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    The Honolulu Advertiser ran a wire story on the Massachusetts company Akamai this morning. An interesting overview of what they do, and one tiny new tidbit as to how the company got its name:
    Akamai, which Leighton co-founded in 1998 with Daniel Lewin, then a graduate student at MIT, takes its name from the Hawaiian word for "smart" or "clever." The company does not have any roots in Hawai'i; according to a company spokeswoman, the name resulted from use of a search engine to find words that meant "smart" or "clever."

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    Re: Akamai on the Internet

    I was wondering about that.

    I thought that company started locally, then expanded to global status.
    How'd I get so white and nerdy?

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