Net: Satellite Internet



HughesNet Internet is the leading satellite internet service provider. It delivers high speed broadband across America.

The importance of broadband in this day and age can not be exaggerated. Broadband is as basic as electricity today, for work, for pleasure, for life activities. With the satellite option, the rural urban divide goes out the window. Hughes Net Internet is available anywhere in the continental US. The price is affordable.

Dial up just does not cut it these days. If you don't have broadband speed, you are missing out. On productivity, on pleasure. You need Hughes Internet. Satellite Internet fills in where cable internet is not an option.

HughesNet gives you broadband, and it comes with all the basic services like virus and spam protection, your own email address, a customized homepage.

Hughes Net satellite takes you online when others will not. Getting online knows no geographic boundaries.

"HughesNet uses the latest in satellite Internet technology to deliver an exceptionally fast broadband connection. Typical dial-up connections download at 53 Kbps. A satellite Internet connection from HughesNet downloads at 1.0 to 5.0 Mbps - that's 50x faster than dial-up!"

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July 2009 NY Tech MeetUp


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I had not been to one of these in a few months. I was glad to show up. It happens on the first Tuesday of each month. My favorite part was mingling with the presenters in the same venue, right off the stage. The after party was a downer.

The Exit Strategy NYC gal and the Designer Pages guy were kind of cool to talk to. My favorite part was the Iranian's guest presentation on Iran. I have been wanting to get actively involved in that revolution as a netizen.

Looking forward to showing up for the next one.

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Bing ---> Chrome OS ---> Office 2010

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Google Chrome Operating System: Pinging Bing
Google took over with Search. Microsoft responded with Bing. Google countered with the Chrome Operating System. Microsoft answered with Office 2010. It is called Capitalism 101.

Bing

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Bing Delivers Credibility to Microsoft New York Times
Bing claims 8 percent rise in users during June CNET News
Bing manages to hold onto its initial explosion of growth DVICE
Op-Ed Contributor Chrome vs. Bing vs. You and Me New York Times
Google vs. Microsoft: What You Need to Know Wired News
Bing, Vimeo, Goop, Flickr, Ning, Orkut and Yahoo! Chicago Tribune
Google Chrome vs. Microsoft Bing vs. the user Product Reviews
Report: Microsoft shopping Razorfish to ad agencies CNET News
Bing Comes To Hotmail Washington Post
Bing booms but far behind Google, Yahoo Bizjournals.com
Bing vs. Google: Consumers Can't Tell a Difference CNNMoney.com
Microsoft takes on Google as Office moves to Web Reuters
Microsoft Office takes to the web BBC News
Microsoft Responds To Google With Free Online Office Programs RedOrbit
Microsoft to release online office software NEWS.com.au
Bing Builds an Underwhelming Twitter Search PC World
Bing Keeps Its Foot On The Gas, Adds Tweets To Results Washington Post
Bing Now Shows Some Twitter Updates New York Times

Chrome OS

Google Chrome OS: Still Early On The Hype Curve ChannelWeb
Is Chrome OS a "Disruptive Innovation?" Huffington Post
Chrome OS Harkens to the Days of the Driveless Desktop PC World
Chrome OS proves Google can hype, but can it win? CNET News
The history and future of Chrome OS ZDNet
Dell May Test Google's Chrome OS PC World
The Google OS surfaced in March--or did it? CNET News
Google's Chrome OS: Reaching for the Cloud New York Times
Google's Chrome OS could make cloud computing 'real' EDL Consulting
Google's Chrome OS - Reaching for the Cloud Business Exchange
Internet users heavily into cloud computing, most unknowingly Los Angeles Times
Google Chrome OS Is a Direct Challenge to Microsoft in the Netbook ... eWeek
Big Winner in Office Web App Announcement: Google Chrome OS? jkOnTheRun
Online Microsoft Office Apps Will Challenge Google Apps Sci-Tech Today
Microsoft Office 2010 Could Be a Revenue Boon or Bomb eWeek
Microsoft counterpunches with free Web-based version of Office Los Angeles
Dual Boot Android Netbook Paves the Way for Chrome OS Mashable
Will Chrome OS And Android Co-exist? WATBlog
Acer to launch dual-OS netbook in August Pocket-lint.com
Why Is Acer Still Launching a Netbook With XP and Android? jkOnTheRun
HP, Acer Developing Google Chrome OS Netbooks, Schmidt Says eWeek
Google Chrome OS And The Mac, Part 2 bMighty.com
Eric Schmidt Talks About Google Chrome OS He was against the idea ... Softpedia
Why Google Is Stealing Apple's Ideas Forbes
Chrome OS and Google Domination ZDNet
Bing is Now the 13th Most Visited Website Search Engine Journal
Bing challenges search dominance, Google starts desktop war LubbockOnline.com
Week in review: Cracking SSNs, Google's Chrome OS, and HTML 5 Ars Technica
Microsoft Windows 7 Will Be Skipped by 6 in 10 Companies, Says Survey eWeek
Microsoft Announces Browser Based on Vista Operating System BBSpot (satire)
Windows 7 A No-Go For Business, Survey Says InformationWeek

