Video: #WiGig and 60GHz explained
Whiteboard video from Craig Mathias on the 60 GHz spectrum and the difference between WiGig and WiMedia.
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Video: 2010 Google Faculty Summit: Closing Remarks by Vint Cerf #IPv6
On July 30 2010 Vint Cerf provided the closing remarks at the sixth Google North American Computer Science Faculty Summit. He talked about the need for IPv6 adoption and the coming “Internet of Things”.
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Drumbeat NYC – Saturday 8/7 Noon-5pm #openweb
August 7, 2010 – 12:00pm – 5:00pm
OpenPlans
148 Lafayette Street
Penthouse (13th floor)
New York, NY, 10013
https://www.drumbeat.org/events/drumbeat-new-yorkMore info below:
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ISOC Policy Audit Plugin Beta Evaluation – Call for participants #trust
The ISOC Trust & Identity Initiative is collaborating with the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU) on the development of an Identity Management Policy Audit System. The goal of the IdM Policy Audit System is to provide a simple way for end users to access and track the various policies governing the use of websites they visit. This is accomplished using a suite of tools that monitor and store website usage policies as they change over time, and providing a mechanism for users to easily access this information.Find details, and how to participate in the beta program, below.
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David Solomonoff, “Taking Back the Edge: Freedom and the Internet Model” #NYC Mon 8/9 free
David Solomonoff, President of the Internet Society of New York, isoc-ny.org will give a talk on “Taking Back the Edge: Freedom and the Internet Model” at the monthly meeting of the Manhattan Libertarian Party, http://manhattanlp.org.
Time: August 9th (Second Monday of every month) 7:00 pm
Location: Ukrainian East Village Restaurant
Street: 140 2nd Ave
City/Town: New York, NYDavid’s notes:
I believe that historians will come to see the development of the Internet as an event comparable to the development of movable type in importance because of the way it has revolutionized human communication.The original decentralized, edge-based design of the Internet allowed every connected computer to act as both a client and a server — both to be a publisher and a reader, a broadcaster and an audience.
As the Internet continues to grow, maintaining it requires ongoing development of both the technology and the standards and protocols that are used to send and receive information across the Net.
While some of the issues involved seem highly technical, even esoteric, the decisions that are maintained can potentially change the Internet from it’s open architecture to a closed one that is more condusive to repressive social structures where a only small group can send messages and everyone else can only receive them, and where the inner workings of the technology are kept secret and cannot be altered by anyone except for a small elite.
The mission of the Internet Society (ISOC) is to promote the open development, evolution, and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world.
In pursuit of this mission, ISOC is actively involved in the open development of standards, protocols, and the technical infrastructure of the Internet.
ISOC’s activities are founded upon the principles of open, unencumbered, beneficial use of the Internet. This requires, among other things, freedom of self-expression without censorship, the right to privacy and the use of encryption to that end, and cooperation between network providers using openly developed standards and protocols.
I’ll discuss the long-term benefits that the current Internet model brings to an open society and some the challenges to that model that come both from repressive political forces and monopolistic interests that seek to convert the Internet to closed, highly centralized, proprietary technologies.
David Solomonoff is the President of the New York Chapter of the Internet Society as well as the Library Systems Manager of the SUNY Downstate Medical Research Library. He has worked in an IT capacity for libraries and educational publishers for twenty years and is an active open source software advocate.
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Open Video Conference, October 1-2 in NYC – early bird registration ends Aug 4
This October 1 & 2, Open Video Alliance will present the second annual Open Video Conference in New York City. While the OVA focuses on creating and promoting free and open technologies, policies, and practices in online video, the conference embodies the important need for discussion which transcends online video and grapples with the larger questions of mass media, participatory culture, and the state of freedom and openness online.
Last year’s conference featured talks by thinkers and activists like Jonathan Zittrain, Yochai Benkler, Josh Silver of Free Press, Mark Surman of Mozilla, and legendary hacker DVD Jon—as well as artists and filmmakers like Eyebeam, Eclectic Method, and Ted Hope.
This year’s line up is set to be just as diverse, stimulating, and informative, featuring speakers like telecommunications scholar Tim Wu (who first coined the term “net neutrality”), former Obama adviser Susan Crawford, cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch, and lead singer/guitarist Damian Kulash of the band OK Go.
OVC is two days of talks, workshops, panels, and film screenings on technology, business, law, education, and the future of storytelling.
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Bronx to be pilot for M2Z free wireless project, but only if…
The NY Times reports County Executives of America, a national group of elected officials, has proposed a plan to provide free broadband wireless service to more than 400,000 households in the Bronx. The borough was selected along with 11 other counties across the country for the project, a proof of concept for nationwide plan.
