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the olds
Vint Cerf's dream of porn in space comes true
NASA deemed successful a month-long test of image transfers to and from the Epoxi space probe, currently 20 million miles away somewhere near Mars. Alleged Internet inventor Vint Cerf helped NASA design the enabling technology, known as Delay Tolerant Networking, a decade ago. (I know: What does that guy do now?) More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by Incognito: So, uh, what happens in space stays in space? Can you get sticky keyboards in zero gravity? I really don't... 1 Responses | Other threads
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rumormonger
Has Obama already picked his CTO?
Eric Schmidt said he won't be heading to Washington as President Obama's chief technologist. A tipster who claims inside info tells us that America's CTO of Change has already been chosen. Not surprising, but who? Who who who? More »
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America's CTO
Doerr pushes Bill Joy on Obama
At yesterday's Web 2.0 Summit, Kleiner Perkins whiz John Doerr — a man so successful he can get away with wearing the same three ties for ten years — told attendees that Barack Obama should skip over Googlers Eric Schmidt and Vint Cerf, and instead hire Kleiner Perkins partner and Sun co-founder Bill Joy as his national chief technology officer. Obama's job description was focused more on counter-terrorism intelligence and IT supremacy. Doerr thinks that's misguided: “The most important thing he's got to do is kick-start a huge amount of research and innovation in energy." Energy tech is Doerr's current focus at Kleiner, of course. But it's unclear to me whether Joy is now a leader or a dilettante on the topic. Doerr also suggested the U.S. "staple a green card to the diploma" to keep foreign-born engineering students from going back home after graduation. Throw in a fixed-rate mortgage for gossip bloggers, and I'll endorse the whole package.
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By Paul BoutinComment by Rachel Marsden: Hey you deluded web 2.0/socialmedia assholes, unless you can root out Bin Laden from his cave using IT skillz, you... 1 Responses | Other threads
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toogle many googlers
Twitter guy proves Vint Cerf really needs a job
Alex Payne, who manages Twitter's API, posted a thumbsucking essay on Tuesday titled The Internet's on Shaky Ground. Payne seems to have reverse-engineered blowhard New York Times columnist Tom Friedman's formula for a big-picture think piece: Take a self-contradictory slogan like "Worse Is Better." Lay out your case: The glorious past, the beautiful future, the crummy now. Don't advocate a specific solution, though. Say that a question remains. Ask that question. (Payne: "The question remains: What will it take to push us forward?") Then kick back and wait for Vint Cerf to show up and supply the actual details from memory. Did someone say the Internet was built on shaky ground? Cerf rolls his eyes in exasperation, but only two or three times max: More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by ciscokidinsf: As it was said before said, Vint Cerf is just VP in charge of having invented the internet He did... 1 Responses | Other threads
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McCain bad for Internet, says Googler who invented Internet
There are two acceptable political affiliations if you work at Google: Hyperlibertarian Paultard, or reflexively Democratic Obamamaniac. Vint Cerf, one of the guys who actually created the Internet back when it was a Pentagon-sponsored research project, and now works at Google as vice president in charge of being the guy who created the Internet, has put himself in the latter camp by officially endorsing Obama. Since Cerf is such a powerful voice, he might as well be speaking on behalf of Google itself. But the reason he's throwing Google in the Obama camp is painfully shallow and self-serving. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by kimbjo: The concept of 'net neutrality' is a PR scam. If google doesn't like the treatment by the ISP's, let them... 1 Responses | Other threads
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your privacy is an illusion
Privacy advocates nearly publish guide to carjacking Google executive
In a response to Google's recent assertion that "complete privacy does not exist," the National Legal and Policy Center released a step-by-step guide [PDF] to finding an unnamed "senior executive" from the company. While it doesn't reveal the home address, it does show a number of intersections where one might lie in wait to assault or kidnap said executive. Using Google Search, Maps and Street View, naturally. More »
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Vint Cerf: Google to "assist Yahoo with its experiement"
Microsoft is already telling advocacy groups say the Google-Yahoo agreement will "limit choices for advertisers and publishers" and "destroy a competitive alternative." For its Google deployed its Chief Guy Who Invented the Internet, Vint Cerf, to tell reporters there's nothing to be afraid of. "In the case of Yahoo, the company believes that it will be beneficial to assist Yahoo with its experiment," Reuters reports Cerf cooing at a press event. "That's all this is: a nonexclusive arrangement to allow Yahoo to use at their discretion some of our advertising capability." Ask how Google will respond to Microsoft's claims that the search giant now controls 90 percent of all search, Cerf said, "We simply say we're trying to encourage competition in the environment and we'll take steps to assist where that seems to be possible." Sold? Remember, this guy invented the Internet. (Photo by Charles Haynes)
