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Wednesday, February 19, 2003
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Demo 2003 Takes Aim at the Enterprise
Technology News from eWEEK and Ziff Davis -> Demo 2003 Takes Aim at the Enterprise -> "Clearly the quality of the demonstrators was excellent, but it didn't start out that way. The first two exhibitors were straight out of 1997. TerraDigital Systems' Terraplayer Internet Radio is clearly fun (and expensive), but also useless to anyone in the enterprise. Likewise there's nothing from FullAudio that appeals to the IT crowd, and in fact the ability to play and download music probably works against anyone trying to manage a network in the enterprise. " [Technology News from eWEEK and Ziff Davis]
11:07:15 PM 
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Motorola goes with USB On-the-Go
CNET News.com -> Motorola goes with USB On-the-Go. TransDimension licenses its technology to the chipmaker, expanding the reach of the emerging connectivity specification in the cell phone and handheld markets. By Richard Shim, Staff Writer, CNET News.com.
"Other technologies, such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, are formidable competitors and have the added benefit of being wireless, but USB On-the-Go uses less power, is less expensive for developers and is currently more widely used than its rivals."
[CNET News.com]
10:45:56 PM
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As RSS 2.0 gains traction
Scripting News -> Jeremy Allaire: "As RSS 2.0 gains traction and the content moves from being simple text content to richly tagged meta-data and more or less structured content, what's the proper productivity interface for digesting all that data?" [Scripting News]
9:04:45 PM
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CodeCon WiFi caravan runs high-speed mobile mesh
CodeCon WiFi caravan runs high-speed mobile mesh. Hackers on the way to San Francisco's CodeCon conference from Portland will recreate last year's WiFi caravan, in which the passengers in several moving cars use WiFi links to create a moving high-speed network for chat, music-sharing, and other applications. This year, they've got their hardware supplier to play along and issue a press-release.
VIA Technologies, Inc. a leading innovator and developer of silicon chip technologies and PC platform solutions, today announced that the Janus Wireless Project will use VIA EPIA M-Series Mini-ITX mainboards to form the hardware platform behind their WiFi Caravan's zany multi-car, 14-hour journey from Portland to San Francisco on 21st February 2003, running a full service wireless network between vehicles, with public online participation through specified access points.
Broadcasting music, playing games, chatting, downloading and uploading files, the WiFi Caravan aims to show how a 802.11 (WiFi) wireless network can be maintained between several high speed moving vehicles using the existing wireless access node infrastructure, much of which has been abandoned by defunct telecommunications companies in and around the Portland area. Link Discuss (via Hack the Planet) [Boing Boing Blog]
8:58:07 PM
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Messaging and Meetings: Sociotechnical Collision
Smart Mobs -> Messaging and Meetings: Sociotechnical Collision.
Social norms and etiquette change more slowly than technological practices: witness the shushing of people while the TV is on, or the imperative to answer a ringing telephone in the middle of a face-to-face conversatin, even if you have voicemail. Wireless messaging on PDAs, mobile telephones, and laptops is the latest site of conflict. This News and Observer article concentrates on the multiple effects of wireless messaging in business meetings, but professors in Wi-Fi equipped classrooms, and public speakers who find themselves being liveblogged to the world are also experiencing the effects. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? The answer, I believe, is: "Yes."
(Thanks, Thomas!) [Smart Mobs]
8:52:19 PM
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The Mathematics of Recommendation?
Smart Mobs -> The Mathematics of Recommendation?.
Right now, we have a poor vocabulary for describing the different kinds of technology that can augment collective action or the various degrees of the dynamic social capital Cory Doctorow calls Whuffie. The aggregated actions of large numbers of people can give rise to emergent patterns that no individual is consciously aware of creating, and computation can turn those patterns into useful inferences about future behavior. A socially simple but global, nearly instantaneous, financial reputation system, riding on data networks, enables people to exchange pieces of plastic for goods and services. The data-mining project formerly known as Total Information Awareness is a snoopware flavor. Slashdot-like reputation systems are a flavor. And the way that Amazon makes better recommendations after you order a lot of books is a flavor. Is there an underlying mathematical structure to such systems? One term you hear a lot if you sniff around reputation systems is "Bayesian." This CNET article does a good job explaining what it is, and what it has to do with smart mobby stuff.
(Thanks, Jim Downing!) [Smart Mobs]
8:49:39 PM
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Portable USB drive + MP3 player
Gizmodo -> Portable USB drive + MP3 player.
 New portable USB drive from SmartDisk that doubles as an MP3 player. The Rover as it's called weighs less than an ounce, and comes in two capacities, 64MB and 128MB.
Read
[Gizmodo]
8:45:46 PM
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Beware the false blog software
megnut -> Beware the false blog software. With the news of Google's acquisition of Pyra Labs, watch software makers scramble to include a blogging feature in their products. Microsoft-Watch reports that Microsoft Tests the Blogging-Tool Waters with their Community Starter Kit. The article quotes Microsoft developer division product manager Shawn Nandi,
"You could use this (Kit) to build a Weblog."
You can also use Microsoft Notepad and an FTP client to build a weblog, but that doesn't mean they were designed for that, or that it's easy to do.
