zondag 15 juni 2008
De internetmeter
Al langer vraag ik me af hoe het model van een vast maandbedrag voor ogenschijnlijk ongelimiteerd datagebruik op lange termijn houdbaar kan zijn. Dit aangezien de doelstellingen van klant (internetter) en leverancier (ISP) niet gelijk zijn. Om de opbrengsten per klant te maximeren zal de ISP, nadat het abonnement is afgesloten, het daadwerkelijk datagebruik van de klant binnen de perken willen houden. Er is geen financiele incentive om de klant te stimuleren juist meer gebruik te maken van het internet. Dit geldt voor zowel kabel, ADSL als mobiel internet. Simpelweg omdat bandbreedte schaars is. Dus het prijsmodel moet veranderen.
woensdag 21 mei 2008
Jouw attentie is geld waard
Dat zou geen nieuws moet zijn, maar de stap die Microsoft vandaag neemt om gebruikers van haar zoekmachine te betalen is een eerste stap waar er meerdere zullen volgen. Gebruikers zullen directer beloond gaan worden in ruil voor informatie over wie ze zijn en wat ze willen. Dat is (nog) niet het model dat Microsoft zal hanteren, maar het wijst wel die kant op. En dat biedt kansen voor partijen die dit kunnen faciliteren...
"That is the idea behind a new Microsoft program that will return money to online users who find and buy selected products through its Live Search engine. It's an unusual move that illustrates the lengths to which the Redmond company is willing to go in its struggle to gain ground on the Internet search king."
"That is the idea behind a new Microsoft program that will return money to online users who find and buy selected products through its Live Search engine. It's an unusual move that illustrates the lengths to which the Redmond company is willing to go in its struggle to gain ground on the Internet search king."
zondag 18 mei 2008
Contact zonder data
Tom beschrijft een nabije toekomst waarin een van de rollen van social networking services, en ook die van diensten als RealMee (zie bijvoorbeeld mijn persoonlijke homepage), duidelijk gemaakt wordt. Tegelijkertijd maakt het een deel van de complexe data-portabilty discussie overbodig aangezien het meenemen en uitwisselen van contactdata (die van jouzelf en die van jouw vrienden) niet meer nodig is. Met een beetje geluk zal het ook de oplossing voor spam zijn;-)
"You maintain one copy of your master contact information in the (un)social directory – all of the possible ways to contact you. Everyone else has a similar master contact page which is visible only to her. When two people meet and exchange (un)social contact info, what they are actually doing is exchanging permissions but NOT contact information. Permissions are always revocable. This needs an example."
"You maintain one copy of your master contact information in the (un)social directory – all of the possible ways to contact you. Everyone else has a similar master contact page which is visible only to her. When two people meet and exchange (un)social contact info, what they are actually doing is exchanging permissions but NOT contact information. Permissions are always revocable. This needs an example."
donderdag 8 mei 2008
Geen uitvinding vernoemd naar de echte uitvinder
Weer wat nieuws geleerd vandaag, 'Stigler's Law'. Ik kan me eindeloos blijven opwinden over de destructiviteit van het merkenrecht, patent en octrooisysteem, maar gelukkig ben ik niet de enige;-)
"Gladwell uses this to talk up what Myhrvold is doing, suggesting that Intellectual Ventures is really about continuing that process, getting those ideas out there -- but he misses the much bigger point: if these ideas are the natural progression, almost guaranteed to be discovered by someone sooner or later, why do we give a monopoly on these ideas to a single discoverer? Myhrvold's whole business model is about monopolizing all of these ideas and charging others (who may have discovered them totally independently) to actually do something with them. Yet, if Gladwell's premise is correct (and there's plenty of evidence included in the article), then Myhrvold's efforts shouldn't be seen as a big deal. After all, if it wasn't Myhrvold and his friends doing it, others would very likely come up with the same thing sooner or later."
