That's the whole point of LinkedIn, it's supposed to be work-related and have nothing to do with your non-professional life. You could look at it like just another social network but it's not setup to be like that. You can't post a bunch of pictures of what you did this weekend and get people's inane comments on them.

When it comes to 'chummy co-workers', I'm going to go out on a limb and say a vast majority of companies probably prefer co-workers that get along and are comfortable with each other because it leads to effective communication. Sure, relationships can go sour and outside influences can mess with that but in many cases you see the people you work with more hours per day than your spouse. Most reasonable people can see that and put small issues aside that would otherwise taint a non-professional relationship.

What I'm trying to get at here is that friendly is better than hostile 100% of the time and these tools like LinkedIn that get us just a little bit closer to each other are a good thing when used properly. I'm venturing to guess there is a very tiny fraction of the time that this information available online can be used for bad intentions. But hey, so can a phonebook.

Sounds vaguely reminiscent of the double-crosses that would happen in TradeWars 2002. Granted, your BBS'ing community was much smaller, but I wager that TW2002 might be more fun still than EVE Online.

Go Text! It's Best!

I hope you realize the upside to this. The p2p selection isn't random. The idea is that you'll hopefully be paired with people on your own local network so that everybody on your segment can watch it with minimal inbound bandwidth across your Internet link.

All the paranoia about this is expected from this crowd but when you realize that hey, the other 99% of the population on the Internet probably isn't as savvy, the big picture becomes a bit clearer.

The irony is the amount of people willing to use p2p for illegal uses and spew a big chunk of bandwidth out for that but unwilling to allow the same for a free, high quality legal video feed that costs real money (and a lot of it) to produce.

I have no idea what the hell this article is talking about. This will be the most covered event in history, because, well, it is history. There will be many, many, many live video streams covering it and just because one provider has decided to use Silverlight doesn't mean the whole Internet has to use just one feed.

CNN.com for example will be covering this using their same live flash player they've been using for a while. So let's not kid ourselves and pretend that MS has a monopoly on the Internet.

kthnx.

The better to monitor you with! Would this be government operated? Yikes!

The date of the FCC approval is in the first linked story. Sure, it was proposed a little over a year ago, but they were separate companies until recently and completely operationally separate until VERY recently (try two weeks).

Anyway, satellite radio will continue on, they'll just keep getting cash infusions from somewhere until they start making money.

There's a lot to be said for having 20something million customers. If you can't make a business work with well over a billion dollars a year in revenue, it's time to trash upper-management and bring in somebody new that can.