Tuesday, July 15, 2003

SMC's Wireless Multimedia Receiver SMC's Wireless Multimedia Receiver. Another new wireless home media adapter, this one from SMC. The EZ-Stream Universal Wireless Multimedia Receiver connects your PC to your stereo and television over 802.11a and 802.11g. And because it uses those higher-speed wireless networking standards (rather than the slower 802.11b), SMC's Wireless Multimedia Receiver can stream both video and music files stored on your PC's hard drive. The recently released Wireless-B Media Adapter from Linksys uses 802.11b and can only stream audio. Read... [Gizmodo] 8:29:51 PM  comment []       Copyrights and Blogs Copyrights and Blogs. We are about to enter the marshland of copyrights, a wet land of confusion that lies between the land and the sea.  On land, things are on firm ground of fair use.  In the sea, what sinks and what doesn't is clear cut.  In the marshland, nothing is certain. As I mentioned before, value-added blogs and feeds are coming our way.  But copyright issues could sink it before it gets here.  Last night, I asked Dave Winer how he would feel if I created an RSS feed of his posts I liked.  His answer was no, and I suspect majority of bloggers will feel the same way. Imagine a newspaper of blog posts delivered to 100 million readers three times a day.  While some might think this is impossible, I have walked though most of the serious technical and business issues and have concluded that such newspaper is not only possible, but potentially very profitable. Biggest unknowns are the copyright issues.  It's not just the bloggers and how they feel about commercial syndication of their posts, but owners of the material bloggers frequently refer to or embed into their post either partially or as a whole.  It's a big iceberg that could turn any ship into Titanic. [Don Park's Daily Habit] 7:21:22 AM  comment []       Moblogging Bastille Day Moblogging Bastille Day. Adam Greenfield in his wrap-up on the moblogging conference held in Tokyo recently: "I know in my bones that the act of self-publishing material from mobile to devices to a shared global network, and retrieving similarly user-generated material, is going to be one of the defining cultural features of the next few years." [Corante: Corante on Blogging] Right on to Adam. This is Marc Canter coming to you - live - from my apartment on the Embarcadero in San Fracisco, CA.   It's Bastille Day, 2003 and mobloggers around the world are enjoying brie cheese and Champagne - celebrating theliberation of the people of France. Now imagine me singing that to you - via Audblog or some other audio blogging service.   AOL's blogs are gonna work from cell phones too. [Marc's Voice] 7:12:46 AM  comment []       About.com reviews RSS News Aggregators About.com reviews RSS News Aggregators. If you've been wondering what RSS is, or what a news aggregator is, this is a good place to start. [The Scobleizer Weblog] 7:10:11 AM  comment []       Microsoft Speech Server Microsoft Speech Server. Microsoft Beta to Make 'em Talk Microsoft has released a public beta of their Speech Server and a new beta of their Speech Application SDK. Microsoft had previously teamed up primarily with Intel to propose a new standard called SALT that is somewhat competitive with VoiceXML. As of now, I contrast the two as: SALTuseful for speech-enabling web applications VoiceXMLuseful for web-enabling speech applications While this is an oversimplification, it reasonably reflects their current usage. Both VoiceXML and SALT based speech applications follow a similar pattern. Prompt the user Interpret the user's response Act on the response The action will... [WombatNation] 7:00:28 AM  comment []

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