http://the.inevitable.org/anism The Internet is the developing nervous system of the human organism on Earth! Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:12:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I had to write one other follow up post about Google and twitter. When I read articles like this one "Google CEO: Twitter A 'Poor Man's Email System' (GOOG)" where Eric Schmidt is quoted as saying: "Speaking as a computer scientist, I view all of these as sort of poor man's email ... http://the.inevitable.org/anism/?p=3859 When I read this article by Michael Arrington today I had to come out of blog hibernation! He is hitting is right on target ... twitter is beginning to benefit from emergent properties of the mass of communications passing through it's network. I am a firm believer that anytime ... http://the.inevitable.org/anism/?p=3854 I am still a big fan of Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 (VPC) as a solution for experimenting with various operating systems.  If a machine is running Windows, you can go and download VPC 2007 for free ... and then simply create a virtual machine, and run the OS of your ... http://the.inevitable.org/anism/?p=3832 I happened to catch this article today while reading on the net.  To me, this is truly impressive in two core ways: New solar cell material achieves almost 100% efficiency, could solve world-wide energy problems Columbus (OH) - Researchers at Ohio State University have accidentally discovered a new solar cell material capable ... http://the.inevitable.org/anism/?p=3826 With the growth of the Internet, and wireless extensions of the Internet (via Wifi and broadband wireless), it is inevitable that we are going to see our abilities to participate in remote events enhanced through telepresence.  There are numerous companies working in this area for "high-end" solutions ... Cisco being ... http://the.inevitable.org/anism/?p=3824 ngs have been busy lately on the development front.  Our College Football site is doing well, and growing steadily.  We now have launched a new website this month called GoHUD.com that is a resource for home buyers and investors to search the portfolio of HUD Homes that are currently available ... http://the.inevitable.org/anism/?p=3819 Wow ... I really haven't paid attention to how long it has been since I have blogged.  I have been absolutely heads-down on two major Internet projects ... my SMS/Text Messaging platform, and a new partner site - CollegeFootball.com. CollegeFootball.com has become an interesting experiment that involves a social network with ... http://the.inevitable.org/anism/?p=3818 aw this amazing Stabilized Video Collage this morning while reading ... this is really impressive.  You have to see it to really appreciate what is being done.  As the author writes: While some people are still endlessly yelling at Flickr for the new video features, some others are experimenting around ... http://the.inevitable.org/anism/?p=3816 The wrap up of the Gilder Telecosm conference is always one of my favorite presentations. For the last number of years, it has always been Carver Mead speaking ... and he is an incredible man. It's not only his accomplishments, but his presentation itself ... his presence ... ... http://the.inevitable.org/anism/?p=3813 There were a number of cool presentations today with a focus on the semiconductors and optical components ... and various network processing units and multi-core general purpose processors for high-speed backbone networking. It's actually a fascinating subject area that few people seem to really be aware of. We ... http://the.inevitable.org/anism/?p=3811 Bob Metcalfe, of Ethernet fame, did a presentation this morning on his current investments in energy. He related, throughout the presentation, ways to link the progress of the Internet to work that could be done in looking for cheap, clean, effective, alternate energy sources. Green Fuel - one of his investments, ... http://the.inevitable.org/anism/?p=3809 Nicholas was here at Telecosm to present about the shift - the "big switch" - to cloud computing. He reviewed the background on the evolution of electricity, and drew the parallels between the early days of creating your own power, to moving to a model where the power grid ... http://the.inevitable.org/anism/?p=3808 This weekend Andrea and I came to the east coast - Lake George, NY - to have some fun, and to attend the Gilder/Forbes Telecosm 2008 conference. It was a lot of fun Sunday through Tuesday exploring the local area, going hiking in the Tongue Mountains, and having some ... http://the.inevitable.org/anism/?p=3807 I was able to get my AsteriskNOW system upgraded, and so now on to the next step ... adding a new set of VoIP channels (phone lines) and a new incoming phone number. I wanted to do all of this via VoIP so that I can learn what it ... http://the.inevitable.org/anism/?p=3805 Asterisk is one of the amazing projects of the Open Source world. AsteriskNOW takes that project even further by creating a complete turn-key package that is extremely easy to install and configure. With AsteriskNOW version Beta 6, I was able to take an old Dell PC that I ... http://the.inevitable.org/anism/?p=3802