Friday, February 28, 2003

Mobile Blogging moblog, moblogging, Mobile Blogging checkout Joi's blog site on mobile blogging. Wired News "Now Bloggers Can Hit the Road" Examples: Joi Ito's Moblog TokyoTidBits more to come ... 1:38:53 PM         trackback []   comment []

Flash Comm Server & Contribute Last night the CTO of Macromedia Japan visited the BA office and presented on Flash Comm Server, and Contribute. He showed us some pretty intense demos and mentioned that as of 12/2002 74% of flash players are at Flash Player 6(needed for MX features). Flash Communication Server DEMOS: RandomMedia has an really interesting demo of Flash Comm Server. Goto the site and click on Enter the Dream Domain link ... if you have a webcam on your PC/Laptop you can record personal messages and send them using Flash. Seems like Flash will encode the video, send it to their server, and leave a streamable copy on their server. I am not exactly sure if Flash will encode it on your computer before sending it off to them, but it's really fast. Tanaka-san(CTO) mentioned that they use a Sorensen video encoder, not the same one used in Quicktime, but similar. Another demo was of how realtime data can be combined w/ streaming video. Take a look at this Goodyear Tire site called The Eagle F-1 Experience. While the video is being streamed, data is also being streamed for the gear shifts, position on the road, etc. They mentioned that the video, audio, and data are separate. Another kewl feature in this demo was the fact that you can change camera angles very quickly without re-buffering. Here's a new term: PIP or Person in Presentation. This was demo'd by Jeremy Allaire for the MX series launch. The speaker and surrounding interactive elements make the presentation more engaging. Takes a peek at the Macromedia Executive Presentation. Looks like another buzzword boys and girls. Tanaka-san mentioned that PIP will be used alot for corporate Investor Relations sections. Jacob Nielson just wrote a brief on IR, "Investor Relations Website Design". Contribute: Basically a tool for people who don't know/don't need to know HTML. It's built with the Dreamweaver engine so the HTML spit out is ok. If you don't like Dreamweaver's HTML, then you can handcode your HTML, bring them into Dreamweaver to create templates, and use them with Contribute. This tool won't let you touch the HTML, and was built this way on purpose. Tanaka-san was saying that large corporations' content bottleneck is the Webmaster/Site Designers. As sites become more complex we tend to defend our code; therefore, slowing down the process. This tools purpose is to ease that pain. In the US it seems that large corporations are purchasing this in thousands of units. Macromedia says that this demo download has the highest purchase percentage of all their tools. The Japanese version is scheduled to be released soon. There are NO server components that need to be installed - kewl. hu hu. 1:29:14 PM         trackback []   comment []

CFC (ColdFusion Components) (link to PDF doc: The New Architecture) This is new CF technology enables you to do OOP-like programming, and easily consume/publish Web Services. I'm prototyping and using CFCs for the new Photo Catalog DAM type system. I'm thinking about using IBM's Directory Server for LDAP based user security, but I'm going to wait until the Vignette engineer from Australia gets here. I met him on my last trip and this guy is a Enterprise-level site architect. He's got MAD SKILLZ. The CFC stuffs is really neat. I'm combining it w/ Fusebox3, but there's a FuseboxMX coming out .. no date or anything set yet. Until it comes out and the bugs are worked out I'll use the Fusebox3+CFC combo. 1:26:58 PM         trackback []   comment []

DAM = Digital Asset Management Basically to management your digital files from photos to video files .. and regular DOC files. I guess since alot of what was paper are now files .. there needs to be a better way of organizing the stuffs. I'm working on a DAM-like system .. gonna do a mockup system in CFMX using the new CFCs. 1:11:07 PM         trackback []   comment []

CFLDAP Well, on a more serious note ... LDAP, LDAP, LDAP going through ColdFusion MX's docs on CFLDAP, which is a tag that enables you to access a LDAP server. For those of you non-technical people .. don't worry about it. Nah ;) it's basically like an address book, but better. That's all I know for now. Let me do some more reading. 1:07:53 PM         trackback []   comment []

Tech Todo OK .. here's my tech todo/study list (in no particular order): - XML .. as you can tell - SOAP - WebServices - LDAP - ColdFusionMX (CFCs mainly) - FlashMX (Actionscript, integrating it w/ Fusebox) - OOP - VirtualPC/VMWare (setup test environments CF server + DB server + LDAP server) - Java, C#, C++, C .... shit this looks like a list of stuff Joe already knows! I need a mind meld app .. Joe can you make one by .. tomorrow? 1:03:30 PM         trackback []   comment []