Adam Oakley

parislemon:

Milo Medin of Google:

It’s easy to forget how revolutionary high-speed Internet access was in the 1990s. Not only did broadband kill the screeching sound of dial-up, it also spurred innovation, helping to create amazing new services as well as new job opportunities for many thousands of Americans. But today the Internet is not as fast as it should be. While high speed technology exists, the average Internet speed in the U.S. is still only 5.8 megabits per second (Mbps)—slightly faster than the maximum speed available 16 years ago when residential broadband was first introduced.

Google has just started offering Kansas City residents their Fiber service with 1,000 Mbps download and upload speeds. Yes, you read that correctly. 

And: no bandwidth caps. Boom.

It’s $70-per-month, which is about what I pay Comcast for my shitty 10 Mbps service (which it never actually hits — and has a cap). Google also includes 1 TB of storage with this fee (via Google Drive).

Or you can pay $120-per-month and get TV service as well. With a 2 TB DVR. And a Nexus 7 to control the set top box.

If you’re not ready for Gigabit Internet, you can settle for 5 Mbps service. Why the hell would you do that? Well, it’s free (with a one-time set up fee). Yep, Google is giving away the service I pay Comcast an obscene amount of money for.

Amazing. Bravo, Google. Now please bring this everywhere in the U.S. and force the cable companies to get busy innovating or get busy dying. 

Someday.

blakemasters:

Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 1 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are my own. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s entirely.

CS183: Startup—Notes Essay—April 2

Purpose and Preamble

We might describe our world as having retail sanity, but wholesale madness….

Why can’t we all be friends. 

This move seems to weaken HBO the most. As it identifies Netflix a true threat to their business. 

parislemon:

The first step in war: sever all ties. 

I’m shocked to see a Google VP argue the point that the internet is not a human. Strategically I would think Google would want more people around the world to have access to the web.

I thought this was an interesting analogy from the article. 

For example, at one time if you didn’t have a horse it was hard to make a living. But the important right in that case was the right to make a living, not the right to a horse. Today, if I were granted a right to have a horse, I’m not sure where I would put it.

Fascinating article by the Economist ”How to be a dictator” with lot’s of good nuggets. This comparison of CEO’s as a dictators is particularly relevant to the current state of our economy. 

Absolutely they are. All corporations are run like this. The bonuses are handed out to the people who determine the fate of the CEO. It’s a tiny number of people—ten to 20. There are very few shareholder revolts that work. Most leaders are deposed internally. This is why corporations pay huge bonuses.

Notes on sausage and pâté making.

Adding this to my to do list. Bacon, salmon, sausage and jerky.

This thing is crazy. Lets you fly on water like a super hero. Looks like a total blast. Only €4900.

notesfromanewlibya:

According to my estimates, the Bhutanese refugee community in Portland has served me 80-100 meals in the last two years.

In my failed attempts at welcoming them to our country I’ve served them 3 times, I believe.

And now, adding insult to injury…this.

Thanksgiving has been on the…