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Comcast appeals the FCC’s recent Net Neutrality Ruling.
Ian Lamont over at Slashdot writes:

“Comcast has filed a court appeal of an FCC ruling that says the company can’t delay peer-to-peer traffic on its network because it violates FCC net neutrality principles. A Comcast VP said the FCC ruling is ‘legally inappropriate,’ but said it will abide by the order during the appeal while moving forward with its plan to cap data transfers at 250 GB per month.”

This is to be expected, and sadly, it would not surprise me if they win against the ruling. And If they do win it will have a terrible impact upon the individual person browing the internet. This film, posted on Radiohead’s site says it all. How can you say ‘This person should have restricted bandwith because what they are doing, in our perspective, is not as relevant as what this other person is doing’?. It baffles me. It really is just a way for Comcast to control the content and make access to their content easier. Monopolistic nonsense. Did you know they paid for people to sit in chairs at an open forum to discuss this? People who just sat in the seats to hinder free speech. For more information on Net Neutrality read in full over at savetheinternet.com.

To most of the people browsing the internet it isn’t the browser that matters. It’s only a tool to run the important stuff — the pages, sites and applications that make up the web. As Google say ‘Like the classic Google homepage, Google Chrome is clean and fast It gets out of your way and gets you where you want to go’. Google have completely re-engineered the architecture and security management as well introducing an array of powerful tools. You can read in depth here at the official Google Blog. You can download the Windows only Beta release here later today fresh off the development line. Mac and Linux release imminent. As Google say ‘release early and iterate’.

Firefox could benefit if there’s a backlash against Google. Google is a search engine company invading everybody else’s space, and it’s likely to optimise Chrome to work with Google properties, and Google applications. It is also a way of getting Google Gears widely installed. I doubt there will be a backlash any time soon, but things that can be seen as attempts at world domination tend to provoke them eventually.

Firefox’s boss - John Lilly chief executive of Mozilla Corporation - has blogged about it and addresses the obvious questions: How does this affect Mozilla? and What does this mean for Mozilla’s relationship with Google?. You can peruse some early Google Chrome screen-shots over at blogoscoped.

Google Chrome comic-strip elegantly created by artist Scott McCloud

As inspiring and enthusiastic as always Jeff Han talks to Wired Magazine about improving the Perceptive Pixel engine and the industries approach to slowly incorporating MultiTouch interactions.

Truly creating a personalised and relevant online experience. The BBC have recently re-launched their .co.uk site with comprehensive customisation functionality. It is beautifully executed from both a visual implementation and toolset perspective, and a joy to use.

The ECMAScript 4 has been overhauled and the ambitions for JavaScript 2 have been pulled back into alignment with these amendments. This is quite disappointing, although it appears to still be heading in the right direction.  Read the full specification here.

ActionScript is also based on, and compliant with, the ECMAScript 4 standard so I’m wondering how this new proposal will affect its future development.  I do hope they haven’t abandoned the holographic-eye-laser-projection classes.

Macabre, twisted and inspired. The Halo Corpse Alphabet comes complete with numbers and punctuation.

My laptop crashed, fizzled and burned during an important meeting with Bo Hellberg at Ogilvy.  Disaster; calamity and akward’ness.  It takes an immense time and effort to rebuild a machine; reinstall software; add plugins and add ons to utilities and to reconfigure every detail again.  Yawns, headaches and reboots.

Following the rules of Geek’dom can be expensive. I loved the Nokia 3310 so much I bought three. Two to use and this one to tuck away in my tech-goodie-toy-box. Its a design classic in both product and interface design and makes me feel all warm-n-tingly inside.

We can all relax and continue on through the webbi’verse.  Google has reached an agreement with Viacom [in the ongoing US Case], and a class action group led by the FA Premier League, to provide them with a version of a YouTube viewership database that thankfully removes users names and IP data that would identify individual YouTube users.

According to the Guardian article:

‘Google will make user information and internet protocol addresses from its YouTube subsidiary anonymous before handing over the data to Viacom.’

Viacom have been arguing with YouTube over issues of copyright infringement for just over a year.  Viacom have been pressuring YouTube to remove all content deemed to be in breech of copyright and potentially to identify anyone uploading or viewing this content.  This case will go on way into 2010 and the outcome will seriously impact many online business models and user behaviour.  My favourite Blogger, the most splendid Cory Doctrow of BoingBoing.net, writes a fascinating regular column for the Guardian dealing with such copyright and online legal issues; the necessity to review and update outmoded approaches to copyright management  - I highly recommend giving his column a squiz.

Can’t blog. Must examine. Mobile-geek-interactive-joy-ahoy.