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Protect The Internet

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Recently, two bills have been introduced into Congress that – if passed – will do irreparable damage to the Internet, entrepreneurship, free speech, and job creation as a result of the continued entrepreneurial activity around the Internet. The bills – like many in Congress – are misleadingly named.

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How To Predict The Future

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Predicting Streaming Video and the Birth of the Spreadsheet. A big technical challenge we studied was piping streaming video over networks. It was difficult because we had limited bandwidth to send the bits through, and limited processing power to compress and decompress the video. Streaming video had finally made it.

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George Orwell Talks To Us From The Future About a Free and Open Internet

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I thought this was a powerful and clever video about the risks to the free and open Internet. I was happy to see Google launch their Take Action site last week about a Free and Open Internet. Vint Cerf (one of the actual creators of the Internet) talks more about the need to keep the Internet free and open.

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The Amazing Molly Seidel

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I first heard about her yesterday when watching a video of the US Olympic Marathon Trials. Since I’d never heard of her, the internets helped me learn a lot more about how The Olympic Marathon Trials Are Just the Start of Molly Seidel’s Comeback. Second place in the Olympic Trials. I don’t know Molly. Disorded eating.

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Bringing The Helium Network to Boulder

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” here’s a fun video to get you started along with a deeper explanation of the technology. All you have to do is connect the Helium hotspot to the Internet. We’ve ordered 50 hotspots and, with your help, will set up a LongFi network throughout Boulder. If you are asking, “What’s Helium?”

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The Future Of Work Is Distributed

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In 1995, at the dawn of the age of the commercial Internet, this involved landlines, answering machines, pagers, and fax machines. Any of them could be video conferences instead of face to face meetings. Today, my bet is that most 25-year-olds have never used one of these things.

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American Censorship Day Is Tomorrow (11/16/11)

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It’s incredible to me that Congress would take seriously anything that censors the Internet and the American public but in the last few weeks PIPA and SOPA have burst forth with incredibly momentum, largely being underwritten by large media companies and their lobbyists.

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