Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen, Director of Google Ideas, debate the role that connection technologies will play in statecraft and foreign policy, and how governments and businesses in the West should foster the spread and use of these technologies in places such as China and Iran. Posted by the Council on Foreign Relations on Nov 4. Associated essay: Digital Disruption.
Video: Why Viacom v. YouTube Matters (Besides the $1 Billion)
The Copyright Society of the U.S.A. New York Chapter Panel: Why Viacom v. YouTube Matters (Besides the $1 Billion) at the Princeton Club NYC on Nov 18 2010. While YouTube won a summary judgement in this case, it is under appeal. The panel was tasked, rather than making appellate cases, with discussing the implications of the decision. Nevertheless much of the meat of the arguments was chewed at this lunchtime event.
Panel: Cliff Sloan (Partner, Skadden Arps), Daniel Blackman (Co-founder, Howcast, and formerly of Google), Michael Kwun (Of Counsel, Keker & Van Nest), Thomas Sydnor (Director of the Center for the Study of Digital Property at The Progress & Freedom Foundation), Moderated by Professor James Grimmelmann (New York Law School)
Eric Schmidt: “Laws Are Written by Lobbyists” #innovation
In a February 2010 Washington Post Op-Ed Google CEO Eric Schmidt called on US Government to recognize bottom-up solutions to the “innovation deficit“.
Now this week, warming to his theme, he criticized the policy making process. “”The average American doesn’t realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists” to protect incumbent interests, he said at the Washington Ideas Forum. “It’s shocking how the system actually works.”
Discussion of Google/Verizon statement on Open Internet #netneutrality #isoc
Google and Verizon’s joint policy proposal for an open Internet is causing an ongoing public discussion. See details and links to commentary here.
Google/Verizon statement on Open Internet #netneutrality
Google and Verizon have issued a statement A joint policy proposal for an open Internet to address last week’s furor over network neutrality. The companies have published a proposal to the FCC, see below.
A teleconference with the CEOs of both companies is live-blogged here and here.
Video: Google container data center tour
A Robert X Cringely op-ed in today’s New York Times suggests that the Verizon-Google deal that caused so much of an uproar last week is simply an arrangement, in a practice common to CDNs known as edge-serving, to place data servers in the ISP’s premises. Cringely notes that in Google’s case ‘data server’ takes on a whole new meaning with the utilization of a modular system of multiple blade-laden shipping containers. Here’a video guide to a Google data center built on the system:
More:
* Google Public Policy blog: Net neutrality and the benefits of caching
* Google presentation to IETF Designs, Lessons and Advice from Building Large Distributed Systems
* Doc Searls Nothing happening here. Move along.
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”.
Video: Google Micro-trenching Race #fiber
A video of micro-trench race filmed on Google campus April 16, 2010. Congrats to the winners! Bring on the fiber Olympics!
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.
Google to Open-source VP8 for HTML5 Video
NewTeeVee reports Google will soon make its VP8 video codec open source. The company is scheduled to officially announce the release at its Google I/O developers conference next month, a source with knowledge of the announcement said