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20th Century Charging kills 21st Communication

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Twit­ter to/from SMS sus­pen­ded for Aus­tralia: http://twitter.com/blog/2007/04/twitter-down-under.html

I’m with Leslie: the mobile phone net­works in Aus­tralia suk0Rz. Big time. The devices are like bricks in pretty col­ours and think the world revolves around some backend that locks you in via your goolies.

There is all this talk about open source soft­ware, open source pro­to­cols, open source con­tent, open source file formats — yet we have no altern­at­ive and free­dom in the air­waves. Ham radio isn’t going to cut it.

TCP/IP is going to be every­where one day. It isn’t going to mat­ter what device you have. You’ll be online stream­ing up and down “stuff”

Oh well, thanks to Twitteresce, It’s not so bad. (ooh, 0.6. Time to upgrade)

Written by Nick Hodge

April 28th, 2007 at 12:07 pm