Tech4Communicators

For anyone that has a job that involves using technology to communicate.

March 15, 2004

Money brings Skype closer to mainstream. A $19 million investment and new partnerships with handset and headset makers could help the Net-phoning provider offer its customers access to the traditional telephone network. [CNET News.com]
11:20:10 PM

Ted's Latest Gotta Try Email

Just sent this to a friend, thought you might like to check this stuff out too!

here is my latest you gotta try this stuff, list:

Ted

BitTorrent and Radio Userland: see this Wired article at:
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,62651,00.html

How To At:
http://grumet.net/rssBitTorrentIntegration/radioClient.html

Lazlo:
http://laszlosystems.com/

You Gotta Try This One!!!
http://laszlosystems.com/lps/laszlo-in-ten-minutes/

Laszlo Presentation Server
Developer Edition (DE):
LPS DE is designed for professional Web application developers. It maximizes productivity by leveraging industry-standard development skills, tools and workflow practices immediately familiar to Web application developers. A background in XML, Java, and/or DHTML is helpful. Advanced developers will appreciate Laszlo's elegant support of object-oriented constructs. LPS DE is free, and can be downloaded today.
http://laszlosystems.com/developers/download/

Onfolio:
http://www.onfolio.com

7:28:10 PM

Welcome to the ‘new’ Web, same as the ‘old’ Web. CNN on newsreaders: “Hang on to your hats boys and girls, because your experience of the World Wide Web is about to change, possibly for the first time since Mosaic...” [ranchero.com]
7:08:02 PM

Wired: "A demo publishing system launched Friday by a popular programmer and blogger merges two of this season's hottest tech fads -- RSS news syndication and BitTorrent file sharing -- to create a cheap publishing system for what its author calls 'big media objects.'" [Scripting News]
6:41:17 PM

The media-player fireswamp. By way of Christopher Allen, I got to meet John Buckman here at SXSW. John founded Lyris, a company whose hosted email list services I have used on behalf of clients. Although I prefer RSS to email as a direct marketing tool, the latter isn't going away anytime soon. So it's been a pleasure to rely on Lyris, a service that runs with impeccable integrity. John's new venture is Magnatune, an online record label I discovered a few months back whose endearing motto is "We are not evil." Equally endearing is this snippet from Magnatune's purchase page: ... [Jon's Radio]
6:39:50 PM

Onfolio good research tool, but $30, still undecided

I spent part of this evening checking on Onfolio. It requires you to install .Net, and results in a research took and file system, being installed on your computer.

However, I am not sure it delivers more than the existing Copernic products, and Copernic Agent is still free, while Onfolio is $30. For example Copernic Summarizer does just that it summarizes info from web pages, Onfolio seems more like a NetFile Cabinent than anything else. Not sure I will spring for the $30 once my trial software expires!

6:37:00 PM

Lazlo Worth A Look

Guess even though I have seen some of the results of Lazlo on Marc's blog, I still did not get what it was.

Since visiting the corporate site I have more of an understanding that it is a development platform for rich multimedia Internet apps. From the corporate web site:

Laszlo Presentation Server
Developer Edition (DE):
LPS DE is designed for professional Web application developers. It maximizes productivity by leveraging industry-standard development skills, tools and workflow practices immediately familiar to Web application developers. A background in XML, Java, and/or DHTML is helpful. Advanced developers will appreciate Laszlo's elegant support of object-oriented constructs. LPS DE is free, and can be downloaded today.

I think the guys in Vancouver at Clipstream might be interested in this, as their technology is Java based, and does great video streaming.

6:26:50 PM