Blogarithms
Doug Kaye's thoughts on web services, web hosting and managed services.
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Is This Really Necessary?. "The question now is: Is edge computing necessary?" says Dave Bench, an Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder analyst. "Or is the amount of bandwidth out there sufficient so that you can just throw bandwidth at the problem, rather than servers at the edge of the network?" As I mentioned last week, the probelm for everyone in the CDN business is that bandwidth is artificially cheap because of an oversupply that, in turn, is due to excessive buildout. The logic behind CDNs is solid, but so long as the bandwidth supply/demand ratio is out of whack, they'll have a tough time making their case.
[Source: In EdgeSuite Akamai Trusts]
Posted Tuesday, October 23, 2001 9:17:59 PM 
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Syndic8. Julian Bond has an article on Syndic8.com project.
Even though RSS has been successful, it could be much more so. Validating feeds would encourage more accuracy. Getting public sites to create RSS themselves would reduce the load on the scrapers. Persuading content management companies to produce RSS by default would save sites from having to code it themselves. This is where Syndic8.com project comes in.
[Source: Content Wire]
Posted Tuesday, October 23, 2001 3:45:55 AM
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