Office 2010

Microsoft Reveals Office 2010 Timing, Technical Preview PC World
Microsoft Previews Office 2010 to Developers PC Magazine
Microsoft Office 2010 Starts Ascension to the Cloud New York Times
Confirmed: Office 2010 32-bit and 64-bit coming on one DVD Ars Technica
CNET News Daily Podcast: Opening the door on Office 2010 CNET News
Windows 7, Office 2010, Google Chrome OS: Never a Dull Tech Moment PC World
Microsoft's Head Is in the Clouds Motley Fool
Microsoft's Office In The Cloud Forbes
What Chrome OS has on Windows that Linux doesn't Cnet Asia
Is Microsoft set up for failure with Windows 7 and Office 2010? TG Daily
Windows 7 RTM & Office 2010 Beta Coming Today? TrustedReviews
CONFIRMED – Windows 7 RTM, Server 2008, and Office 2010 Beta Leaked Windows 7 News
Download Microsoft Office 2010 Beta 1 Redmond Pie
Office 2010 Looks Like More Bloat to Me DaniWeb
A Look At Office 2010 with Chris Capossela Microsoft - Channel 9
Get yer Microsoft Office 2010 right here Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Microsoft Office 2010 can be downloaded right now (if that's your ... CrunchGear
Clippy stars in new Office 2010 promo video CNET News
Microsoft Office 2010 launch Examiner.com
Spellcheck This: Microsoft Office 2010, The Movie ReadWriteWeb
Microsoft's Clippy Makes Dramatic Return in Office 2010 Thriller Maximum PC

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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Home Security: Talk To Your Neighbors About Security



ADT is America's #1 Home Security Provider. It is for those who seek protection of their homes, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Better safe than sorry. It is also cost effective. It lowers your home insurance rate. ADT's interconnected command centers watch your home 24 hours a day so you can have peace of mind.

Is your home protected? Is your neighbor's home protected? Talk to your neighbors about their home safety. Be a good neighbor. Do you look out for each other? Have one of you had your home invaded recently? Talk about it. Be caring. Build community.
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Tens Of Billions Of Hours Available

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Say there are seven billion people on the planet. Of those one billion are online. Each human being has only 24 hours in each day. So there are 24 billion hours available on any one day. But maybe not. People also like to sleep, eat, work, do other offline things. Considering Microsoft continues to make a ton of money through Windows and Office, we might have to lump screen time with online time.

24 billion hours - (eight billion hours for sleeping + eight billion hours for working + four billion hours for other) = four billion hours

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But then there are hundreds of millions who partly or fully work in front of a computer. And there are other things that compete: TV, movie theaters, walks in the park.

But even with the screen time space, you are probably going for your niche. You are not competing with Microsoft for word processing probably, or Google for search, or CNN for news, or Facebook for social networking, or Twitter for, well, twittering.

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There are only so many human beings with only so much time for your particular niche.

How to stretch what is available?

The most obvious are two. One, get more people online. A billion times 24 hours is a billion hours. Seven billion times 24 hours is 168 billion hours. And you try and turn more and more of those people into part or full knowledge workers.

Those two would be an ongoing process.

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There is far saturation. What if everybody possible is already online, and most are knowlegdge workers already? You would have hit a finity. There is a near saturation. What if it will take too long to bring everyone online, too long to eradicate poverty and turn most people into being knowledge workers? Then for all practical purposes you have hit a finity already in the immediate term.

People will gravitate to services that better organize their information for less time and money, preferably little time and no money.

The way we serve ads will evolve with such shifts in attention. Attention is p

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rime currency.

The number of hours might be finite, but there is a certain infinity to the human mind and its possibilities. There will be a constant churn of content creation, search and organization, presentation. We will keep finding ever more new ways to perform those basic functions.

The web will keep trying to approach the human mind.

