http://www.ampersand.com/blog Links and observations about VoIP, Presence, messaging, open source, blogs, and associated impact on society. Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:46:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Now, mainstream media (even the NY Times), often gets the details wrong.   But Edward Wyatt's piece in todays paper says that GOOG and Verizon are nearing an agreement in which Google would pay extra charges to Verizon to give higher priority to google's YouTube traffic: The charges could be paid ... http://www.ampersand.com/blog/2010/08/05/google-verizon-deal-for-prioritized-traffic/ The good folks at the EFF are running project Panopticlick -- with the tagline "How unique -- and trackable -- is your browser".    Turns out browsers will reveal lots of information about your system, even with cookies turned off.  E.g. your set of plugins (got shockwave?), your screen depth, ... http://www.ampersand.com/blog/2010/01/28/yikes-my-browser-footprint-is-unique/ Perhaps overshadowed by the Tuesday election results from my home state, and by the google china squabble, Hilary Clinton gave an address yesterday in which she outlined 5 key internet freedoms that the United States supports.   Her speech shows a surprising and wonderful degree of understanding of the value ... http://www.ampersand.com/blog/2010/01/22/us-outlines-5-internet-freedoms/ I followed the random twitterfall this morning to the Edge question of the year: How is the Internet Changing the Way you Think. An answer came right to mind, and I thought I'd make this my first post of the year.     The internet rewards clarity of purpose in a ... http://www.ampersand.com/blog/2010/01/08/how-is-the-internet-changing-how-you-thin/ I'm in the process of working with a friend on a new online store, and it's been very interesting to be "practicing what I preach" with site design, user experience, SEO, open source tools, blogs, video, and social media strategy.  And it's been a huge amount of work -- more ... http://www.ampersand.com/blog/2009/11/13/how-to-keep-your-email-off-of-blacklists/