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Friday, December 12, 2003 |
 John Stafford points me to Electric Shoebox. A cool dynamic DNS local app that lets you share photos with friends and family. Personally, I think it would be more powerful with P2P. He also pointed me to Abacast, streaming P2P distribution for radio stations. Very cool (Adam Curry will love this).
10:18:04 PM 
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The most disturbing thought about the guerrilla war in Iraq is that it we aren't fighting a single movement/group, rather, we are fighting a hydra. A beast with no central control. One that sprouts several new heads when the measures taken to destroy an existing head are too messy or clumsy. This is Israel's predicament. It can't negotiate with its terrorists, because there really aren't any cohesive organizations left. All the connective tissue is gone -- assassinated or arrested.
9:45:20 PM
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Will ISPs like AOL, MSN, and EarthLink go after the RBOCs (regional bells) via VoIP (voice communications over the Internet) for primary and secondary residential lines? If not, they should. Thar's money in them hills. There is also the opportunity to create new applications that tie contact management, call waiting, caller ID, voice mail, encryption, party chat lines, and more. A fast way to get there would be to buy Vonage and work with Akamai to roll it out globally.
5:05:45 PM
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Economist. Koreans taking a lead in developing software for broadband massively multiplayer gaming. Remember Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash? The idea of a Metaverse spawned an amazing number of attempts at creating a real world massively multiplayer simulation (like AlphaWorld). The flaw in the idea is that people don't want a generic Metaverse (or a generic social software system). They want a world that is dedicated to an idea that they identify with (gaming universes from space to fantasy for example). Also, a freeform simulation allows too much freedom (it requires too much creativity, which is why weblogging software is much more popular than webpage design software). The structure (characters, equipment, architecture, terrain, etc.) of a gaming universe makes it easy for people to quickly focus on what they want to do: game.
9:29:23 AM
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Reason. Even if hydrogen can be produced without releasing greenhouse gases, it may not be as environmentally benign as advertised by activists. A study by Caltech scientists published this past June in Science found that hydrogen leaking out of cars, pipelines and production plants could damage the ozone layer, which shields the planet from cancer-causing ultraviolet sunlight.
9:05:34 AM
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Wired. A day-old denial-of-service attack on the Web server of the controversial SCO Group has been expanded to assault the company's mail and file servers, SCO's top network administrator said. NOTE: Vigilante action by the second superpower.
9:00:29 AM
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Wired. Greenpeace representatives said they will file a motion at a Miami courthouse today in an effort to have criminal charges brought by the Justice Department dropped. The environmental organization is charged with "sailor mongering," an obscure 1872 antipiracy law, after boarding a ship from Brazil laden with mahogany... "If they are successful, then we could be classed as a criminal organization, lose our tax-exempt status and have to report our movements to the Justice Department," said John Passacantando, executive director of Greenpeace USA NOTE: A muzzle for the second superpower.
8:40:22 AM
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NYTimes. "Right now there is a lack of understanding of what the problem really is," a Justice Department official who works extensively on terror financing issues said in an interview. "Tracing money in the best of circumstances is very, very difficult, and when you're talking about terrorist operations that can be carried out for $50,000 or $75,000, it's almost impossible." NOTE: I suspect it would be possible to do flash financing events of this magnitude.
7:36:40 AM
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