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I’m just now

November 3, 2000 by Michael Boyle

catching up with Groove and Groove Networks, and what I see is very very cool. Camworld pointed me to an article in Byte.com that describes it well. The main message I get so far is that Groove is what wireless networking will have to be. And the artistic potential is very interesting as well.

Screw WAP – too closed, too small. Give me instant, secure, flexible nets on a dozen or a hundred personal wireless devices (like, almost anything you can imagine up to and including each light bulb in my house and its switch) and I’ll go wireless. Meter every second of my use of crappy portal content and I’ll pass, thanks.

Tags: Personal, Wireless

Busy today

September 21, 2000 by Michael Boyle

at work. I feel like the first time I talked with theek about wireless broadband. It was so obvious – but mind blowing at the same time.

This is associated with how shitty my Behind the curtain entry is going to be – cause I worked all day Sunday on a proposal we had to submit by midnight. A lot of pics of me at my desk. Shhh… don’t tell anyone… it’s a secret until the 24th.

Tags: Wireless

The idea of user-developed wireless networks

September 20, 2000 by Michael Boyle

The idea of user-developed wireless networks is great in so many ways. First of all, whether the commercial space is ready for it or not, such open wireless access is how the whole thing will have to work for it to avoid ultimately being no more significant than Compuserve or the old Prodigy – which were important but couldn’t really last in the face of the internet. But it’s also pretty cool that the guy in London is using Web Stalker as his network mapping system. Web Stalker was an art project. An award winning art project – and very cool, if inscrutable. What I like about it is that it reaches back to an earlier era on the web – when people were still getting used to browsers in the first place, Web Stalker came along as an alternate browser, deconstructing an idea that had barely taken root in the public consciousness. Kind of like the wireless project itself.

Tags: Browser, Internet, Space, War, Web, Wireless

Hmmm. This is

September 1, 2000 by Michael Boyle

interesting: HomeRF Gets Up to Speed. Anything that moves things along the path to wireless is worth watching. Massive broadband will never come through wires – I’m talking 70-90% penetration in North America, and not just to a single box or two, but to a whole home.

I’m curious to see whether there’ll be a wire into the location and then a transmitter or if everything will be wireless. I suspect the latter, with every network transaction encrypted, auto-config of new devices entering the space according to rules, and a distribution of network monitoring duties among devices (i.e., no central server in a location controlling everything).

Tags: Space, Wireless

I’m very curious

August 9, 2000 by Michael Boyle

to watch wireless move into the handheld world: Handspring to License Qualcomm Wireless Standard (aka CDMA).

Tags: Wireless

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