The project is to be built by M2Z Networks – a company that was in the news in 2007 when the FCC denied its application for a healthy swath of spectrum (2155-2175MHz) in return for building a nationwide wireless network. The FCC revived the idea in 2008 with an open bidding process, upping the speed from 368kbps to 768kbps and including an – eventually dropped – controversial requirement that content be filtered. Other companies were not in favor of giving any one company such dominance over such a service, and another company NetFreeUS proposed a much more open scenario involving devolution to local providers and a certain amount of spectrum set aside as ‘commons’. With the change of the guard at the FCC the plan stalled but now M2Z have got together with the Counties to try and kickstart it back into action. The only holdup? The FCC has to approve the spectrum deal and the NTIA has to kick in $122m of stimulus funds.
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FIND IT QUITE INTERESTING THAT M2Z PROPOSES TO OFFER PSEUDO FREE SERVICE IF THEY ARE GRANTED 122 MILLION IN FEDERAL DOLLARS AMONG OTHER THINGS….IE. GAINING ACCESS TO SO CALLED FALLOW SPECTRUM…WHILE AT THE SAME TIME THE NTIA HAS NOT GRANTED ANY GROUP OF COLOR A GRANT FOR INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT…HERE WE HAVE A YET ANOTHER WELL FINANCED GROUP OFFER TO DO “GOOD DEEDS ” IN THE NAME OF THE UNDERSERVED …YET ONE HAS TO PONDER WHY IS THERE A UNDER SERVED TO BEGIN WITH? COULD IT BE THERE ARE NOT ANY MEANING FULL OPPORTUNITIES? FOR SOME GROUPS ??
NEW YORK CITY SPENDS OVER 750 MILLION DOLLARS ANNUALLY ON TELECOM SERVICES (THAT WOULD BE TAXPAYER MONEY INCLUDING UNDERSERED FOLKS AS WELL) …AND THAT IS SPENT WITH FOR THE MOST PART EXCLUSIVELY WITH BIG COMPANIES …YET WE WONDER WHY THERE IS AN UNDERSERVED IN TECHNOLOGY AND WITH THAT TYPE OF GOVT. SPEND NO LESS …PLEASE!!!! THE NOTION OF ELECTRONIC DISCRIMINATION IS PERHAPS LIVE AND WELL… IT SAYS HERE THERE NEED NOT BE IF WE HOLD GOVT FEET TO THE FIRE AND STOP THE FEEDING AT THE THROUGH FOR THESE BIG COMPANIES AT THE EXPENSE OF ALL OF US ..THE ABILITY TO BUILD AND MAINTAIN EFFICIENT UBIQUITOUS NETWORKS WITH BACKING FROM GOVT CAN AND SHOULD BE DONE ….AND IT CAN HAPPEN WITHOUT BRINGING FORBEARANCE AND DOOM ON PRIVATE FOR PROFIT COMPANIES ….MAYBE SOMEONE OUGHT TO SPEAK UP AND ACTUALLY DO SOMTHING……SIGNED MEMBERS OF THE DIGITAL DIVIDE PARTNERSHIP -
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Update: FCC to M2Z: forgeddaboutit!
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Wiki-Conference New York – Aug 28-29 2010 @NYU
Wikiconference NYC 2009, .
The 2nd annual Wiki-Conference New York is to be held over the weekend of August 28-29 2010 at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, hosted by ITP and supported by Free Culture @ NYU and Wikimedia New York City.Please consider making a presentation, maybe a Lightning Talk!
Register here: bit.ly/wikinyc
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Best Buy to sell Clearwire WiMax in NYC in 2011 at $30+/mo. #WiMax #broadband #nyc
Best Buy has announced a wholesale deal in which Best Buy would offer Clearwire’s WiMax service through the retailer’s recently announced Connect service. Best Buy plans to start offering the service in 2011, but didn’t provide a specific date.
The company’s 4G service is currently available in 36 cities and is expected to add 24 more by the end of the year. The additional cities include New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Denver and Miami.
How Best Buy will offer the Clearwire service was not disclosed, but the latter company last month introduced three 4G modems.
Clearwire says its usage plans do not require long-term service contracts. Unlimited 4G coverage starts at $30 in most markets for residential service and unlimited mobile plans start at $40.
[Source: Information Week]
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Audio: ISOC meeting at ICANN 38
This ISOC Chapters and Members Meeting meeting was held in conjunction with ICANN38 in Brussels on June 21 2010. It was attended by more than 60 participants. It provided an opportunity for ISOC Chapter delegates and members as well as ISOC staff to meet, exchange information and to get to know each other. An audio recording is now available.
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