By Jake Brewer & Joe Kochan
What do we get with a Gigabit Internet? At 1 billion “bits per second,” a gigabit is 200 times faster than today’s U.S. average of roughly 5 million bits per second (5 Mbps). But the question remains: what can we actually do with that kind of speed? Continue reading
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5 Reasons to Attend US Ignite’s Application Summit
If you haven’t heard yet, our Next Generation Applications Summit is coming up in just 11 days! We’ll have innovative speakers, next generation application demos, an “apps expo” showing off even more demos, and much, much more. There’s still time to register, but if you’re on the fence, here’s why you should attend. We Have … Continue reading
Keep Your Cloud Local
With lots of people going to “The Cloud,” a lot has been written about why it makes sense to take advantage of the economies of scale the big clouds provide. And for serving web pages, all of this makes perfect sense. Continue reading
Building a Cathedral? Don’t Lose Sight of the Bricks.
We’re making progress every day towards fostering the development of next generation applications. But there are still lots of questions to answer and kinks to work out. And some of us can lose sight of that. Whether its a TED Talk or another presentation of “big ideas.” Luckily, we have people like Curt Beckmann keeping … Continue reading
US Ignite Reports from “Hacking the Gigabit City” in Kanas City
By Glenn Ricart
Late last month I was a part of an intensive and productive Mozilla-Ignite Hackathon at the Google Fiber Space in Kansas City. Fourteen teams competed and their members seemed split almost evenly between Kansas City and hackers from across America (and Canada) who either came for the hacking or for the “legit barbeque.” (And the barbeque was very good!) Continue reading
Searching for next-generation apps at #SXSW
Were you one of the thousands who flocked to Austin for SXSW – excited to be part of the action and a chance to check-out Startup Village? We were too! And this year, we were on the lookout for innovative developers and entrepreneurs working on applications that take full advantage of next-generation technologies like software … Continue reading
How the Internet Could Revolutionize Your Neighborhood
How your Doctor could be at your house with the click of a button. Harvard Professors too. Continue reading
You’ve Got Ideas and It’s Time to Bring Them to Life
If you’ve got a great idea for an app that’s going to transform the way we live, work, learn and play, it’s time for you to join US Ignite and its partners. There are a slew of opportunities coming up with “Hacking the Gigabit City,” the Mozilla Ignite Challenge, and “Gigtank 2013” all happening over the next few months to show us “what’s possible” with next-generation technology like SDN, cloud computing and gigabit networks. Continue reading
Tennessee, with a taste of German Engineering and French Innovation
How a relatively unknown city became one of the coolest in the nation. Continue reading
IgniteCamp “Imagining What’s Possible” in San Leandro, CA
By Glenn Ricart
US Ignite held its first BarCamp for developers earlier this month in San Leandro – one of our most recent communities to join US Ignite. With more than sixty attendees of many backgrounds (including about seven students) we became the organizers, the speakers, the panelists, the audience and the quality control for IgniteCamp 2013. Continue reading