A new top level domain (TLD) is being proposed to B’ecause’ I CAN as a safe alternative to existing domain name space. The “.pinkbunny” domain will be aimed at those organizations requiring a high level of trust and security of their websites, such as kids with pink bunnies, those who may have lost a pink bunny and other critical infrastructure sites that deal with pink bunnies.
The proposal is that organizations successfully registering a site within the “.pinkbunny” domain space would need to undergo a thorough background check and also adhere to a number of strict security requirements such as photographic proof of said pink bunny and regular visits to the vet for checkups to ensure no virus infections. Any sites not adhering to the security policies would be disconnected. B(ecause) I CAN is currently reviewing submissions for new TLDs and is expected to publish its results over the coming weeks.
I have always believed in my notion that we live on the crest of (various) information waves. Anything that will save us from living within a single distracted minute is a good thing. ThinkUp can backup your social network data that’s flowing backward off the waves and out of site as you surf towards the infinit shore. ThinkUp analyzes all the data it collects. ThinkUp gives you insights and information previously the domain of the social networks and not shared with you.
ThinkUp is (today) still a bit more geek oriented than click and go user friendly. For someone that cares about their data (analysis) and has an Amazon AWS account – very simple to install, run, and setup as the documentation is some of the best and most directly useful that I have ever read. AWS Get Started @ ThinkUp.
For me the best page to read was this one about the inspiration(s) for ThinkUP. I had no idea that even 3/4 of those companies/services existed. I found it a quick guide to the current ‘state of the web’ for the core ideas ThinkUp has formed around. I am glad to say I stand with ThinkUp as “the one” of these many I may be able to contribute to in the future.
Seems when Rogers did the magic auto renew stuff with apple iTunes or however it is glued together, it all fell apart. I give my experience of auto renew an epic FAIL. July 1st long weekend started Thursday and my iPad 3G stopped working the day before. I am going on a 4 day weekend with 8 geeks that do not yet have iPads. Who each influence 10 to 100+ geeks. They all still don’t have iPads (and none will likely have Rogers 3G iPads). Of all things I am posting this from a computer with a keyboard – how painfully near real time / out of touch is that! I could not bring myself to “show it off” when it had no network access. It was camping in the woods – wifi was distant. 3G would have worked (iPhone had no issues). Several *611 calls have enabled me to talk to many friendly people – none of which have resolved the fact that I have no 3G wireless access via my iPad yet. I seem to have paid for 3G access. Just have not seen any on my iPad yet. It is July 5th today FYI, Rogers.
Rogers – where is the front page link to the solution I need? This did not affect anyone else?
Rogers – where is the email with the link to the fix I need? I have made phone calls…
Rogers where is the phone call and or voice mail telling me what to click to fix this? ou said someone would get back to me.
Apple where is my Bell or Telus SIM (Telus plan looks like it suxs, I’ll take Bell please). Consider sending one out to all iPad owners proactively and thus encourage a competitive mobile data market in Canada.
Rogers please refund me all the missed days – still missing… and credit me a good chunk if I am going to stick around.
Bell, I am probably asking Rogers to get out of my iPad and I’d like to invite you in. Call me.
UPDATE: July 8th – no 3G data yet. Was given a ticket number for the affected users. I assumed they’d put me on a list of iPads to fix when I called them on June 30th… but calling again on July 6th(?) got me on the list (again?). They are keeping a list – are you on the list?
UPDATE: July 12th – no 3G data yet. The main ticket number provided to me was PT00016046 if anyone has any ideas on how to move this along – that’d be nice.
UPDATE: July 17th – OK I woke up today and 3G is now working on my iPad. How’d that magic happen? Not sure. A re-boot helped it sync time properly (was a few minutes off). Now – I have 13 days remaining on my 30 days with zero ability to use data for those days gone by – there has to be something that will just magically fix that too? Ready and waiting for the clock to be reset. It is not my idea of fun to hang out on a support line. Nor is it my idea of fun to be called and told to call support (and maybe later in the day to avoid the wait time). As much as I use rogers (three accounts) I am not wishing this experience on others. Currently the display on the “cellular data” link says it expires on 07/30/10. I hope this date moves – I dread calling yet again, but perhaps I may, just to voice the concept that our agreement has not been met (me data, you money).