"Gladwell uses this to talk up what Myhrvold is doing, suggesting that Intellectual Ventures is really about continuing that process, getting those ideas out there -- but he misses the much bigger point: if these ideas are the natural progression, almost guaranteed to be discovered by someone sooner or later, why do we give a monopoly on these ideas to a single discoverer? Myhrvold's whole business model is about monopolizing all of these ideas and charging others (who may have discovered them totally independently) to actually do something with them. Yet, if Gladwell's premise is correct (and there's plenty of evidence included in the article), then Myhrvold's efforts shouldn't be seen as a big deal. After all, if it wasn't Myhrvold and his friends doing it, others would very likely come up with the same thing sooner or later."
zondag 27 april 2008
Hyves van binnen
Lees dit interview in de Gentoo Linux Newsletter met Ramon van Alteren voor een kijkje achter de schermen bij Hyves met wat leuke feiten en cijfertjes.
"GMN: What is the scale of your website?
Ramon: We currently have over 6 million registered users and counting, peak performance is currently at 150+ million page views per day (13 million per hour). These are filtered page views, raw http requests on our web farm are well over 20.000 req/sec.
On our mysql database backend, we serve roughly 100.000 actions/sec at peak performance. Aside from the web frontend and the database backend we have a very large file-storage for media that our users upload. The total used storage totals around roughly about 280 Terabytes. All in all with all hosts accounted for we have 1800 servers most of them with 2 or 4 cores each. All of these run Gentoo Linux. :-)"
"GMN: What is the scale of your website?
Ramon: We currently have over 6 million registered users and counting, peak performance is currently at 150+ million page views per day (13 million per hour). These are filtered page views, raw http requests on our web farm are well over 20.000 req/sec.
On our mysql database backend, we serve roughly 100.000 actions/sec at peak performance. Aside from the web frontend and the database backend we have a very large file-storage for media that our users upload. The total used storage totals around roughly about 280 Terabytes. All in all with all hosts accounted for we have 1800 servers most of them with 2 or 4 cores each. All of these run Gentoo Linux. :-)"
zaterdag 19 april 2008
Niet genoeg bandbreedte
Het is een discussie die op deze blog al meerdere malen gevoerd is, maar ondanks het heilige geloof van sommigen lijkt het toch echt zo te zijn dat we snel tegen de capaciteitsgrenzen van het internet gaan aanlopen. Met name omdat we allemaal TV op het web willen kijken. En dan is 40% van de Europeanen nog niet eens online....
"Cicconi added that more demand for high-definition video will put an increasing strain on the Internet infrastructure. "Eight hours of video is loaded onto YouTube every minute. Everything will become HD very soon, and HD is 7 to 10 times more bandwidth-hungry than typical video today. Video will be 80 percent of all traffic by 2010, up from 30 percent today," he said."
"Cicconi added that more demand for high-definition video will put an increasing strain on the Internet infrastructure. "Eight hours of video is loaded onto YouTube every minute. Everything will become HD very soon, and HD is 7 to 10 times more bandwidth-hungry than typical video today. Video will be 80 percent of all traffic by 2010, up from 30 percent today," he said."
donderdag 10 april 2008
Je bent groot en je moet wat
Is het een goede zaak dat Google, Microsoft en Yahoo! alle leuke en innovatieve clubjes opkopen? En voor wie is dat een goede zaak? Ik krijg zelf niet het idee dat de betreffende diensten er beter op geworden zijn, en ik vraag me ook echt af of de toenmalige eigenaren achteraf gezien blij zijn met hun verkoop. Hetzelfde geldt voor de kopers uiteraard;-)
"The Internet is decomposing into a vast array of micro-services that we, the end user, stitches together to make our own unique web experience. It is the de-portalization of the Internet and it is very real. And yet, these large behemoths are trying to do their normal consolidation play on the Internet. First of all, it's not going to work. They are destroying value with all of their M&A efforts and the bigger they get, the more value they will destroy, for them and their shareholders."
"The Internet is decomposing into a vast array of micro-services that we, the end user, stitches together to make our own unique web experience. It is the de-portalization of the Internet and it is very real. And yet, these large behemoths are trying to do their normal consolidation play on the Internet. First of all, it's not going to work. They are destroying value with all of their M&A efforts and the bigger they get, the more value they will destroy, for them and their shareholders."
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