If you’re still not up to speed on the “network neutrality” debate about the internet, and you’re not a hard-core techie, you can still find out what’s going on without being subjected to too much technobabble. A good starting point is a Washington Post piece titled The Coming Tug of War Over the Internet, but an easier-on-the-eyes one is this comic by Jen Sorensen at Slowpoke Comics, titled Web of Deception:
You’ve got to give “Peter”, whose answer for the algebra test question is shown below, some credit for at least being funny in the face of not knowing the binomial theorem:
By the bye, the answer is:
[Thanks to Adampsyche for the photo!]
This is just a quick note to congratulate Radiant Core, a company located just down the street from Tucows, who are also involved in Toronto’s BarCamp and Democamp. They’ve just announced that they’ve been retained by Mozilla to design and implement the official theme for the Firefox 2 release! Our heartiest congratulations to Jay and all the folks at Radiant Core!
It all boils down to this picture, taken in New York in February 2000:
The full explanation is on my work blog, in which I cover possible job moves for programmers.
Over at Tucows Farm, an entry about being both a developer and a marketer, with a link to a particularly intriguing entry in Seth Godin’s blog. That, and a little Photoshoppery…
Here comes another job-related entry (hence the cheesecake in the previous one). I’m not above “buying” my readers.
First, let me give you a couple of snippets from the press release:
TORONTO, CANADA (June 15, 2006) – Tucows Inc. (AMEX:TCX, TSX:TC) today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Mailbank.com Inc. (doing business as NetIdentity), a privately held, profitable business owning and managing a domain name portfolio that Tucows believes is one of the Internet’s largest collections of surname addresses.
This acquisition will allow Tucows to offer personalized Internet services through its channel of over 6,000 Internet access and hosting providers. The portfolio includes thousands of the most common surnames (such as smith.net) and will be used to enhance Tucows’ email, web publishing and domain services. For example, Tucows’ channel partners will be able to offer their customers personalized email addresses such as allie@schiffler.com or blog and web addresses like www.dirk.landstrom.com.
According to NetIdentity, their portfolio of domain names covers around 60 to 70 percent of the surnames in North America. As Samuel L. Jackson would put it:
In addition to the press release, there’s also a FAQ which explains the deal quite clearly. (You’ll have to click an “I understand the terms and conditions” button.)
Even better than the FAQ is the podcast (you’ll have to click an “I understand the terms and conditions” button) which features an interview with Tucows CEO Elliot Noss and an interviewer who’ll go far on that velvety-smooth voice of his.
(The podcast is 17MB in size and runs 24 minutes, 43 seconds in length.)