Google has a new take on user driven design

Over on the Giz today (ahem, Gizmodo) is an article on Google using their Moderator application to submit new ideas and allow other users to vote on it.  It’s an interesting idea, and reminds me of what I wrote about earlier regarding UserVoice.
If Google likes your idea and makes oodles of money off of [...]

The impending IP address shortage

There’s a commodity that’s widely used, non-renewable, likely to run out soon, and most heavily by the US and China.  It’s not oil.  It’s the IPv4 address space, and in 2008 the world used up another 200 million addresses, bringing the total usable IPv4 space to 75% of capacity.
Even as usage of the IPv4 [...]