Monday, May 01, 2006 - Posts

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Page one center on this mornings NYTimes; New Microsoft Browser Raises Google's Hackles

This is quite an achievement for Google PR and I wonder how they do it. It must be Google's good old boy network, AOL, Sun and Firefox.

Now a days when Silicon Valley need something done they run to the EU in Brussels Belgium, not the capital city on the Potomac.....that must be the best search result they got by default.

This mornings NYTimes failed to mention that when you go to download Java for FREE and everybody on the internet today needs Java, by default you get for FREE the Google Toolbar. Can I get MSN Search on the Google Toolbar if I want it?

Do you want to download Macromedia's Flash for FREE  everybody on the internet today needs Flash, By default you get the Yahoo Toolbar for FREE, but can I get MSN search on the Yahoo Toolbar?

Google paid a billion dollars for top spot on AOL's Search bar, why? Who uses AOL in 2006?

FireFox earns hundreds of millions of dollars via Gooooooooogle ads as do thousands of bloggers, what do you think is their default search?

I use all the search engines and I compare and contrast the results as I look for the best results. So what's your default search?
posted Monday, May 01, 2006 8:11 AM by paul with 0 Comments

Identity Tax

The Internet Identity Workshop  starts today in Mountainview CA, but who are those guys?   Workshop Wiki

I met Kim Cameron  at MIX06, he's a guy who has put a lot of thought into Identity on the internet;

The LAWS OF IDENTITY,  The IDENTITY METASYSTEM,  INFOCARD DESIGN DECISIONS.

I've had an identity since the day I was born with a certificate to prove who I am and family to back it up. I have a Passport issued by the United States of America and a drivers licenses issued by the State of New Jersey each vouching that I am who I say I am.

Even though I know who I am I had to pay the governments of America and New Jersey for these documents and I need to renew them and pay again every few years. The amount of money I pay is much more then the cost of producing and issuing these documents, it is a source of revenue for our federal government and States. 

Some day the United States Congress will have a hearing and debate the issue of identity on the internet, a few Congress men and woman would like to shut the internet down because it's been nothing but trouble, maybe they will compromise and just shut it down at night...

Many in Congress have been looking for a way to Tax internet use for a long time, they are going to latch on to the issue of identity and they won't let go till they create a revenue stream.

posted Monday, May 01, 2006 5:53 AM by paul with 0 Comments