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Facebook is Going Public

I'll take a peek at Facebook's IPO filing, but just a peek. Nutshell: Facebook is making money and hundreds of its employees will probably end 02012 as millionaires. the S-1 starts with: 845M monthly active users; 2.7B Likes & Comments per day; 250M photo uploads per day; 100B "friendships."

SEC.gov::Registration Statement on Form S-1

I can read most people's signatures, but Mark Zuckerberg's would have me stumped... http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000119312512034517/g287954zuckerberg_sig.jpg

[02 February 2012, top]

I am a Blogger

I've been blogging since the fall of 1997 and I agree with much of of the following: TechnicalBlogging.com::Why Every Professional Should Consider Blogging

I strongly agree with #3 ("blogging can provide you with a repository for your knowledge"), but #6 ("blogging can provide you with a second income") has never been true for me. I've also thought that #10 ("blogging can help you reach and teach a wide audience") should be true, but I have not been able to make it work.

[30 January 2012, top]

English Wikipedia Shutdown To Protest SOPA

Google's logo on 18 January 2012...

O'Reilly went black on 18 January 2012 to protest SOPA and PIPA...

[18 January 2012, top]

The Wikipedia Hits 11; Happy Wikipedia Day

I am not a Wikipedian, but I am a Wikipedia user and supporter. Happy 11th Wikipedia Day. {http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Day} [15 January 2012, top]

O'Reilly and Newmark On SOPA

Complicated legal topics are beyond my processing capabilities and I find SOPA complicated. Tim O'Reilly has been "spreading the knowledge of innovators" since 01978 and I am following his lead... Plus.Google.com::TimOReilly::Further thoughts on SOPA, and why Congress shouldn't listen to lobbyists

Hear, hear! "If Congress isn't knowledgeable enough to make that determination, they need to be consulting independent experts, not lobbyists for one side or the other." -- Tim O'Reilly

Craig Newmark is another one of those "white hat" guys that I like to follow. "SOPA and PIPA have tremendous lobbying dollars behind them..." -- Craig Newmark in http://www.craigslist.org/about/SOPA

[14 January 2012, top]

Here Come New Generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs)

ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is accepting applications for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs).

From ICANN.org. 

   "In the 1980s, seven gTLDs (.com, .edu, .gov, .int, .mil, .net, 
    and .org) were created. Domain names may be registered in three 
    of these (.com, .net, and .org) without restriction; the other 
    four have limited purposes."

13 more gTLDs were added between 2001 and 2003. 

   "Four of the new TLDs (.biz, .info, .name, and .pro) are unsponsored. 
    The other three new TLDs (.aero, .coop, and .museum) are sponsored. 
    In 2003, ICANN initiated a process that resulted in the introduction 
    of six new TLDs (.asia, .cat, .jobs, .mobi, .tel and .travel) that 
    are sponsored."

The dot-xxx gTLD came along in 2011.

MarketingLand.com::What You Need To Know About The New Top Level Domains

[13 January 2012, top]

Is Access To the Internet a Human Right?

Vinton Cerf is one of my E.F. Huttons (he's a member of the GDT::DreamTeam). In 02002, Cerf published RFC 3271 titled "The Internet is for Everyone" in which he wrote: "Internet is for everyone - even Martians!" For the most part I agree with Cerf that "technology is an enabler of rights, not a right itself."

NYTimes.com::Internet Access Is Not a Human Right

IETF.org::RFC 3271: The Internet is for Everyone

Not everyone agrees with Cerf. IEET.org::The Internet is a Human Right! Vinton G. Cerf is Mistaken

[07 January 2012, top]

About the Internet Observer

The Internet Observer is a blog about the Internet. It is updated on a random basis and covers a wide array of Internet topics such as privacy, security, browser usage, server usage, domain name speculation, e-commerce and so on. The following blurb is about the Internet Observer.

Because of the Internet is constantly evolving this blog could be updated continuously. The primary objective of the Internet Observer is to learn about Internet. The blog tries to open our eyes to just how powerful the Internet is and to help us realize that the Internet is here to stay. We are becoming a "networked" society and if you use the Internet, then you are a member of the cyber-community. If users of the Internet are Internet-literate, then the Internet will be a better place for all of us to work, live and play.

The Internet Observer was started August of 1998 and on 1 January 2012 it contained 697 postings. Reviewing archived Internet Observer postings provides one man's (i.e. Thurman's) history of the Internet.

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