Service Provider Journal

ISP usage caps: Let the market decide

I haven't strayed so far from my ISPCON days that I could sign on to petitions calling for a ban on Internet usage caps. ISPs have to make a buck. But to urge ISPs to forego caps and rely instead on spending their way out of the problem seems to me ignorant of how much benefit technology can deliver in this case. I'm not convinced it's all that much. Let the ISP usage caps flourish, and if competitors can find a way to sell bandwidth cheaper, the market can sort it all out.

Facebook: Liberate the entire news feed, now!

When will Facebook provide my entire news feed as a single RSS feed? Facebook made some moves in this direction back in August, but I just confirmed from Facebook customer support that to this day, it is not possible for a Facebook subscriber to subscribe to their entire news feed in RSS. If Facebook is truly opening up, this is the first place they need to do it.