- NPD: WAAS Up with Cisco’s WAN Optimization Initiative?
- ArsTechnica: Venice Project Goes Beta
- ZDNet.co.uk: Skype worm spotted
- Jeff Pulver Blog: Jeff Pulver Removed from Wikipedia
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NPD: WAAS Up with Cisco’s WAN Optimization Initiative?
Cisco shook things up in late 2006 with the introduction of WAAS-short for Wide Area Application Services-technology that is transparent to the underlying network infrastructure. According to Cisco, WAAS combines WAN optimization, acceleration of TCP-based applications, and Cisco’s Wide Area File Services (WAFS) in a single appliance or blade.
I know. It’s a horrible pun, and we are duly ashamed.
ArsTechnica: Venice Project Goes Beta
The Venice Project’s gondola is gliding right along. The new P2P video-streaming service recently rolled out a large-scale beta test, and it plans to go live early next year. The project is the latest brainchild of Skype and Kazaa developers Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, who hope to disrupt the online video market in the same way that they earlier rewrote the rules for music distribution and telephony.
Considering the difficulties that Kazaa and Skype have posed for IT administrators, Venice is certainly worth keeping an eye on. While we’re not opposed to the technology itself, (and, frankly, think it rocks on toast) we are interested in how much burden it can put on a corporate network. It also reminds me of ACTLabTV, this SourceForge project which has been mentioned at Slashdot.
Speaking of which…
ZDNet.co.uk: Skype worm spotted
Early reports indicate the worm sends messages via Skype Chat, which is an instant messenger tool, asking recipients to download and run a file called sp.exe.
SP, of course, stands for “Stupid Person.”
Jeff Pulver Blog: Jeff Pulver Removed from Wikipedia
Well, sometime during the past six hours, someone removed the Jeff Pulver entry in Wikipedia. While I wasn’t the one who created the entry in Wikipedia, I’ve enjoyed being listed in it since January 2005. Sometime yesterday someone requested that I should be “speedily deleted” from it. And now I’m gone.
The following is an editorial statement of Brian Boyko, editor of this blog, and does not necessarily represent the views of NetQoS as a whole. Those disagreeing with this view are welcome to post in our comments section: Jeff’s removal was part of a Wikipedia campaign to delete bloggers and other “non-notable” entries from Wikipedia. How a co-founder of Vonage could be deemed as non-notable is beyond me. This campaign is counterproductive at best, mean-spirited at worst. Wikipedia is not diminished by an abundance of information. Indeed, I’ve found that Wikipedia’s value is not necessarily in providing information on the “notable” topics – I have Brittanica for that! Indeed, it is the “long tail” of non-notable people, places, things, and ideas that make Wikipedia what it is, and in my case, it has been a useful (though by no means authoritative) tool in journalistic research – especially in the “niche” journalism field of network technology. I recreated the page and left my contact information there in the hope that someone will contact me to explain why the post is “speedily deleted” before doing so.
Wikipedia is quickly becoming one of the Seven Information-age Wonders of the World, and an important part of human cultural legacy to pass down to our progeny. Those who delete files from Wikipedia on the basis of “non-notoriety” (rather than for accuracy) seem to me to be the same kinds of people who tear pages out of library books they don’t agree with.
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