Spam Arrest
There have been quite a few stories about spam here on patrickWeb. Early in the debate — years ago — I took the position that the elimination of spam could be handled by technology and that laws would not work. I testified in Washington on that point and urged congressmen to resist the temptation to […]
The Application Web
This week I attended an IBM software technology briefing about SOA. Only brilliant technical people could come up with SOA as a name for something. Let’s see, is it safe operating area, School of the Americas, Skies of Arcadia (a Nintendo game), Society of Actuaries, state of the art, or the Sarbanes-Oxley Act? Nope. Maybe […]
Internet TV
Technology writer, Peter Svensson, wrote an interesting story called "Will video break the Internet?". From a technical point of view there are many factors to consider. If a large number of web "surfers" were using the Internet as their primary way to watch TV, there would be a problem. More capacity is clearly needed, especially […]
Update
There are some pictures from the New Orleans trip in the photo gallery. Red Herring ran a story called “Net 2016: The Web 10 Years After” in which a number of us were quoted. See in the news. If you haven’t tried Pandora and you are in the U.S., Australia or New Zealand, I highly […]
The Big Picture From Rome
The final afternoon of the Business Leadership Forum focused on the big picture — of both global political factors and technology. A panel included Karl-Heinz Grasser, Federal Minister of Finance for the Republic of Austria. He spoke about how governments can not only avoid being an obstacle to innovation and growth but also encourage competition […]
