Viodi View – The Bridge Between the Heartland and Silicon Valley

Author: Ken Pyle, Managing Editor

  • Viodi View – 07/21/10

    In light of the yesterday’s FCC report, suggesting that approximately 7.7% of U.S. households are unserved by broadband, Dave Burstein's investigative work trying to understand where the NTIA money is going becomes especially relevant. His early analysis suggests that the NTIA money is not meeting the goal of getting broadband to the unserved.1 In a…

  • Viodi View – 07/09/10

    Seeing people smile at the camera is one of the most rewarding things about producing video content. Looking back on it years later, the combination of audio and video captures memories that print and photos alone cannot match. Editing the following video brought back fond recollections of past OPASTCO tradeshows and friends made at these…

  • IEEE ComSoc and Computer Society Joint Meeting: July 14th in Santa Clara, CA

    Cloud Computing: Impact on IT Architecture, Data Centers and the Network Three keynote talks from VMware, Microsoft and Ericsson will be followed by a lively panel/ Q and A session with Juniper Networks also participating.  We are all very excited about this comprehensive and well balanced look at cloud computing from both a computiing and…

  • Viodi View – 06/23/10

    A goal of the Viodi View is to be a proxy for independent telephone companies at conferences by reporting on those events. For various reasons, it is difficult to provide a detailed report when I am participating in the conference, as I was yesterday at the Georgia Telephone Association’s Annual Convention. So, a few high-level…

  • Online Content Producers’ Bill of Rights

    Finally, after 3 years in draft mode, I decided to publish the following post.  The recently drafted "Social Network Users' Bill of Rights" reminded me of my post written so long ago, except that it is obviously more well thought out than what I scratched out one morning.  Of course, having a bunch of bright…

  • IEEE ComSocSCV Workshop on Mobile Apps, 6/24/10

    June 24 Workshop on Mobile Apps,  Microsoft Campus in Mt View, CA IEEE ComSocSCV and TiE-SV Wireless SIG  have recruited many top notch speakers, moderators and panelists for this very timely workshop:   "New Platforms and Infrastructure for Mobile Apps" to be held on June 24, 2010 from 3:30- 9:00 p.m. at the Microsoft Campus in Mountain…