Light Reading writes about a report from Sanford Bernstein that quashes the view that cable TV companies will be running out of capacity, even when faced with Verizon’s FiOS project.
As I mentioned on Friday, “Indexing and searching video is an interesting problem. User created video content is a start.” Will telcos leverage Google – YouTube technology users as a disruptive approach to video, perhaps based upon video-on-demand?
Canadian Thanksgiving Day thoughts.
Take a look at Kathy Sierra’s post Knocking the exuberance out of employees.
Her view: when asked, companies say they want bold, creative, smart, passionate and independent employees. But often, they actually hire (or develop) cautious, methodical, capable and obedient robots. You’ll enjoy her 16 reasons why robots are the best employees.
Her closing extends to behaviour at home:
And while I’m here… parents do this as well. Admit it. We have all wished that our children (for whom we worked so hard to instill a fierce independence) would be strong-willed, exuberant, questioning–everywhere but at home. I’ve never really wanted Skyler to be a robot, but oh how I’ve wished for a robot mode
Compare her post with Seth Godin’s 50:1. Variations on a theme.
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I am on the advisory board of the Masters of Engineering in Telecom at University of Toronto. Part of the Masters program involves a project. The university posts the completed work on its website.
Take a look. There are some bright minds in the school.
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We spent a brief time in Muskoka to enjoy the colours – an opportunity to appreciate the non-technological pleasures of life.
It was 4 hours of driving – with good roads and great conditions. Last Thursday, I spent 10 hours riding in a car with numerous tie-ups – none of which were reported in radio traffic reports.
I’ll be happy to have 5-1-1 implemented soon.
If you attended The Canadian Telecom Summit as a delegate in the past two years, you should have received a post card in the mail this week to let you know about the dates for 2007 (June 11-13).
If you want to make sure you are on our mailing list for news, please visit our website: www.telecomsummit.com.
Yes, we are already working on the event; 4 of our keynote speakers are confirmed. Registration is open, if you are really keen – or if you want to use up last year’s budget allocation and take advantage of our early bird rates at the same time!
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