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Google on Australian Broadband Future

The Government put a Request for Proposal out to public comment on the future of Australian Broadband. This is being done under a project known as the NBN,
National Broadband Network. I read many of these proposals, and of the lot, Only Google’s addressed many of the important issues, such as Net Neturality, Peering Agreements/Internet Exchanges [...]


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7 July 2008 @ 7pm

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OS X Command Line Fun With Growl

Growl is a lot of fun on OS X. Once installed, a lot of applications become a lot more visible, in a good way. Notifications for things you want to know about. It’s very easy to add or remove programs from the list. You can even use Growl for remote monitoring over IP, not that [...]


Tag Based Access Control

Tags are considered “an important feature of many Web 2.0 services”. Anything content related is bound to have tagging facilities embedded. Yet, when it comes to granting access to published content, we are stuck with archaic, pre-web controls 1.
We are forced to squish people into access boxes. People nearly always have overlap, again, Reality is [...]


How the Australian Carriers Missed It

With the launch of the iPhone, a movement has begun—Mobile Open Internet Access. This movement is going to really hurt the Australian Telecommunications Industry due to their investment in The Walled Garden. I’ll demonstrate, from a slightly insider’s perspective, their extensive investment in this Walled Garden and how they got it wrong.
The Carrier’s Walled Garden [...]


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