From The Google Blogs

Introducing the Google Chrome OS
Google Chrome OS - FAQ

Special Site for President Obama's visit to Ghana
Language: a lens for experiencing culture & technology
Google SMS to serve needs of poor in Uganda
University Outreach in Kenya
New in Gmail: Inbox preview
New African countries live on Google Maps
Launching Google Suggest in Swahili
Launching Google in the Benin and Central African Republic
Making Google Map Maker more Accessible and Useful
Google University Research Awards for Africa
Google Maps launches in Kenya
Launching Google in Madagascar
New Maps for Senegal, Zimbabwe, Mauritius and Seychelles
Making information more accessible in Kenya
The Literacy Project speaks French too!
Local Search for Maps of Nairobi
Search in new African languages
Trophy giving time!
Ethiopic Transliteration in Google suggest
Mapping Barack Obama's hometown of Kogelo
Making information more accessible in Ghana and Nigeria
Power to the People or Power from the People?
Technical Internship Opportunities at Google EMEA
Learn more about Google's Education Resources
Working towards "One Africa, One Health"
Launching Google in Sierra Leone
Introducing Google.org Geo Challenge Grants
YouTube Users Responds to Crisis in the DR Congo
Why Local Content Matters
One Water Africa trip
Running the Nairobi Marathon
Personalized gadgets for South Africa
Information Poverty
BarCamp Africa
Let's Map Africa!
South Africa's rubik's cube comes together
New Mozambique page live
Congratulations to the gadget competition winners!
Goog - al - Jazaer!
Google invests in O3b Networks
Looking for a few good men and women
New Google homepage for Tanzania in Swahili
A conversation in Kisii
Google News launches in 9 African countries
Announcing a new investment in Kenya
Bravo Vega! Winners of Global Online Marketing Challenge
Teaching iGoogle at East African universities
Partnership with the Zawadi Africa Education Fund
South African student wins open source prize, visits Googleplex
Google Johannesburg celebrates World Environment Week
Programmers, get ready, get set
East Africa gadget competition
Covering all things Google in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Monday, July 13, 2009

TechCrunch Rebuttal: Google Should Not Make Its Formula Transparent


I don't see what is "fascinating" about this TechCrunch guest blog post supposedly by "a well known executive at one of the largest sites on the Internet."

The Time Has Come To Regulate Search Engine Marketing And SEO TechCrunch

The dude - and most likely he is a dude - makes one valid point, that it would be nice to have two equally good search engines around. I second that opinion. Other than that he just blabbers on.

His central tenet is bogus. Google can not go transparent with the rules by which it serves up search any more than Coke can go public with its secret formula, or for that matter KFC. If the rules were transparent, consumers would get heavily gamed search results. Google not being transparent is its attempt at pure search, something never achieved, never will be.

And he makes a very false, serious accusation, that how much a company spends on AdWords determines how well it does on organic search. That is an outright lie. Google Search and Google AdWords do not talk to each other.

The worst suggestion he makes is that the government should step in and decide what formula Google should use. That suggestion is heresy.

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Seth Godin And Blog Traffic

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I put out a blog post called Seth Godin Looks Like A Movie Star and my blog's traffic fell off the cliff for the next few days. I am going to work to build it back up starting from today.

In The News
Microsoft's Office head talks Google and more
Chasing the Prius'50-mpg nirvana
Report: MySpace to push deeper into entertainment
Ten issues I have with Twitter (and its community)
The Internet is a dollar store
A high-quality image projector on your smartphone?
Warner Music Group and YouTube talking again
Prosecutor: Cloud computing is security's frontier
The Google OS surfaced in March--or did it?
Microsoft aims for Silverlight at end of the tunnel
Botnet worm in DOS attacks could wipe data out on infected PCs
Digital eyes will chart baseball's unseen skills
FAQ: What the smart grid means to you
Digital City No. 40: Google's Chrome OS vs. stealing cell phones vs. NYC subway map phone apps

