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Goofus and Gallant—Two Sides of the Same Internet Experience
The intersection between what the Internet is ideally used for versus its actual application can be a hilarious question to consider. On the one hand, we have the vision of the Internet’s virtuous possibility – for news, access to the world community, education, identity, career discovery, matchmaking, social innovation, etc. On the other hand we [...]
A Sneak Peek into the New Internet — Nominum’s 2010 Global Customer Conference
In just three short months, Nominum will host its 7th Annual Global Customer Conference. The two day, invitation only, event will take place in New York City on October 6-8. This year is special and promises to be truly unique! We plan to unveil a completely new service that has been well over a year [...]
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Steering Clear of Digital Quicksand
I’ve been on a bit of a travel stint lately (my apologies for the publication hiatus!). I did, however, have the pleasure of attending the annual investment conference hosted by T-Venture (the investment arm of Deutsche Telekom) in Bonn, Germany the week before last and thought they addressed some themes worth exploring. This year, they [...]
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Because Pets Can’t Drive
I had the pleasure of attending the 25th Anniversary Gala of .com hosted by Verisign at San Francisco’s City Hall last week. Good food, good people, and good entertainment pretty much sums up the event. Scott McNealy spoke on behalf of all the honorees and gave a very credible list of the top “10 to [...]
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O’ Brother, Where art thou?
[Imagine the sound of a hammer being dropped in the middle of a crowded room] Ka-thunk! Are our good friends at Google floating a trial balloon to governments and carriers around the world that Google’s DNS should be THE DNS for the Internet? I heard this rumor from someone not prone to conspiracy theorizing and, [...]
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The Omnibox, and Soviets, and Australia OH MY!
I have received a number of recent comments (THANK YOU!) asking for clarification and elaboration on my internet filtering/government involvement views. Hopefully this helps to clarify. One of the comments was the following from “Brandon” in response to my post I’m a Better Digital Citizen After Australia: If you provide such technology to a government [...]
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When did search turn into being searched?
I’m just going to come out and say it: I have a beef with the marriage of browsers and search. To be fair, I can see the convenience and appeal of having an improved search function, but I’m suspicious of non-transparent auto-upgrades and the Omnibox.  Allowing users an informed choice and preserving privacy seem to [...]
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