Saturday, July 3, 2004

* KSLX 4th of July Celebration - Chandler, AZ * Join 100.7 KSLX, The City of Chandler, and The Chandler Lions Club for the: Old Fashioned 4th of July Celebration, Sunday, July 04, 2004 , 4:00PM - 10:30PM Activities include live music, food and beverage vendors, interactive amusements for the kids, a carnival for kids and a fabulous display of fireworks at approximately 9:30 p.m. Admission is free. Tumbleweed Park is at the corner of Germann and McQueen roads. This 4th of July, see power house tribute band Led ZepAgain (reviewed by Mediaburn.net) and Cheap Trick's tribute band Dream Police. Then get ready for one of the top fireworks show in the valley.....The RC Cola Fireworks Spectacular!!!! You can get free parking when you show your Albertsons Preferred Card - proceeds from beverage purchases will go to the Chandler Lions Club. More information online at: http://kslx-fm.firstmediaworks.com/get/sales/ 2:11:58 PM

Via Metastar VoIP to plain old phone system is available on Skype. Cool, I just got a Vonage, I would stop my subscription if only they could launch their Mac version of Skype... Via Rodrigo : VoIP to plain old phone system is available on Skype Done! Predicted a few months ago, Skype launched last week their SkypeOut service allowing you to call from your PC or PDA (running windows or linux), to a normal phone number in many countries for a ridiculously cheap price. The price list to all available countries is available. (from the Jeff Pulver blog - a great ressource on VoIP). By the way, Skype folks really need to work on a mailing list for breaking news like this, instead of us checking upon their web site all the time. 15m downloads already ... Not bad for a marketing blitz! and, version Skype 0.98 (0.98.0.42) was released yesterday. Finally, Fast Company has blogged about recent comments from Skype's CEO at Supernova 2004. Extracts: "What I want to talk about is when telephony becomes software, which is what's really happening right now. We're going to see a transition. What does that mean? One key factor is that when telephony becomes a software application, it will live on the edges of a network. There will be no centralized control. Telephony development cycles are still very long. But their carriers' services are very much commodities, and there isn't much differentiation. When we can change telephony to an application, we'll be able to change the economics of it. That will increase software innovation, new products, services, features. And that will be in the hand of small, nimble, software development companies. There will be higher competition, and the services will live on the Internet." [Loic Le Meur Blog] [Metastar] 12:50:05 PM

EFC Trendspotting Cubist Canyon. Photo: Ole [Ottmar Liebert] 11:20:39 AM

OB4.org via Dan Gillmor via Mediaburn Words on the street - of, by and for. Of, By and For. Bart Decrem, Joe Costello and Mitch Kapor have launched ob4.org, which stands for "of, by and for" -- as in words paraphrased from Abraham Lincoln in his timeless Gettysburg Address. [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 11:12:17 AM

OL @ the Mountain Winery Band on Fire @ the Mountain Winery. Eric came to our performance at the Mountain Winery and promised me to sneak a camera in. Here is one of his photos taken with a Treo. Thanks Eric.. [Ottmar Liebert] 7:35:38 AM

Archiving Joyce Archiving Joyce. The James Joyce Collection at Buffalo. Also have a look at Analogy, a Finnegans Wake website. [The Cartoonist] 7:01:49 AM