Monday, January 20, 2003

Autoblogging anyone?? -> What is autoblogging?   WiFi car-stereos WiFi car-stereos. A new generation of WiFi-equipped in-car MP3 players is shipping. The possibilities are endless -- imagine a traffic-jam-area file-sharing/streaming net, or synching up with your home PC while your car is in the garage! Link Discuss (via WiFi News) [Boing Boing Blog]   See the USA with a Wi-Fi array See the USA with a Wi-Fi array: I'm trying to hard to fit the jingle to the story, but automotive Wi-Fi may take off, with units in the car talking to mobile components to transfer music, misc. Imagine having a gateway in your car that provides an Car Area Network (CAN). Imagine bridging the CAN to GSM/GPRS as needed. Imagine bridging the CAN to a hot spot location when you're near one. Imagine that you can do that today with...a Macintosh running OS X or a Windows XP box with the right hoo-ha. But in-car, permanent components would be better. [via TechDirt] [80211b News]   The WiFi Caravan The Wifi Caravan is a mobile wireless network comprised of participating vehicles within range of each other using 802.11 networking equipment.   A variety of local resources will be present on the network and forwarding to the Internet will be handled transparently when we have an established uplink.  [via TechDirt] 7:40:29 PM  comment []       Blinkage Doc Searls Weblog -> Blinkage ->   In More of the Same, Frank Patrick nicely ties together stuff he, Britt, Marc, and I have been saying. He adds:   This classic conflict of having to act locally, but think globally is a tough one, if the too common belief that if one manages the individual links of a chain optimally, the chain will optimally benefit as well. It ain't the links (except maybe for the weak one) -- IT'S THE LINKAGES. It's the relationships of the links, and especially with any currently logistically constraining link that is at the center of effective management.   Semi-speaking of which, a lot of the blinkage lately has been around Free (and/or Open) Media Management, a conversation involving Marc, Harold, Phil, Matt and others. Interesting stuff.   Add smart mobs, moblogging, Joi's many connections (I love following all the cool folks trekking like Pilgrims to Japan), and the stuff Sony is up to, and I get a sense that there's a major change coming to everything touched by consumer electronics. The sides being taken lately by the Consumer Electronics Association are especially interesting. The break between the consumer electronics industry and Hollywood is wider than it looks, and will swell to oceanic dimensions as the differences in actual market involvement ‹ conversations, again ‹ become more extreme.   Dig this: the CEA supported Eldred. Here's Gary Shapiro, president & CEO of the CEA, on the Eldred decision:   It is simply unfair that companies who made their fortune taking works in the public domain and reformatting them for new technology are now preventing others from following the same business model... Congress took from the public and gave to Disney. And while most Justices recognized this was horrible public policy they also chose to find it Constitutional.   For decades the consumer electronics business was notoriously detached from its final customers (their actual customers were usually retailers such as Circuit City). For sport I used to write to the feedback link on Sony's Web site, just to see how lifeless the response would be. The few responses I received basically all said "go away." Now I look at the Sony feedback page, and I get the feeling that they're finally taking some good advice.   Hollywood isn't. That's why they'll lose.   Hmm... maybe they should change that label from Consumer Electronics to Smart Mob Electonics. [Doc Searls Weblog] 11:34:20 AM  comment []       The "You Know Me" Button Scripting News -> Trial balloon: "A simple addition to discussion group software makes it easy for a user to go to one place to monitor all conversations he or she is part of." [Scripting News]   Distributed membership and preferences 7/14/2001 -> XML-RPC.COM -> Distributed membership and preferences -> "When I sign up to a new site, call this the dependent site, I wish there were a You Know Me button I could click that would link membership in this site to some other site I am already a member of. " Harold Gilchrist - 2 step solution   7/17/2001; 9:53:40 PM (reads: 1547, responses: 0) Dave, I appreciate your desire to keep things simple for the user. I think by using something like SOAP or XML-RPC in the background things could be kept quite simple for the user while adding some security to the user's data. Here's a 2 step solution: 1) Click "you know me" button 2) Login with username and password 1) When you sign up to a new site, call this the dependent site, as you described earlier, there could be a selection of "You Know Me buttons" to choose from or a text box to fill in with the name of a site that offers this service. This selection would keep things decentralized pretty well. After you click one of the buttons, in the background a message(SOAP or XML-RPC) is sent from the dependent site to the legacy site returning a html string describing the legacy site's login screen(username and password text boxes). Also embedded in the same html form page is hidden data describing information needed for a later legacy to dependent site background message exchange. Note that the dependent site is serving up the legacy's site's login page. 2) You proceed to login with your username and password. The login page would also present you with a box that allows the option of seeing your information requested by the site before it is sent. You proceed to login. A html page is returned to you that shows your info and if you agree, you proceed to hit the "agree to send button". In the background, a message exchange from the legacy site to the dependant site is made sending your user information as requested. A string containing a welcome html page for the dependent site is transferred to the legacy site and then returned to you by the legacy site. Information about how to update dependent site in case of data modification is also given to legacy site. Note: The legacy site/server could be hosted by the user or a server that provides membership services. There could be different levels of user information and depending on the dependent's site request only the required level requested would be sent. Defining different levels allows the system to scale to different preferences in the future. Harold Gilchrist 10:31:24 AM  comment []       Marc's Voice ->  Harold's Open Media Management argument. The argument for Open Media Management Interfaces 101 - by Harold Gilchrist Media Management Systems need open methods and interfaces.  Specifically, the vendor community needs to support standardized interfaces to input and output the media objects contained within their proprietary Media Management Systems.  This is not to say the standard way would be only way or even the preferred way.  The point is to makes the interfaces to Media Management Systems open to other's software and other systems through standardized openly published methods. [Audioblog/Mobileblogging News] Phil brings up some good examples:  The Danger Hip-Top blogs and the Nokia 7650 Club Nokia.  Both are good examples of beneficiaries to an Open Media Management standard.   Sony's Screenblast or Imagestation services and Apple iLife environments would also be obvious beneficiaries, as would Ofoto, XDrive and Ryze.  Anybody who has media on-line somewhere. Even Macromedia and Adobe would benefit from this sort of open standard. Adobe's Album product is a natural, as is Macromedia's ambitions to build 'rich internet applications.' I'm gonna do a big post on this tomorrow. [Marc's Voice] 8:00:24 AM  comment []

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