My pal George Scriban has a blog, and I had to find out about it from Dave Winer's site! Damn you, George! Seriously, though — George is one of the best industry analysts I know. He's cogent, comprehensive and has a sense of humor.
there's something galling about the legal pissing contest between Akamai and Digital Island (now a unit of Cable & Wireless, plc). both companies are arguing that they should be in a position to claim ownership of the most basic technologies behind physically-based content delivery networks: two-level DNS, and adaptive routing to a cache based on traffic conditions. two networks enter, one network leaves.
i doubt there was ever a better reason to replace these guys with P2P content distribution. take a look at these presentations from O'Reilly P2P 2001in Washington, DC.
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