Ask yourself when looking at "blogging" software: Was it designed with weblogging in mind (i.e. easy updating through simple posting interface, archives for posts, permalinks, templating control, comments, RSS output, etc.) or has the label "blogging" been slapped onto an existing publishing system designed around outputing web pages? That is, can your content be chunked up into posts, so that content can live in many places at once (your front page, your archive, your by-category page) or is the tool outputting pages, trapping your words in the page paradigm? (For more on posts vs. pages, see my megnut column, What We're Doing When We Blog.)
The answer to these questions is the difference between a tool designed for weblogging and one that's simply trying to capitalize on blogging's current popularity. [megnut]
8:42:49 PM
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Blogstreet launches visual neighborhood
Visual Neighborhood. Blogstreet launches visual neighborhood.  Blogstreet just launched a new tool that uses Java to let you view your Blogstreet "neighborhood" and click on your neighbors to expand and see their neighborhoods, etc. You get the idea. The tool is on their site and the developer, Veer, blogs about it. I think the tools is fun, but two notes. I don't know my neighbors very well, but maybe that's not the point. Maybe it is about who I SHOULD know... It would be neat to be able to view Technorati data this way. Also, although it is fun, I'm not sure exactly how useful these visualizations are when you're in high-efficiency, I'm-too-busy-to-eat-lunch-because-I'm-blogging mode... Although I'm enjoying dragging Doc around and watching the other blogs wiggle as they follow my Doc and my mouse around the screen. It's particularly fun in show "all" mode where there are a lot of blogs following him around... ;-) [Joi Ito's Web] [Ross Mayfield's Weblog]
8:38:39 PM
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If the pros can do it....(continues)
Rob Greenlee of WebTalkGuys Radio Show http://www.webtalkguys.com joins in on the thread that started from Mitch at RatcliffeBlog: Business, Technology & Investing post:
If the pros can do it.... -> "For a while, I've been suggesting that studios and broadcasters should make their content available for remixing/riffing/modification by end users. Now, Mike Myers has signed a deal that lets him do "film sampling" to take existing scenes from films to make new stories. If Dreamworks, the company Myers is working with wants to have some fun, they should let people sign up for $20 a month to access and modify any part of its library, then share or sell those new stories with a cut going to Dreamworks. "
Rob Greenlee's comments -> Harold and Mitch: I have thought long about the merging of the WebTalkGuys World Radio Show with the Blogging world as a source for content as seen by my effort with Mitch Ratcliffe and the AudioBlog segment we did. I think the concept worked from a content side and was interesting to listen.
We walk a fine line because we have a diverse and varied distribution of our content. We strive to be suitable for broadcast radio and digital Internet. This is a very difficult line to walk. We are constantly under pressure to be live with call-ins and not pre-produced like most digital on-demand shows. Both mediums have different needs based on the audience and the distribution owners. I just don't see a BlogRadio show being a viable concept for another year or more. Audience and distribution acceptance is a ways off. You will never see BlogRadio on broadcast radio today. It could be viable now through distribution like XM, IM Tuner(Sonicbox), Mazingo(Pocket PC), Mobile Broadcast Network, Kontiki (P2P syndication), download into mp3 players and possibly coming digital radio.
The other piece is that the contibutors and channel must be a large enough entity to be recognized as a trusted source. We have been doing our show online for 4 years and we are still building that trust and acceptace. We have even been on distribution channels like CNET Radio. We fit the definition of a non-pro content radioblog producer and we have had an up hill climb. We could become a dedicated channel for audioblog content distribution that everyone works through to get their distribution though the digital distribution syndicators to reach larger audiences like AventGo (possible addition of audio content), Goggle RadioBlogs, XM RadioBlogs and Digital RadioBlogs. We could air the actual audio blog and then have the blogger as a guest to clarify the position or opinion raised in the audioblog. We would want to work mostly with the highest profile written and audio bloggers in the world.
I would be interested in moving more down this path and devoting a portion of our show to topic threads that are running through the blogs that are about hot Internet related issues and technologies. Bring them on and send me those mp3's. I will talk about them and get them on the air. I would be happy to link to the source blog and give blog credit. My email is robg@webtalkguys.com.
I am remodeling the WebTalkGuys website to be more in a audioblog form and would love any suggestions. We also own http://www.audioblogs.com and will be using it in the future with our show.
9:31:55 AM
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FCC Audio/Video Internet Events
FCC > Audio/Video Events  ->
"This page provides worldwide access via the Internet to live and pre-recorded broadcasts of selected FCC events. All events are held in the FCC Commission Meeting Room (Room TW-C305, 445 12th Street, S.W., Washington, D.C.) unless noted otherwise. Links for live events will be activated approximately 5 minutes prior to the published start time. "
Next Event: February 20, 2003
Public Safety National Coordination Committee (NCC)
Subcommittee Meetings
- Interoperability Subcommittee – 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
- Technology Subcommittee – 12:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
- Implementation Subcommittee – 3:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
This is the eighteenth meeting of the NCC Subcommittees. The NCC advises the Commission on a variety of issues relating to the use of the 24 MHz of spectrum in the 700 MHz band that has been allocated to public safety services.
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Goto the page at 9:00 am on 2/20/03 to display the live Audio/Video link
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