What might E-Mail look like if it were invented by… Linus Torvalds… the OSS-Community… the XMPP-Guys… or any company without central servers within their buisness plan? To me Google Wave is not much more than an IMAP-Server with integrated CSV-Log and a nice GUI. If you remember Linux Torvalds talk on the GIT at Google [...]

At least German events

GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespräch Future Internet
May 28th, 2009 in Munich, Germany
http://www.docomoeurolabs.de/FI/cfp.html
Deadline: May 6, 2009

9th Würzburg Workshop on IP:
Joint ITG and EuroNF Workshop
“Visions of Future Generation Networks”
(EuroView2009)
July 27th – July 28th 2009 Würzburg, Germany
http://www3.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/euroview/2009/
Deadline: May 22, 2009

Yesterday I attended another workshop on “The Future Internet” presented by the GI/ITG KuVS and located at the TH Karlsruhe – or more precisely at the impressive castle of Karlsruhe .
There had been some interessing talks especially about my favorite transport protocol SCTP and the IETF’s first session layer protocol “RSerPool” (IETF charta), which [...]

An interessting talk (local copy) from Van Jacobson and Bob Felderman from the Linux.conf.au 2006 about the history and future of implementing networking stacks:

“The way we’ve always done it is not necessarily the same as the right way to do it”
The background is that the networking stacks we know today were initially created for MULTICS [...]

The National Science Foundation has created great and very interessting site on the history of the NSF-/ARPA-/INTERNET.

“The challenges and and possibilities are out there, waiting for the next group of dreamers to change the world once again.”

Your little start-up Sones (located in Erfurt) made it under the first German 20 start-ups !
I blogged about this election by the INTERNET WORLD Business newspaper some time ago, but now it’s your chance to support us. Just click on the following link and give us your vote

Update: The competition is also [...]

CAIDA, the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis, provides tools and analyses promoting the engineering and maintenance of a robust, scalable global Internet infrastructure. And sometimes they also hire an art student for an internship:

The Internet, an undergrad project by UCSD graphic art student Jennifer Hsu.
(via: blog.caida.org)

For the last months I’m working for a small start-up called “SONES GmbH” located in Erfurt Germany. The goals of the company is to develop new search technologies respecting the fact that the normal SQL-based way of storing information within fixed tables is not the best solution for a large bunch of new applications [...]