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NoteTaker 1.9 adds plug-in architecture, more. AquaMinds Software on Friday released NoteTaker 1.9, an update to the developer's note-taking utility. The major new feature is support for plug-ins in the form of Java Applets. This release includes five sample plug-ins: SketchPad, a freehand drawing and text tool; VisualMap, a diagramming utility; Table, which creates simple Excel-style tables; DBQuery, a JDBC database query tool; and Calc, a basic calculator. [MacCentral News] 6:04:35 PM

Client-Side Podcasting Apps. The client-side podcast-authoring tools are starting to appear. I just watched a cool video demo of one called MixCast Live developed by James Prudente. I haven't downloaded a demo, but it looks like a pretty nice app for Windows given the limitations of the Windows Mixer. [Blogarithms] 4:28:12 PM

Mobile and Open: A Manifesto. One of the differences between mobile computing and the desktop kind is that mobile hardware is generally contained in a sealed package - you don't open up your mobile phone and reinstall the operating system, for example. Under such conditions, notes Howard Rheingold, "Only a cockeyed optimist would forecast an open, user-driven, entrepreneurial future for the mobile Internet." Still, "This should not prevent us from trying, however. Sometimes, envisioning the way things ought to be can inspire people to work at making it that way. That's what manifestos are for." Exactly. By Howard Rheingold, TheFeature, January 5, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 4:08:08 PM

Co-creation. Summary: Learner-centric no more. My focus is shifting to the performance of connections. I post to Internet Time Blog almost daily, and I hope my words retain more value than yesterday's newspaper. After all, the Blog is where I share my discoveries an [Internet Time Blog] 1:09:57 PM

The Emperor's New Blogs. When he announced that the blogging emperor had no clothes, Stuart Henschel spoke for many ur-bloggers. He simply said he was giving up on traditional blogging. He's changing, the world's changing, and blogging hasn't changed much. I've gone through t [Internet Time Blog] 1:08:29 PM

Is this the Future of Media?. Museum of Media History presents an eight-minute mind-stretcher about the future of media over the next decade. The story: Background: Tim Berners-Lee, Amazon (a store that recommends), Google, TiVo (unschackles TV from time), Blogs, Friendster, NewsBo [Internet Time Blog] 12:59:54 PM

My wish for the future of e-learning - with a businessman hat on. Is content king in e-learning industry? May be a doubtful YES today, it is a definite NO in a slightly longer term. The marginal cost of reproduction of digital content is near zero. The upfront cost of course production may be huge and there may be copyright protection put in place by the copyright owners. This will not stop other people doing the same. Note that copyright only protect the By noemail@noemail.org (Albert Ip). [Random Walk in E-Learning] 12:46:31 PM

Archos PMA400 Video Playing PDA Archos has announced their new PMA 400, a portable video device that doubles as a PDA, running the Qtopia environment on top of Linux (like the Sharp Zaurus series). The little stud muffin also has built-in Wi-Fi, as well as a 30GB hard drive, so we're talking quite a bit of function in a device that shouldn't cost more than most high-end Pocket PCs. Archos makes good products with often unnecessarily obtuse interfaces¡Xmight not be for everybody, but it'll be Tweakish Delight for nerds. (Thanks, Bruno!) Product Page [Archos] - lev (tips@gizmodo.com) [Gizmodo] 9:38:34 AM

First Pictures of the Motorola iTunes Phone A cruddy little picture has surfaced on Apple Insider, showing what might be the first glimpse of the fabled Motorola and Apple "iPhone"¡Xor as I think it's probably better to call it, the "iTunes Phone." I actually talked to the Moto exec who showed it off last night and he wasn't real hep on discussing it, but he did say to expect the product announcement in Q1ish of this year. The interface is "just like an iPod," except you use the phone's joystick instead of a built-in scroll wheel. Basically you'll just hook it up via USB as a secondary device with a special playlist in iTunes and it will sync up just like a regular iPod would. There are even plans to purchase songs via cellular, if that floats your boat. The phone will be carrier independent, and is essentially a traditional Motorola phone with a special iTunes/iPod program running on top (and it's Java). It really sounds like it's just an iTunes program, which means it's quite possible that most Motorola phones next year will have the program, as well. Hopes of an phone-wide Apple-designed UI are premature, it seems. Motorola previews iTunes phone (images [AppleInsider] - lev (tips@gizmodo.com) [Gizmodo] 9:37:52 AM

Netflix Adds Profiles Netflix has a great new feature that goes live today called Profiles, which allows you to set up separate queues for up to five different family members. You'll still have the same amount of DVDs checked out at a time, but you can assign a certain amount per Profile (one for your wife, two for your girlfriend, etc.). Hacking Netflix has been beta testing it for a couple of weeks and has a nice write up of the service. Netflix Launches Profiles: New Queue Sharing Feature [HackingNetflix] - lev (tips@gizmodo.com) [Gizmodo] 9:37:26 AM

Headless iMac == iHome? - lev (tips@gizmodo.com) [Gizmodo] 9:36:35 AM