It turns out that Alaska Senator Ted Stevens was at least somewhat right. For some companies, including hotel services provider LodgeNet, the internet IS a series of tubes. I've been struggling with uploading video to Revver using the LodgeNet high speed connection in my room. Dump too much stuff on THEIR truck, and up pops a message saying that your connection speed has been slowed to 56K for the next 10 minutes because of "suspicious activity". Yeah. Subversive Etel videos…
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
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