Wednesday, February 18, 2004

> Paolo Valdemarin: How many times have you read about weblogs breaking google's PageRank? I don't think it's true, however I guess that a symptom of this should be that I'm the first Paolo on google, while I'm definetly not the most known, famous nor powerful Paolo of the world (or the web). Well... I have just figured out that the same is happening on Altavista and Yahoo. Given these results, it looks like Altavista and Yahoo are chasing Google in terms of ranking technology. Which also mean that switching search engine might not be as bad as it could seem. (yeah, this is a totally egosurfing oriented post ;-)
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> Kevin Werbach: I've been invited to testify next Tuesday before the Senate Commerce Committee on voice over IP. I'll post more details when I get the formal invitation. I expect a more challenging environment than the FCC hearing in December. Some members of Congress are worried that, unless VOIP is subject to legacy telecom regulation, grave damage will be done to universal service, public safety, and national security. This is simply not the case, but the concerns raise legitimate issues. We need to separate fact from fiction, and social policy from the demands of special interests.
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> Jon Udell: At ETech (which I unfortunately could not attend) there was a presentation entitled real world semantics that is close in spirit to my own recent experimentation. The presenters were Technorati's Kevin Marks and Tantek Celik, who fought the good fight to bring quality CSS support to Microsoft's now-abandoned MSIE/Mac. Phrases they use to define real world semantics: "emerging semantic (x)html", "adoption by 'real people'", "beyond academics and theoretical discussions." Exactly...
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