Google's Chrome: We've Got It Wrong BusinessWeek
Chrome vs. Android
Metal Prices Are Surging Again
Education Technology At Risk
Stocks Finish Mixed
Analyst Picks and Pans: Yahoo, PHH, Danaher
Looking for Clues in Q2 Earnings Calls
China's Economy: Recovery Gains Momentum
Globalization Challenges Facing China Inc.
Ranbaxy Recalls Drug in the U.S.
Chevrolet and the new GM
Rethinking Retirement
June Jobs Report Disappoints
New Book on Facebook: Fun Trumps Facts
Facebook Lures Advertisers at MySpace's Expense
Chrome vs. Android
Management IQ: Pfizer CEO Braces For Changes
Tech Beat: Hands-on with the BlackBerry Tour
Money & Politics: Fed Chair Bernanke to Hold Town Hall on Economy
Learning from Apple's Design Consultant
What's Next For Green Building?
Netflix Contest: Another Crowd Pleaser
The New Criterion for MBA Admissions
Your Best Year Ever
Fresh Out of College and Off to Business School
Manage Your Boss
Leadership in Six Words
Discrimination in Measuring Efficiency
A Primer on Equity Investment
The Pros and Cons of Co-Branding
Tim Hortons and Cold Stone: Co-Branding Strategies
Great Cars at Goodwood
St. Louis' All-Star Break Pay Day
A Decadently Fruity California Cab
The Man Who Tamed the Tamil Tigers Time
How the Republicans Will Go After Sotomayor
How Olympic TV Might Kill Chicago's 2016 Bid
Postpartum Depression: Do All Moms Need Screening?
The Pros and Cons of Reverse Mortgages
The Five Pillars of Obama's Foreign Policy
New York's New High Line Park
How Health-Care Reform Could Hurt Doctor-Owned Hospitals
Cutting Health-Care Costs by Putting Doctors on a Budget
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  2. The Five Pillars of Obama's Foreign Policy
  3. No Charisma? Don't Worry, You Can Still Be a Leader
  4. Can Turmeric Relieve Pain? One Doctor's Opinion
  5. Joe Jackson Makes Bid for Care of Michael's Kids
  6. How Olympic TV Might Kill Chicago's 2016 Bid
  7. Fujifilm's New Dimension
  8. Housing Woes: Price Reductions Are Proliferating
  9. What Michael Jackson Did on His Last Day
  10. Afterbirth: It's What's For Dinner
The Onion's Nathan Rabin
Why We Get Lost
Werner Herzog
The State of Homelessness in the U.S.
Judging Sonia Sotomayor's Record
The Federal Government Cannot Protect Itself
Study: Help for Chronic Hair-Pullers?
Outside Chicago, a Grim Tale of Unearthed Graves
Tragic Symbol: Egypt's Headscarf Martyr
Ensign's Parents Gave Mistress's Family $96k
Can Democrats Pass Health-Care Reform on Their Own?
Obama and the Pope Agree to Disagree on "Life"
Housing Woes: Price Reductions Are Proliferating
Why There Should Be More Oil Speculation, Not Less
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Can Turmeric Relieve Pain? One Doctor's Opinion
Can Gaming Slow Mental Decline in the Elderly?
Jackson May Play London After All, Via Footage
Photos: Growing Up with Harry Potter
President Obama Meets Pope Benedict XVI
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Google Chrome Operating System: Pinging Bing


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The war is on. Microsoft wants to do search. Google wants to do operating system. The days of Google gingerly wading into Microsoft territory with the likes of Google Docs are over. Now it is a frontal attack. It is face time. Don't sue Microsoft. Don't sue Google. Let them face each other. Let the game begin.

The war is on. The consumer stands to benefit.

The announcement of the Google Chrome Operating System is a big win for the concept of cloud computing. I don't want to host an operating system on my desk either. Take it away. Host it in the cloud. You can keep the browser too. Take me straight to the web. I don't want to stare at my windscreen. I want to look through it. (David Gelernter: Manifesto)

This ties into my IC vision, Internet Computer. The IC is not a cheaper PC any more than
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the PC was a smaller mainframe. The IC is a departure from the PC. The Google Chrome OS is a giant leap towards that IC vision. (JyotiConnect Inc.)

Google Chrome OS is going to be open source. It is going to be free. And Google will still make a ton of money. How? If more people come online, and more people spend more time online, Google wins because search is a central function on the web, and Google rules that turf. They have more people to click on their ads. It is roundabout, but it works swell.

Microsoft is going online and ad-based or Microsoft is going bust.

Google Plans a PC Operating System New York Times initially intended for use in the tiny, low-cost portable computers known as netbooks, which have been selling quickly even as demand for other PCs has plummeted. Google said it believed the software would also be able to power full-size PCs.......... move is likely to sharpen the already intense competition between Google and Microsoft ...... Netbooks running the software will go on sale in the second half of 2010. ....... applications run directly inside an Internet browser ...... challenges not only Microsoft’s lucrative Windows business but also its applications business, which is built largely on selling software than runs on PCs. ...... Google has been adding features to Chrome, like the ability to run such applications even when a user is not connected to the Internet. ..... “Chrome is basically a modern operating system,” Mr. Andreessen said. ...... Microsoft began offering its older Windows XP operating system for use on netbooks at a low price.
Introducing the Google Chrome OS the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web. So today, we're announcing a new project that's a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It's our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be. ....... Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We're designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don't have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work. .......... Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. For application developers, the web is the platform. ....... Google Chrome OS is being created for people who spend most of their time on the web, and is being designed to power computers ranging from small netbooks to full-size desktop systems. ....... People want to get to their email instantly, without wasting time waiting for their computers to boot and browsers to start up. They want their computers to always run as fast as when they first bought them. ........ they don't want to spend hours configuring their computers to work with every new piece of hardware, or have to worry about constant software updates. ...... happier users who are more likely to spend time on the Internet.
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