Working from the iPad today. Not bad. I can find a way to hold it that works well in most positions. Far better than a laptop in every couch position. For the types of tasks I imagine the iPad to do well with – it is great at home so far. Email and web – and the all important links in email to web – these tasks are very easy to manage on the iPad. Nice big screen the screen rotation lock is a great addition. Watching the last 12 hours of an eBay auction also easy to do. Migrating from an iPhone to this iPad is not going to be difficult.
Apple may have in fact sold a competing product to the iPhone. For those of us that find the size ok to have with us all the time why would an iPhone be required? A simple voice only phone will now probably suffice. I guess it all comes down to how do you want to balance your freedom. By freedom I mean, to which piper will you pay for voice and data plans. iPad is another choice. It’s 3G appears not to be locked to a provider offering even more choice. In fact fostering actual competition once the different vendors see the need to acquire these new customers with unlocked devices. Not free but a new unlocked freedom may bring a breath of fresh air to the Canadian wireless market if nothing else.
I’ll be looking for a pay as you go SIM on a USA plan when I next visit the states. To prove this device is 1) not locked and 2) I do indeed have this new freedom. In fact over the next few months I’ll try to have a month to month plan with Rogers, Telus and Bell and thus exercise my new freedom. At the very least I plan to watch how the plans settle in. Once they all become contracts for longer periods and start to look like current cell contracts, then I’ll give up my hope for freedom. Here’s to that never happening and a real competitive landscape forming instead.
I do like the iPad 3G in Canada. I have high hopes for it to make a difference in how people work and play. It will make a difference in mine, the month to month data plan already has.
Clearly with a few clicks I should be able to make your rain drop OS load and run concurrently on my machine. A rain drop OS is of course one little tiny part of a cloud. Minuscule in fact. Google you are the one that will enable us to monetize that idle CPU, I know you are. It is not difficult to imagine, is it? A little memory, a little cpu, some drive space and network. There must be a process out there that needs running – now! Keep the new data center costs flat – and absorb the spikes – right on my machine. Scaled to a billion instantly grow to a gazillion – faster.
Now with an open hypervisor in Chrome OS, clearly others should be able to take a run at super scale – I mean there are still aliens out there to be found, genomes to be processed. Won’t this all just be fun!
Just saying – RSR – Reality Show Rage is back. They are about to vote off the last American Idol. This will be fun. At least RSR is not yet a crime. However it is a growing problem we should all take a little more seriously than we do. This post may imply RSR is somewhat of a joke. It is not. There should be a Wikipedia page on it by now, but we all just ignore it, pretend it does not exist. How many items will be thrown across the room tonight by those engrossed in a trivial staged and persistent “reality show”. Millions of potentially intelligent, yet brain washed TV viewers (who also watch Nancy Grace, OMG) are about to explode tonight with the final RSR fireworks.
Support RSR research – vote with your money and buy the shirt – when you have it on NEXT TIME – your vote will count and your Idol will WIN !
(Idol can be replaced with survivor, handyman, biggest loser, amazing racer)
This vid says it all – bend it if you need it.
Grade 1 will never be the same. SightWords is a new iPhone / iTouch application just released for publication. Pending approvals will soon be on the iTunes store for unlimited downloads.
See the new product page and look for links to the application once it is available.
Yet another update – and yes we are not happy that there was yet another significant change to the portals. The good news is that every time the portals change we get the opportunity to think about how we can also improve our code base and make it more flexible and robust.
If you have been watching, version 1.7 logs you in just fine – but fails to dismiss the please wait popup. The final login page and how we detect it is now more robust in version 1.8. We just posted it to the iTunes site and the approvals can take up to 14 days.
Please use 1.7 and just close it once you see that the login has been done behind the popup – you are on the Internet. Opening the program a second time will load your session page and you can logout when you need to.
