Telecom Trends (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
Derek Slater and Tim Wu have released an interesting paper called Homes with Tails [ pdf 206KB]. The paper examines consumers taking ownership of their connectivity to the network. Peter Nowak at CBC quoted me in an article about the concept. We call this property model “Homes with Tails,” for the fiber would form part of the property right in the home. Key facets of our approach include: 1. A “condominium”...
2parse/blog (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
“To love Google, you have to be a little bit of a monarchist, you have to have faith in the way people traditionally felt about the king,” Tim Wu, a Columbia law professor and a former scholar in residence at Google, told me recently. “One reason they’re good at the moment is they live and [...]
Docuticker (Free subscription) | yesterday
... In Homes with Tails: What if you Could Own your Internet Connection', New America fellow, Tim Wu and Google Policy Analyst, Derek Slater, proposed a model that encourages consumers to purchase and own the “last-mile” connection that runs into their home. By purchasing their own fiber optic connections, consumers would be able to connect to a variety of service providers. This model holds the potential...
p2pnet (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Just as the CRTC announces it’s effectively giving the green light to Bell Canada to continue shackling the accounts of its customers, Tim Wu, a Canadian who’s now a Columbia Law School professor, and Google policy analyst Derek Slater, suggest home owners might one day buy their own fiber [...]
Flying Hamster (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Are you tired of your internet service provider (ISP) changing the rules? Have you had enough of limitations and reading new ISP regulations? Professor Tim Wu from the Columbia Law School is applying an old concept to the internet connection. He is suggesting that a possible solution is owning the internet connection: “…In [...]
Around Robin (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
“To love Google, you have to be a little bit of a monarchist, you have to have faith in the way people traditionally felt about the king,” Tim Wu, a Columbia law professor and a former scholar in residence at Google, told me recently. “One reason they’re good at the moment is they live and die on trust, and as soon as you lose trust in Google, it’s over for them.” Google’s claim on our trust is a fragile...
p2pnet (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
... giving the green light to Bell Canada to continue shackling the accounts of its customers, Tim Wu, a Canadian who’s now a Columbia Law School professor, and Google policy analyst Derek Slater, suggest home owners might one day buy their own fiber connections which would not only have universal applications, but would also be faster,” said p2pnet . Much faster. Users would be able to, “connect to...
RConversation (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Jeffrey Rosen has a great article in the New York Times Magazine this weekend titled Google's Gatekeepers. In it he deals with the question of whether we are becoming too overly dependent on a few big web companies like Google...
The Technology Liberation Front (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
... other words, “Googlephobia” could bubble over into something truly ugly. Consider the comments of Tim Wu and Lawrence Lessig in Jeff Rosen’s huge New York Times Magazine article this weekend, “ Google’s Gatekeepers .” Along with Yochai Benkler, Lessig and Wu form the Holy Trinity of the Digital Left; they set the intellectual agenda for the Left on information technology policy issues. Rosen quotes...
Fiberevolution (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
... that, but I nonetheless welcome the further explorations into a similar model done (separately) by Tim Wu and Derek Slater in their recently released paper Homes with Tails . In Homes with Tails , Wu and Slater present the context of homeowners paying for and owning their fiber connection to the nearest pops and the benefits that could be derived from such a model. Essentially, the concept (if...
