Tag Archives: internet

guardian.co.uk – Networks are not always revolutionary

Fair point I think, hav­ing the net­work or hav­ing fame isn’t enough to guar­an­tee suc­cess but it does help.

July 17, 2011 – 4:36 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Art, Communication, Culture, Politics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Marco.org – Own your identity

The main point behind this blog and own­ing this domain is that exact rea­son, own­ing my iden­tity on the web.

July 12, 2011 – 1:16 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Communication, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

BBC News – Netherlands makes net neutrality a law

The Nether­lands of course makes the right call.

June 23, 2011 – 10:52 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Communication, Politics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

The Faster Times – AOL Hell: An AOL Content Slave Speaks Out

Highly depress­ing read, both into the writ­ing prac­ticed at AOL and what this busi­ness con­sid­ers impor­tant (just gen­er­at­ing stu­pid triv­ial trash to gen­er­ate pageviews).

June 18, 2011 – 12:39 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Communication, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Twilio Engineering Blog – Why Twilio Wasn’t Affected by Today’s AWS Issue

Twilio on how to build a ser­vice that was able to deal with Amazon’s downtime.

April 24, 2011 – 8:50 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

CNET News – Democratic senator wants Internet sales taxes

When this goes through (though pos­si­bly not this year) some busi­ness is going to make a mint pro­vid­ing a back-end ser­vice to know how much taxes need to be applied towards a pur­chase. Amazon/PayPal/Google Check­out should start build­ing that now, if they haven’t already.

April 12, 2011 – 11:26 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Politics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Huffington Post – U.S. House Ignores Internet Reality, Again

If it wasn’t so frus­trat­ing you have to almost admire Repub­li­cans abil­ity to ignore their own experts or exam­ples when legislating.

April 10, 2011 – 1:12 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Communication, Economics, Politics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off