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Comment by ScalaWag: @The_Chris2.0: Google, like Microsoft in the days old, has always encouraged competition. The kind when they find someone else's market... more » | Other threads
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Vint Cerf lied to us
In December Internet evangelist Vint Cerf promised that Eric Schmidt would furnish any inquiring journalist with an official statement within an hour, regardless of where the Google CEO happened to be. Well, that was a lie. And Cerf now admits it. Google Blogoscoped, which originally unearthed the pledge, diligently awaited Schmidt's reply for over a month. Fed up, it asked Cerf why Schmidt had dissed the blog. "Rapid responses might only reasonably be expected for on-the-record corporate policy questions," said Cerf. Corporate policy, such as the speed with which the CEO will respond to questions?
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Comment by BobDope: Nobody at Google can write an auto-responder to spew meaningless PR BS? more » | Other threads
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The coming inflight Wi-Fi nonapocalypse
With airlines preparing to unleash Internet access upon the skies, we're entering what Web evangelist Vint Cerf calls "a ticklish area." Confined airplane cabins has generated concern that flights are going to transform into nonstop phone discussions of the latest online porn releases — so much so that airlines are considering employing content filters and banning VOIP calls. More »
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Comment by rlreif: people are stupid... porno mags have been sold in airport news stands since before i was born (im 30) even in... more » | Other threads
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careers
Vint Cerf reveals how to land a job at Google
Anyone can program, but can they dance? Vint Cerf, Google VP and Internet evangelist, says that when applying for a job, it helps if you have a special ability like "being member of an ice skating group, or having gone through vocals training, or having an interest in animals." In other words, trying to get a job at Google is just like applying to college.
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Comment by mblevin: If anyone writes "ice skating" on their resume, I'd bring them in to an interview just to punch them in... more » | Other threads
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Eric Schmidt fails to deliver on promise
Golly, Dr. Schmidt! I know you're busy being the CEO of Google, but your chief Internet evangelist, Vint Cerf, promised me that no matter where you were in the world, you would be ready within an hour to provide an official statement to any journalist who asked for one. And I believed him, because he invented the Internet. And why couldn't you? I mean, you took the lead in promoting the Java language at Sun Microsystems. You were the CEO of Novell, and everyone said that company was going to die, but here it is, still limping along! And you made all those great decisions at Google, even though no one there can quite pin down for me what they were. Why, gosh, you're even donating a transit hub to the folks on Nantucket! Is there nothing you can't do? More » -
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ICANN named New Zealander Peter Dengate Thrush as its chairman to replace Google's Vint Cerf, who now has even less to do. Thrush will be ICANN's first non-American chairman. But that shouldn't keep the world from hating us; the U.S. Department of Commerce maintains veto power over the organization's decisions. [Sydney Morning Herald] -
toogle many googlers
Google's chief navelgazer
More details are in on Internet godfather and Google "employee" Vint Cerf's comfy search-engine sinecure. After confusing the press and financial analysts last week with an obviously winging-it speech about Google's future in space, Cerf, the company's "chief Internet evangelist," has gone on the record with detailed plans on how to waste shareholder money now that he's stepping down from his role as ICANN chairman. For starters, he's writing a book of poetry. More » -
toogle many googlers
Earth to Vint Cerf — get back to work
If anyone deserves a gig where he can sit back, pontificate and do very little work, it's Vint Cerf, the man who helped come up with the basic network protocol of the Internet. Lucky for him, he got exactly that when Google hired him on as its "Internet evangelist" in September 2005. What does an Internet evangelist do? Make shit up. More »
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Comment by RachelClarke: He's been giving the same speech with variations for at least the last 6 months - i saw it at... more » | Other threads
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Father of the Internet hates streaming video, too
Vint Cerf, founding father of the Internet and Google's underemployed Net evangelist, has a theory: The Internet will kill the television set. The problem is that online-video initiatives are focused on streaming media. Cerf proposes a shift towards downloadable, Internet-delivered content — called "IPTV," after the Internet Protocol Cerf helped invent. IPTV would work more on the TiVo model of record now, watch later. According to him, it would then be possible to serve content faster than real-time — it would take 16 seconds to download an hour's worth of video on a 1 gigabit-per-second connection — which would eliminate strain on service providers and placate consumers seeking videos without jagged images and distorted sound. Or we could all just use BitTorrent.
