OneWebDay: Celebrating Our Internet (9/22/06)
Here's a status report: after the meetings in Boston a couple of weeks ago, I went down to DC for an enthusiastic and high-quality brainstorming session. Next week I'm going out to SF to meet with companies. The site is coming into its own (still under wraps for the moment), and the logo is under development.
Every day I try to spend at least an hour on OneWebDay. It's an exciting project. I've gotten emails from all over the world about it, it looks like I'll get some free PR advice about how to get the word out, and once there's a site to point to I'll be asking all of you to point to it.
Thanks for all the encouragement.
Google VPN
The new Google VPN client is interesting. As James Enck suggests, no monopolistic broadband provider in its right mind will want to block VPN transmissions. But there's no telling what kinds of things could be inside — the “triple play” in a tunnel, perhaps? Voice, video, data, file trading, all streaming along (and through Google's servers at some point, by the way) without the network provider's being able to charge for special services.
It's the Darknet doing double-duty as a business plan. Go, Google.