Apr
14
Products and Services – HomeNet Communications, Inc.
Filed Under Business Ideas, Resources, Principles, etc., Freedom, Government, Politics, etc., Technology
Ok, I’m mistaken on the last post. I figured this out thanks to a post by Jason on Paul’s blog.
I called the number from iProvo.net in January and was informed that the cheapest package was $89 and was bundled with 3 services. iprovo.net is not the place to go. The correct prices are at Products and Services – HomeNet Communications, Inc. and it turns out that they are very competitive.
Apr
14
Paul Allen embraces iProvo and I don’t
Filed Under Business Ideas, Resources, Principles, etc., Freedom, Government, Politics, etc., Technology
Paul Allen is championing iProvo and sites an article by Lawrence Lessig, but I have some questions about it.
Good article Lawrence, but I’m wondering if iProvo really increases the competition.
If the community is not purchasing the broadband at the price it is, how does the government expect the demand to appear at an even higher price (albeit faster Internet speeds) when many in the community are surviving with their dial up?
I see the argument for it if we consider Internet a public good like roads, but I’m more concerned that Provo expects to finance this service through paying customers. They haven’t snagged me and I’m a “high speed user.” My Vonage, Comcast combination (about $68 per month) blows their least expensive plan out of the water ($89) since I have no interest in cable television. I realize that the iProvo Internet is faster and better, but for at home use, Comcast works great and I don’t care about the extra speed when it costs me another $20 per month. iProvo IS NOT COMPETITION FOR MY NEEDS. Won’t others feel like me about this? From what I understand, iProvo needs 30 percent of the entire city using their service to pay for it. With the current usage in the city, I’m just concerned I’ll be paying the bill for iProvo even if I don’t ever decide to use it.
So, my final question is, why is it a good thing for the local government to push iProvo when the private sector hasn’t demanded it?
I’d like a few reasons other than it’s super-fast and other tech talk. Is it really going to boost the amount of tech business in Provo and raise more money in taxes to pay for it? Historical examples? I’m uninformed and still open on this topic. I’m just not yet convinced iProvo is the best thing for Provo.
But, then again, it doesn’t really matter, the decision is made. I might as well just look for other ways I can use it even if it won’t have my home Internet use. Maybe it will be cheaper to set up a data center in Provo?
Apr
10
Which wireless do you prefer?
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I am researching wireless solutions. Let me know which you prefer because a cell phone does not work well for this.
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Mar
29
Start a company instead of a summer job
Filed Under Business Ideas, Resources, Principles, etc., Education and Love for Learning, General
Paul Graham’s summer founders program also has a link to starting a start up that is very good.
Mar
26
Google Blog Announces Code.Google.com
Filed Under Technology
Google has begun releasing libraries and other code into open source.
Mar
26
Unforgettable Biography becomes iMemoryBook
Filed Under Business Ideas, Resources, Principles, etc., Education and Love for Learning, Genealogy to Family History to FamilyLearn
Over the last couple weeks we have conducted focus groups and surveys about the Unforgettable Biography and the excercise has proven very useful. We have changed the name and tagline and rebuilt the website, improving it by leaps and bounds in ways that our customers want. The changes are receiving great reviews from our customers so far.
It’s now
www.iMemoryBook.com – collect a book of memories for someone special.
Even though we just released our site, the alexa ranking for today is 60,172, in the top 100,000. I predict this site and product will be a great one for FamilyLearn. Thanks to Paul for teaching me about focus groups.
Mar
23
Seth’s Blog: RSS Addict!
Filed Under Technology
I noticed Seth got stuck without bloglines for a while. I also noticed that he uses FireFox. Seth, there are some great RSS Extensions for FireFox that don’t require that you use Bloglines. I’m using WizzRSS and it works great. Just nice to have the RSS in my tools rather than going to another site. Like Bloglines, it keeps track of what I’ve read and what I haven’t. It gives me categories. The only advantage I see to bloglines is that you can have a category with multiple RSS feeds and when you click on the category, it lists all the feeds. This Wizz RSS reader requires that you click on one feed at a time.
An advantage to Wizz RSS is that you can click on your feeds on the left in your tools and it opens the link in your browser window (rather than spawning a new window like bloglines.
The final advantage, you can export your RSS feed structure to another reader or import from another reader. You’re not tied to it when you’ve spent time organizing your feeds.
Mar
18
Another MBA Book List
Filed Under Business Ideas, Resources, Principles, etc., Education and Love for Learning
The 30 Book MBA in entrepreneurship
Mar
17
Impact of OpenSearch
Filed Under General
Vertical Search Engines are pouring onto A9.com after they released OpenSearch and I ask myself how this will impact the web. From an application stand point, it’s giving me an API to every single little search engine out there that chooses to do this. Amazon is getting all these sites to build an API to their content. This has exciting potential in building useful applications. But as always, I can see SPAMMERS exploiting these APIs as well. I’ll enjoy the benefits of the former. Nice move A9.
Mar
17
A9, Amazon’s search engine has just released OpenSearch that allows search engines from specific topics publish their search results on the new Amazon search engine. Paul found out about it and wanted to publish WorldHistory.com’s database there. I published it last night. Not that difficult to do. Try the search engine out and add WorldHistory.com to your search tabs. It returns great historical dates.
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