Brad Templeton founded and ran ClariNet Communications Corp., the first Internet-based content company, then sold it to Newsedge Corporation in 1997. ClariNet publishes an online electronic newspaper delivered for live reading on subscribers' machines. He has been active in the computer network community since 1979, participated in the building and growth of USENET from its earliest days and in 1987 he founded and edited rec.humor.funny, the world's most widely read computerized conference on that network. He has been a software company founder, and is the author of a dozen packaged microcomputer software products. He is chairman of the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the leading civil rights advocacy group for cyberspace. He also sits on the advisory boards for a few Internet startups. Currently he is building a new startup to reinvent the phone call.
Much has been written about the new Google GMail trial, which is an e-mail
service that offers a gigabyte of archiving, Google search of your mail
archives and a nice interface. It's free, because while you read your mail,
Google ads will be displayed based on keywords found in the mail you are
reading (just as the Google Adsense program shows ads like the ones you see
on the right based on words found in this document.)
GMail created a surprising storm for a product that hasn't yet been released.
A coalition of privacy groups asked Google to hold back on releasing it. A
California state senator proposed a law to ban the advertising function.
Editorials and blog entries left and right have condemned it and praised it.
I come to this problem from two sides. One, I'm a fan of Google, and have
been friends with Google's management since they started the company. I've
a... (more)
Brad Templeton founded and ran ClariNet Communications Corp., the first Internet-based content company, then sold it to Newsedge Corporation in 1997. ClariNet publishes an online electronic newspaper delivered for live reading on subscribers' machines. He has been active in the computer network community since 1979, participated in the building and growth of USENET from its earliest days and in 1987 he founded and edited rec.humor.funny, the world's most widely read computerized conference on that network. He has been a software company founder, and is the author of a dozen packaged microcomputer software products. He is chairman of the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the leading civil rights advocacy group for cyberspace. He also sits on the advisory boards for a few Internet startups. Currently he is building a new startup to reinvent the phone call.
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