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Tuesday, January 11, 2005 |
IdeaBlade web site has a decent recomended reading list that covers the arguments around SmartClient web applications.
IdeaBlade taking time out of SmartClient development cycles.
I had a meeting yesterday with IdeaBlade. They build corporate applications and sell a .NET-based toolset that enables such. Showed me how their toolset is shortening development times for building Internet Applications. They gave me case after case of corporations switching away from browser-based applications to SmartClients. Why? Because users are a lot more productive is the answer that Robert Otto, VP of business development and sales gave me. [Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]
2:14:26 PM 
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working with digital sound isn't easy yet Jon is always thinking. I still early stage learning on how this audio blogging or podcasting UI is going to work. The content is compelling but still much complexity needs to be chunked overboard to make it work in ways that are familiar to me.
MP3 ins and outs.
In the final analysis, no single media player has all these features:
- HTTP 1.1 random access
- Seek/jump to offset
- Precise cursor control
- Selection marking and review, with precise adjustment of segment boundaries
- Export in/out times
If we want the natural contextualizing forces of the Web to work on media files, we'll need to establish this feature set as a de facto standard. And we'll need UI conventions that make the selection of time-based content as universal an idiom, across platforms and applications, as the selection of text already is. [Full story at O'Reilly Network] ... [Jon's Radio]
2:05:40 PM
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I'm sold Podcasting is the real deal Just read their work (M and M online Magazine) and listen to their podcast from the sixth grade class of Mr. Mayo. These guys are born to podcast.
9:31:59 AM
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I'm this close to trying a podcast but what to say?
Podcasting may be their killer app.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: "Action Engine Corp. spent four years and $35 million developing an innovative technology that lets users of advanced cell phones access sports scores, driving directions, movie times and other information. But like many wireless software companies of the past five years, the Redmond startup stumbled when it came to getting people to actually use the technology."
Imagine a service that reads your podcast feeds, downloads the enclosures on a server you could call with your cell phone. Cursor through the new casts, select one to listen to, put on your Bluetooth earplug, and off you go. Your cellphone doesn't need a hard drive, or the ability to play MP3s. Just the basic web functionality many phones come with these days. (Actually not even that. Just use voicemail navigation techniques.) [Scripting News]
9:23:29 AM
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This might get interesting when I get back to my work in workflow open standards and the like.
Business Objects completes Crystal Reports integration. On Tuesday Business Objects will unveil Business Objects XI (Extreme Insight), the first version of its software following last year's acquisition of Crystal Decisions, to completely integrate Business Objects BI software with Crystal Reports. [InfoWorld: Top News]
9:16:40 AM
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