Google Voice invites for all students
On May 14 Google invited all students to appl for Google Voice accounts.
To get an invite, just visit http://google.com/voice/students and enter an email address that that ends in .edu.
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Advancing Community Broadband: Summer Discussion Series @ Columbia
Advancing Community Broadband: A Summer Discussion Series
The purpose of the Advancing Community Broadband: A Summer Discussion Series is to generate a conversation now that a number of concerned parties in New York have gone through the experience of developing broadband stimulus proposals in the first round and in the case of DOITT and DOE have been successfully funded. The idea is that once a month, a group of stakeholders will come together to discuss their thinking around the broadband stimulus, the National Broadband Plan and where they think broadband in America is headed. The meetings will be organized as a half-day forum, hosted on the campus of Columbia University.
Each half-day forum will revolve around a core theme with interrelated subthemes. The group will have in attendance speakers who will share their thoughts and ideas on the theme as a way to start a robust conversation under the broad thematic area. The discussion will be captured on video, audio and by digital still photograph as well as in written form by student rapporteurs.
The next meeting will be held on the campus of Columbia University at the Rm 520, Mudd Building, Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science.
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INET San Francisco is May 7 – Theme: Internet trust challenges
INET SF 2010: Internet trust challenges and where we need to be in the next 10 years.
The San Francisco Chapter of the Internet Society organizes a regional INET conference to discuss important issues related to the Internet.
In the current Internet model we are faced with growing challenges of trust. How do we trust a particular address we type in a web browser? With ever-increasing social media networks and increasing number of communication how do we ensure that information we exchange can be trusted. The Internet has become a comfortable form of business transactions, can we trust the current Internet model or should we be thinking differently?
The San Francisco INET will bring together experts from Internet policy, standards, private sector and user community. We will explore current Internet policy challenges, how to advance security in the domain name system, how are businesses dealing with issues of trust and how is email communication evolving to ensure end-to-end trust. The conference will hold two panel sessions where audience can interact with experts. The goal of this conference is not to find ways to work with the current Internet trust model but what we want the model to be in the next ten years.
Keynote Speakers:
- Peter Dengate Thrush, Chairman of ICANN
- Zaid Ali, Chairman/President SF-Bay ISOC
- Daniel T Dreymann, President/Co-Founder, Goodmail Systems
- James Galvin, Afilias
- Alex Deacon, Verisign
- Jim Fenton, Cisco Systems
- Dave Crocker, Brandenburg InternetWorking
- Dave Lewis, Online Trust Alliance
- Lucy Lynch, Internet Society
- Stuart Staniford, FireEye
More info and formal registration: http://www.sfbayisoc.org/inetsf2010
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No webcast.
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Steve Jobs – #Theora not free, threatened by patent pool
Steve Jobs, responding to a free software advocate suggesting Apple consider implementing “free” video codec Theora:
All video codecs are covered by patents. A patent pool is being assembled to go after Theora and other “open source” codecs now. Unfortunately, just because something is open source, it doesn’t mean or guarantee that it doesn’t infringe on others patents. An open standard is different from being royalty free or open source.
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Some commentary, including details of Microsoft’s support for HTML5 and h264, <http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=2095>here
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INET Live webcast from Washington DC
The live webcast from INET in Washington DC is below:
Twitter tag: #inetdc
Morning session:
- Session 3: Using the bits: Daniel Salcedo, Harry Wingo, Panel
Afternoon session:
- Keynote Address: Larry Strickling
- Technology / Policy Slam
Continued
- Policy Slam judging
- networking break
- Executive Address: Dr. James Galvin
- Featured Discussion: Romain Murenzi & Reed Hundt
- Closing remarks: Brian Cute
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Diaspora developers present to ISOC-NY – a “privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all distributed open source social network”
On Feb 5 2010 Eben Moglen challenged the tech community to liberate the world from the shackles of social media conglomerates by developing the “freedom box” – a distributed peer-to-peer equivalent. On Apr 22 2010 four NYU students briefed ISOC-NY on their response to Moglen’s challenge – diaspora – a “privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all distributed open source social network”. The project went live on kickstarter the next day.
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FCC RELEASES FIRST-EVER PAPER ON ACCESSIBILITY AND TECHNOLOGY ISSUES
On April 23 the FCC released A Giant Leap & A Big Deal: Delivering on the Promise of Equal Access to Broadband for People with Disabilities – a study of the numerous barriers to broadband usage faced by people with disabilities.
The study reports that:
- Only 42 percent of people with disabilities have high-speed Internet.
- 39 percent of all non-adopters have a disability.
The paper builds upon the three broad recommendations from the National Broadband Plan
*the creation of a Broadband Accessibility Working Group (“BAWG”) within the Executive Branch;
*the establishment of an Accessibility and Innovation Forum at the FCC
*the modernization of accessibility laws, rules, and related subsidy programs by the FCC, the Department of Justice, and Congress. -
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Harlem’s Global Tech Prep – poster child for tech in NYC schools
A lengthy profile in Gotham Gazette details innovative implementation of technology in one of the city’s schools. Students at Global Technology Preparatory all get school issued Dell laptops, have flexible hours, online classes with remote teachers, stimulating and multilingual courseware.
The program is one of ten pilot schools in the Innovation Zone, or iZone initiative, a partnership between the City and corporate sponsors. The program will be expanded to 81 public schools in the 2010-2011 school year -
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U.S. House of Representatives unveils HouseLive.gov -searchable / downloadable video webcast system
The U.S. House of Representatives has unveiled searchable / downloadable video webcast system HouseLive.gov. Here is Speaker Pelosi’s announcement.
This service is from Granicus, who already do a similar thing for Los Angeles and San Francisco’s City Councils, amongst others. It’s a proven system. You can see them here pitching NYC. The search facility is great, allowing viewers to jump directly to the point in any video where a certain phrase is mentioned. That, combined with the fact they also offer downloads puts them way ahead of anything in central government – including the FCC!
The only possible criticism is that it is based on proprietary software, with Microsoft’s Silverlight plug-in doing the streaming, and iPod-ready mp4 and mp3 for downloads.
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I note the boilerplate:
Proceedings of the House of Representatives, including any recording of such proceedings, may not be used for any political purpose or in any commercial advertisement, and may not be broadcast with commercial sponsorship except as part of a bona fide news program or public affairs documentary program.
I had thought such proceedings were public domain, apparently not.
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ISOC-NY Planning Meeting – tonight 4/22
ISOC-NY will have a planning meeting tonight April 22 2010. A special feature tonight will be a brief presentation by NYU students on their work developing the Freedom Box idea suggested by Eben Moglen at his recent talk. - What: ISOC-NY Planning meeting
- When: Thu Apr 22 2010 6.30pm-8.00pm
- Where: Room 412, Warren Weaver Hall, 251 Mercer Street NYC (SW corner of West 4th) (See note below)
- All are welcome. Come along for a chat!
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