Month: October 2005

I love Chris Pirillo’s new search tool, Gada.Be.
I fired up the standard measurement on GrabPERF: “new york”

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I just de-activated the measurement, it was hanging the whole measurement system. I’ll fire it up again tomorrow and see if there is some improvement.

UPDATE: Gada.be has become usable, but performance does vary substantially.

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For all the people I know: Please get off the floor and stop laughing.

***Your Hidden Talent***
You’re super sensitive and easily able to understand situations.
You tend to solve complex problems in a flash, without needing a lot of facts.
Decision making is easy for you. You have killer intuition.
The right path is always clear, and you’re a bit of a visionary.
What’s Your Hidden Talent?
http://www.blogthings.com/whatsyourhiddentalentquiz/

Via: Jason Womack

Renee Blodgett confirms my fears about the Web 2.0 bubble starting. [here]
Hope you have a parachute or a soft spot to land…

GrabPERF is now officially back in the open: All data; All the time.
I hope you like some of the changes I have made in the site navigation pages. I am slowly adding new features when I can, so watch for a trickle of new items appearing.
GrabPERF is still up for sale. I can’t dedicate the time necessary to making this system world-class given my current responsibilities, unless I can find some serious sponsors to help out.
Enjoy, and let me know if you want your site added!

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Ummm…wow. Wonder if the Gizmodo gang is flaming mad yet…

Ok, I thought I was missing something about the Google Feed Reader. I thought it was clumsy and flashy and mostly usefless for the way I read blogs.
Chris Selland makes me feel less alone. [here]
Paul Kedrosky is not amused. [here]
Brad Hill says interesting, but call me when you’re ready. [here]
Bud at The Community Engine says that it is not user-friendly. [here]
Sean Coon: flashy AJAX + proprietary sandbox == Google wants to own your experience. [here]
GoogleÂ’s UX staff take a vacation, return to horror and destruction
I’m sticking with Rojo.

Technorati: google reader
IceRocket: google reader

Lifehacker points us all to Mayomi.

1. Ajax Rocks
2. MindJet better buy these guys quick or they will lose a lot of us who can’t afford MindManager

Technorati: mindmapping, ajax
IceRocket: mindmapping, ajax

UPDATE: Geek News Central sees it another way. They see Cogent as hitching a free ride and getting thrown off the bus finally. Either way, the bacbone providers are about to realize that they aren’t the ones with power anymore.
The lawsuits from this should be interesting, and are likely going to expose many of the dark edges of the connectivity market that will shock most people who use the Internet.

Cnet has the news here.
One of the sites most notably affected was the Boston Museum of Fine Arts — quoted in this story. So I took the MFA as a bellweather of when the Internet would return to normal.

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Using the GrabPERF system and one other measurement network, it appears that the Level3 and Cogent networks started speaking to each other again at approximately 16:00 EDT (20:00 GMT) today, with recovery times varying by company, backbone, and location.

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I was having a conversation on a completely unrelated matter with one of the journalists who covers the Internet space, and mentioned this event to him. He hadn’t heard of it (hey, I know how hard he works), but we both were kind of shocked that this could still happen.
A large backbone provider rarely does this just because they can; if that were the case, the Internet would be divided into petty fiefdoms where no one could talk to anyone else, which sounds awfully familiar to some of us who remember pre-Internet networks.
A large backbone provider does this to strengthen their position, and diminish that of their peering partner.
There is a lot of money being made on the Internet again. This breakage was, in my opinion, is a result of the Tier 1 backbone providers staking out their turf for what they see as another flow of big and stupid spending resulting from the frenzy around Web 2.0.
Level3 summarily terminated the peering arrangement in an attempt to marginalize Cogent, perhaps in an attempt create the impression that Cogent is less valuable to the Internet than “real” Tier 1 backbones.
What does this pre-emptive attack on Cogent’s reputation gain them? I think that the core reason is that Level3 may be trying to reduce the perceived market value of Cogent, making them a more vulnerable target for acquisition.
It will be interesting to watch what happens in a month when this flares up again.

IceRocket: cogent, level3, peering, internet
Technorati: cogent, level3, peering, internet

GrabPERF is slowly winding down as a public-facing entity. All that is left for non-subscribers are the Search and News Index Overviews.
I will continue to use the data as a demonstration tool, and graphs and data will dot my my blog posts.
And remember, the whole system is on the block; no reasonable offer will be dismissed.
Thanks for your comments and support over the last few months. It’s been a great run.