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AOL Censors, AT&T Spies, Telus Union Busting - Is this illegal or just stupid?

So, here it is. AOL seems to be testing the idea that the Internet is a Service as opposed to an Open Network. They have blocked email's that contain information that is in direct opposition to their business interests.

Additionally , AT&T has diverted ALL of its telephone and Internet traffic to the NSA. While their are seemingly obvious legal implications relative to not having a court order to spy on the entire country, from network neutrality angle, is this bahavior illegal or simply really bad business practice?

And Telus, a major Canadian Telco in a dispute with the union blocked access to the union's website."

These are great example of Net-Neutrality issues. One side (the one I'm on) wants this to be illegal, the other side want's this to be a bad business decision. This is exactly the sort of behavior that the addendum to this bill (and this bill ) were designed to eliminate.

Web 2 glue: a possible business model

Project Management:

Seems like this already exists. Personally, I really like Backit.com. It is lightwieght but I really like that about it. There is aslso Basecamp.com, DreamTeam (salesforce.com plugin), Writely.com and I am sure there is more... But do they have all the pieces that I want...

So what:

To create a wholely new project management service may be smart but only if there is a real need. What seems more interesting is to look at business models that involve become web 2.0 glue, providing best-practices, services, "environments" where web 2 services can be stitched together. I have not seen a lot of this out there yet. Again, the idea is, use your programming muscle to stitch together multiple applications (the google suite, 37signals stuff, salesforce.com stuff, others...) in such a way that end users can simply choose their functionality from a menu of options that you provide.

The Business Web, The Community Web and Net Neutrality

 

Salesforce.com, the On Demand CRM company (and the corporate in the corporate foundation that employees me) is forwarding a new meme, the Business Web. The central idea here is that the Internet is more than a network, it is a platform. The pitch centers around the cost savings that come with:

1. a dramatically reduced IT infrastructure

2. a transparent and dynamically adjustable ROI

3. the leveraging of a common platform (the Internet) to create increased flexibility, customization and integration of mission critical services.