Conference on Network Neutrality: Implications for Europe

The Wissenschaftliches Institut für Infrastruktur und Kommunikationsdienste (WIK) is organizing an international conference in Bonn on the Network Neutrality issue. The conference will be held on the 3rd and 4th December.
The program looks very interesting as it gathers a wide range of subjects. Though it seems the issue of cultural industries and the impact of transnational consumption of contents will not be treated in the session addressing the economics of NN. It focus on carriers bandwith consumption.

Link to conference info: http://www.wik.org/content/netneutrality_main.htm

Homo Googelicus

This is the story of how I became an homo googelicus:

I used Google (remember? you did not need to call it Google search because it was only a search tool) for the first time back in 2001. I can't precisize the exact date, it comes when you first don't give importance to your addiction. At that time I was an user of Altavista. Why did I switched? cannot say. Now my only browser toolbar is the Gooble toolbar.

By early 2004 my personal dealer forward me an invitation to Gmail. First I used it as a personal mailbox along with my jobmail, but as time went by I started to use it as my mailhub, my virtual hard-drive and my chat.

In march 2006 I started to share my first GoogleDocs. It is now my main work tool.

That very same year I started to use Blogger as a communication tool for my client's projects. As I got familiar to it I enroled the Adsense and Adwords programs.

Then I started to use Google Reader as my hompage where I have all my sindicated contents. Afterwards, Google calendar came into my life I divorced my beloved agenda. The same happened with Google Maps. Why people use GPS?

For a while, I thought I had some live out of Google. I was a Youtube user. It did not last long.
For a year now, my personal domain belongs to Google.

I could go for hours like that, with many other appliances I use with Google, and others that I have never been capable of finding its real utility (Desktop, Orkut).

But, now I can say Google takes up to 80% of my matrix-plugged live. In the last three years not only I have seen how I used an increasing number of service, but the intensive use of them.

They have all my data, all my preferences, all my consumer profile, all my personal likes and dislikes. I belong to a community.

I strongly recommend this documentary on Google:




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