Level 3 Communications Blog
In the last 365ish days, we published 75 blog posts on Beyond Bandwidth focusing on secure networks, content delivery, enterprise collaboration, the Mayan Apocalypse, and how our network stood strong during one of the biggest storms the northeastern United States has seen in over 100 years. It’s been a busy year. Here are the TOP 5 [...]
It’s the only question I can remember from any employee satisfaction survey I’ve ever taken. And it was over 10 years ago. “Do You Have a Best Friend at Work?” I remember it because at the time it just seemed so out of left field. Employee satisfaction surveys were supposed to have long and boring [...]
I think that the past year, 2010, will be remembered in our industry as the year of the visual Internet. – Jim Crowe About a year ago, Jim Crowe, our CEO, gave one of those supercool “Jim-like” proclamations about the state of the Internet. His declaration was that in 2010, the Internet had hit a [...]
Homeless people as wifi hotspots? IBM’s Watson implanted inside your brain? Apps that give you shockingly detailed info on strangers you’re sitting next to? Jay-Z and Leo DiCaprio hanging out with web analysts? All these things were discussed or on display this week at the raucous spectacle known as South by Southwest Interactive. For those [...]
The big game is this weekend and if you’re like most Americans, you’re probably going to a party to watch it. And if you’re somewhat digitally saavy like me, you’ll probably watch it with a phone in your hand. Because there’s another party going on during the game and it’s happening across social media. You [...]
In the early days of the web, a consultant would have told you that an effective online business needs a simple webpage to succeed. That web page would most likely have used frames and static HTML to project your company to the world. Things have changed a lot since those days. A Dynamic Website If [...]
It was the best of times for Wills and Kate; it was the worst of times for Mr. Bin Laden…. Ben Bacon’s recent post about the Royal Wedding reminded me of the stark contrast between two major broadcast news events that happened within a few days of each other. Namely the Royal Wedding on April [...]
War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU Thus begins George Orwell’s 1984, a dystopian novel about a bleak future in which man is wholly subservient to the state, a state which maintains power through constant surveillance, propaganda, and mind control. The protagonist of the novel, Winston Smith, works [...]
Try this. Get five friends with their laptops in a room. All go to one of the top search sites. All type in the same search phrase. Compare the results. The chances are they will all be different. Different because the search engines are all trying to personalise our search results. The algorithms written into [...]
When you think about the internet, you probably think of an intangible world of web pages that has little effect in your day to day life. Outside of your ‘real life’ friends that you share pictures and thoughts with on social networks, you might not realize how the online world affects your offline life. Social [...]