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mysteries
What does Vint Cerf do at Google?
Vint Cerf, Google's Internet evangelist, really did invent the Internet. So we suppose it's okay for him to coast a little. But as with anyone with the word "evangelist" on his business card, we can't help but wonder what, exactly he does. A profile in the Times of London does little to clarify matters. Apparently Cerf worries about the security of Web browsers and operating systems — never mind that Google doesn't make browsers or operating systems. Cerf got his job by emailing Google CEO Eric Schmidt and asking if he needed any help. Schmidt replied, "Yes." We're thinking Schmidt might be wondering now if he should have been more specific — and if Cerf could be contributing to Google's little payroll problem.
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By Owen ThomasComment by ResearchZilla: hey, at GHOSTSITES, it has been done - exactly what you're looking for,though nowhere near as good as the one... more » | Other threads
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codgers
Aging ace-fully: The cool and uncool old men of tech
NICK DOUGLAS — Look, I can dig old people. Just because I'm young, energetic and oversexed doesn't mean I'm not aware that some day I'll reach the doddering age of 25. But I know there's a way to keep my inner child, or at least my inner arrogant college junior, by watching the example of still-cool graybeards like Steve Jobs. Guys like Yahoo's awkward CEO Terry Semel, though, show that you can't earn cool just by trying hard. While some of the following lords of tech have kept their cool past age 50, some have turned into embarrassing old men. More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by Craig Newmark: folks, thanks! just back, getting caught up, will blog the gift basket maybe tomorrow on cnewmark.com. It includes the dvd, the... more » | Other threads
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web 2.0 con
Web 2.0 Con: Liveblogging Vint Cerf vs. Robert Pepper on Net Neutrality
At the Web 2.0 Summit, host John Battelle is moderating a debate between Internet god Vint Cerf (pictured; he invented the main protocol used on the Internet) and Cisco exec and former FCC adviser Bob Pepper over Net Neutrality. Battelle has introduced the debate by explaining how hard it was to find anyone who's against net neutrality. More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by DaveMcClure500Hats: ha! Vint Cert = The Architect. that is one of the best 'separated-at-birth' selections i've seen in awhile.... both visually,... more » | Other threads
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politics
Tony Blair meets the entire Silicon Valley pantheon
Unroll your conspiracy theory maps and pull out your markers — here are the Valley bigwigs who met with Tony Blair during the UK Prime Minister's recent visit to Silicon Valley, culled from the SF Chronicle and Mercury News. More » -
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Worst Corporate Evangelists Ever
After official Zooomr evangelist Thomas Hawk got all bitchy at a blogger for criticizing the photo sharing site that employs him, a reader asked me if he was the worst corporate evangelist ever. Not by a long shot! He's just one in a long tradition of awful evangelists. After the jump, we list them all. More » -
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Google suit disagrees with inventor of the Web, loses
It wasn't exactly a smackdown, but it didn't help Google exec Peter Norvig to challenge Tim Berners-Lee in a discussion on the Semantic Web. (The Semantic Web, by the way, is the Web 2.0 of four years ago.) More »
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A little chat with the Internet's daddy
In Internet time, men become gods even before death. In this vid, a lucky Kent State student gets to interview the Gandalf (okay, purist, the All Father) of the Internet, Vint Cerf. More » -
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While you were sleeping: If the terrorists attack, blame Boing Boing
While you were sleeping, More »
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