Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: The Web| Web Performance
22 Feb 2006This morning, I was briefly waylaid by a colleague who wanted me to look at a traceroute for her. Her question: “Is it safe to say that alter.net is not Verizon?”
Answer: Nope.
Alter.net begat UU.net begat MCI/Worldcom begat MCI begat Verizon.
And so goes the world…
Technorati Tags: alternet, uunet, worldcom, mci, verizon, backbones, providers
In: smp
7 Oct 2005UPDATE: Geek News Central sees it another way. They see Cogent as hitching a free ride and getting thrown off the bus finally. Either way, the bacbone providers are about to realize that they aren’t the ones with power anymore.
The lawsuits from this should be interesting, and are likely going to expose many of the [...]
In: smp
21 May 2005If you thought this was bad, SAP strives to exceed its previous level of obsfucation.
Nicholas Carr quotes from the transcripts at the Boston SAP Sapphire conference.
Let’s look through this thing. Remember we had the fridge. We decided to retire the fridge. We’re going to talk about a new metaphor from now on. What is NetWeaver [...]