nopal

My city is currently soliciting ISPs to build a city-wide fiber network, and I'm wondering if there are any ISPs that have alternative business models.

The only ISPs I can think of that have alternative business models are municipality-owned ISPs and Google Fiber.

It seems that everyone wants to measure potential ISPs against Google Fiber, but I don't foresee any traditional ISP, whose business is selling service, being able to match the price of Google Fiber, whose business is selling advertising. Both Google and municipalities have an incentive to keep prices as low as possible, but traditional providers do not.

If there are any other ISPs that have a business model that is not primarily built on selling service, I would love to know about them. Thanks.

There was an article [1] on Quartz yesterday that says, "Managers are judged on the productivity of their teams—Google has a highly developed internal analytics team that constantly measures all employees’ productivity—and the level of productivity that teams are expected to deliver assumes that employees are working on their primary responsibilities 100% of the time."

I'm hoping someone from Google can chime in and say whether Google's really measuring each employee's productivity, and, if so, how they're doing it.

I've been involved in efforts to measure my team's productivity using function point analysis and LoC measurements, but both felt like bogus measures.

It doesn't seem like Google would use either of these measures, given their engineering culture, so I'm genuinely curious as to how they do it.

[1] http://qz.com/115831/googles-20-time-which-brought-you-gmail-and-adsense-is-now-as-good-as-dead/

This weekend a well-known comedian was live-tweeting sardonic commentary for a new Lifetime movie. It got me thinking that it would be cool to be able to replay his tweets later so that someone who missed the live show would be able to sync them up with the movie.

That, along with the fact that I've had lots of fun on Twitter during big events (like the elections), made me think that it'd be a fun hack to put together a Twitter playback site.

So last night and tonight I threw together http://www.twitterplayback.com. Check it out an let me know what you think!