Link | Inexpensive, Powerful and Blindingly Fast: Intel Commoditizes 10GigE - GigaOM

Inexpensive, Powerful and Blindingly Fast: Intel Commoditizes 10GigE - GigaOM: “Oh So Cool “

Link | Listening to Customers is Hard, Hard, Hard - Continuations

Listening to Customers is Hard, Hard, Hard - Continuations: “Too True. Read this is you need a reminder. I found this via Fred Wilson’s blog.”

Link | Mobile Backhaul Equals Big Money Opportunity - GigaOM

Mobile Backhaul Equals Big Money Opportunity - GigaOM: “Om quotes new Infonetics numbers. He finishes with question — why is there no start-up activity in this space. Possibly because it’s the same (or scaled down) IP/Ethernet gear used to backhaul broadband. Just an idea “

Link | Dean Bubley’s Disruptive Wireless: What’s in a number? Is 3 billion irrelevant?

Dean Bubley’s Disruptive Wireless: What’s in a number? Is 3 billion irrelevant?: “Dean posits that there are ~300M potential 3.5G/4G customers not 3B.”

Putting Links in Main Feed instead of Delicious Widget

I’m going to follow Andrew@Nyquist’s lead and put my links into my main feed instead of the sidebar widget. Cheers. Iain

Link | Throttle 5 million P2P users with $800K DPI monster - Ars Technica

Throttle 5 million P2P users with $800K DPI monster - Ars Technica: “Technical Sex. Excellent!” And some people wonder why Data Centers are so hot? (in deg C that is)

Link | Seth’s Blog: Sucking all the juice out

Seth’s Blog: Sucking all the juice out — How many times has a copy editor/reviewer (legal, marcomm, etc) “sucked all the juice out” of your text? Seth rants (in a good way).

Link | Expectations Lose to Reality of Sports Scholarships - New York Times

Here is an interesting article on sports scholarships. Expectations Lose to Reality of Sports Scholarships - New York Times.

My favorite part is the recommendation by the NCAA president, Myles Brand, to focus on academics. What a concept. It is school after all.

Instead, Mr. Brand (president of NCAA) said, families should focus on academics.

“The real opportunity is taking advantage of how eager institutions are to reward good students,” he said. “In America’s colleges, there is a system of discounting for academic achievement. Most people with good academic records aren’t paying full sticker price. We don’t want people to stop playing sports; it’s good for them. But the best opportunity available is to try to improve one’s academic qualifications.” The math of athletic scholarships is complicated and widely misunderstood.

(Via NY Times.)

I love Internet QoS Discussions (Not)

Talked about way more than deployed Here’s the summary.

Unfortunately, Semi-vendors have no choice — all this stuff has to go in — just in case. It’s needed to get thru lab trials

Summary

There is no Internet QoS today, and it’s unlikely any complex QoS scheme will ever be added to the Internet as a whole. To the extent next generation networks with rich QoS are deployed, it will only be within walled gardens. But there may be opportunities for ISPs to create a simple premium service that could generate incremental revenue.

Why There is No Internet QoS? By Brough Turner, SVP, CTO and co-founder of NMS Communications (April 200 (Via IP Convergence TV.)

Seth ‘Riffs’ on “What Every Good Marketer Knows”

Lotsa good stuff in this list. Check it out — What do you know? - Seth’s Blog

The theme is consistent - Good relationships, trust, personalize, story-telling, wants (more than needs), marketing starts before product,… Bad interrupting, fooling, commodity, …