Tag Archive for 'internet'

GoDaddy vlog

I’m a big fan of Bob Parsons. Last time, I posted about GoDaddy pulling its IPO filing.
GoDaddy recently started offering video blogging for only a couple of bucks. They’ve always been about getting a great deal and this one is no different. A domain for 8 bucks and video hosting for 5 more (monthly).
Bob has [...]

GoDaddy pulls IPO filing

I love outspoken CEOs and Bob Parsons of GoDaddy (domain names, duh!) is one of my favorites.
He speaks out on a subject that’s close to my heart – the notion that every successful company MUST do an IPO. Now, he’s not saying GoDaddy will never go for an IPO (they got their filing approved by [...]

The Ed Wood in me

I just caught Tim Burton’s Ed Wood on TV. This took me back to my college days when I first saw it. I remember that my buddies and me would go into spontaneous Bela Lugosi improvisations: “I vill create a race of atomic supermen who vill rule the Vorld!”
Looking at it now, I can’t help [...]

Streaming video growth

According to TechWeb, streaming video will grow by some 30-40% annually. Video streams increased by 50.2% in 2005 to 17.95 billion. This includes both free and subscription video streams.
A few more points from Accustream’s executive summary on streaming media growth:

Increased broadband connections (both cable modem and DSL) at the residential level
Ongoing innovation at the application [...]

Google and net neutrality

AdSense is already part of my lifestyle (I check it compulsively!). I was expecting the introduction of Google’s click-to-play video ads and voila – I get a note about them.
I visited the AdSense blog to find out more and I saw a message from Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO about network neutrality (that I wrote about in my [...]

The two-tier Internet

A flurry of articles and posts has been launched at telco’s efforts to create a two-tier Internet.
Back in the day when ISPs simply offered a connection to the Internet, this was a non-issue. It would’ve been a commercial suicide for an ISP to say: “Look, we’re going to block Yahoo! until they pay us a [...]