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Domain Names, Future, Graph, Internet, Networks, Semantic Web, Social
GGG - The Giant Global Graph
11.26.07 | Permalink | Comment?

Below is Tim Berners-Lee’s post that coined the term, ‘the Giant Global Graph’…and why I now own the GiantGlobalGraph.us, CloudGraph.com and GraphCloud.com domain names.

“Well, it has been a long time since my last post here. So many topics, so little time. Some talks, a couple of Design Issues articles, but no blog posts. To dissipate the worry of expectation of quality, I resolve to lower the bar. More about what I had for breakfast.

So The Graph word has been creeping in. BradFitz talks of the Social Graph as does Alex Iskold, who discusses social graphs and network theory in general, points out that users want to own their own social graphs. He also points out that examples of graphs are the Internet and the Web. So what’s with the Graph word?

Maybe it is because Net and Web have been used. For perfectly good things .. but different things. (more…)
Domain Names
Naming babies based on domain name availability
08.23.07 | Permalink | Comment?

Tots Getting Internet Identity at Birth

By ANICK JESDANUN
AP Internet Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — Besides leaving the hospital with a birth certificate and a clean bill of health, baby Mila Belle Howells got something she won’t likely use herself for several years: her very own Internet domain name.

Likewise newborn Bennett Pankow joined his four older siblings in getting his own Internet moniker. In fact, before naming his child, Mark Pankow checked to make sure “BennettPankow.com” hadn’t already been claimed.

“One of the criteria was, if we liked the name, the domain had to be available,” Pankow said. It was, and Pankow quickly grabbed Bennett’s online identity.

A small but growing number of parents are getting domain names for their young kids, long before they can do more than peck aimlessly at a keyboard.

It’s not known exactly how many, but the practice is no longer limited to parents in Web design or information technology.

They worry that the name of choice might not be available by the time their babies become teens or adults, just as someone claimed the “.com” for Britney Spears’ 11-month-old son before she could.

The trend hints at the potential importance of domain names in establishing one’s future digital identity…
Domain Names, Videos
vConvert.net - Convert YouTube Videos to Popular File Formats - Sold!
08.16.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Literally hours after being mentioned on Mashable.com, vConvert.net put itself up for auction. The winning bid was 15,700 EUR (~ $21,045.85). It looks as though the folks at vConvert.net have turned a nice profit.

This is reminiscent of last month’s InviteShare.com debacle; wherein, one week after being featured on TechCrunch.com, they were purchased by the same TechCrunch.com for the speculated amount of $25,000. Leveraging popular blog traffic to help sell your site may be the way to go if you are unable to finance your growing Infrastructure needs. However, if this is not the case, you can’t blame anyone (including vConvert.net) for striking while the iron is hot. Congrats on the online real estate flip!

Description from vConvert.net: “This service allows you convert an Online Video like ‘YouTube videos’ to more popular formats like wmv, mov, mp4, mp3, 3gp etc. vConvert.net converts FLV to the selected format faster and less lossy than a typical transcoder. When you submit a url, it will download the file to server and convert to the video format. Then you can download the converted file.”
Domain Names, REST
Predictive Domaining
08.16.07 | Permalink | Comment?

Webmaster.com is running an interesting discussion about domain names and has coined a phrase that covers a recent interest of mine–predictive domaining. Predictive domaining is where you “put your futurist hat and go domaining.” Simply put, it is the practice whereby one registers a domain name based on the future potential of that name…and yes, someone has already snapped up predictiveDomaining.com. For example, the concept of REST or RESTful web services has yet to its way into the corporate mainstream. However, as Burton Group predicts, “‘Today, it is only innovators that are really working with REST,’ she said. ‘In three years, we should see the early adopters start to play with REST. It will probably be five years before it is adopted by the early majority. We anticipate that the late majority will probably not pick up REST for at least another 10 years.’” With that being said, I quickly snapped up RESTwebServices.com and RESTfulWebServices.com (both currently parked) as I “predict” that these domains may become relevant domains/search phrases in the years to come. While I don’t see myself as the Miss Cleo of domaining, at $6/year, I do see this as a low-risk, high-potential personal investment.