Sunday, August 18, 2002

Beta: Instant Messaging in Frontier/Radio. [Scripting News] 10:49:00 AM    comment []

Reuters.   Music labels are pushing to censor access to Web sites (via Michael).  This is another VERY bad idea.  Checking my ISP (Verizon), and it looks like it is already blocked.... The world's largest record companies sued major Internet service and network providers on Friday, alleging their routing systems allow users to access the China-based Listen4ever.com Web site and unlawfully copy musical recordings. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 10:37:05 AM    comment []

The beta of tcp-im is up for Frontier and Radio.  The amazing thing is that this allows you to create services on your desktop that can be offered to anyone that has a supported IM client or a tcp-im enabled version of Radio -- even if you are behind a firewall.  It is going to take a little while to flesh this out, but the core functionality is there. What this will allow you to do: 1) Allows communication via instant messaging between two copies of Radio.  This could be used for instant outlining (the ability to share outlines you create in Radio instantly with people that subscribe), notification of updates to a weblog (instant news aggregation), and more.  It also allows you to publish to your weblog via any supported IM client. 2) Build instant messaging bots.  This means you can build applications in Radio that people can ask questions of via IM.  For example, if you build a database of artist/album titles using Radio and connect it to this framework, people could input "Sinatra" via IM and get a list of albums he recorded.  3) It could, if there was a way to tap into the file attachment function of IM systems be a way to share file directories between subscribed desktops.  This would be great for shared documents, photo albums, and multimedia directories.  If you add a file to your shared desktop folder, everyone that subscribes to it would get it instantly. As you can see, this is a major step on the road towards personal publishing and cross company group collaboration.  Nice. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 10:33:53 AM    comment []

Lessig asks "What have we done about it?" in re technology patents. Here's what we can do and are doing. Develop new ideas and don't patent them. That's the most any developer can do. How about a conservancy for developers who don't take patents. Get people intellectual credit for their creations to balance the proprietary credit they are not demanding. Lessig is so damned irritating. He says "We've not done anything yet." Arrrrgh. Incorrect. He's not done anything yet. Perhaps his friends haven't done anything yet. Does Dr Lessig understand technology any better than Rep Coble? [Scripting News] Does posting ideas on personal web logs with coppywrite notices give any protection for these ideas for future pattens? I would have to do some research but there could be a category for ideas released under the open sourse preamable that would give others access to build on them and then possible release under similar terms. I will have to learn more from some of the Law Blogs. Anyone know where I should beging? 10:31:31 AM    comment []

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