June 15, 2006
20 entries filed this day
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David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development
Update: A HUGE thanks to Daniel for providing some EXTREMELY beneficial information and a list of links that at face value confirm what I assumed was probably the case… This is another case, similar to the recent O’ReillyGate incident in which standard, legal, and ethicial business practices continued to take place during a time when ANYTHING that even remotely smells like an attempt to “own” and idea, or a phrase, term, etc… both looks and quacks just the same.
Filed at 3:16am
Really Far Out Emerging Tech at the Future Salon
David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development
Far out as in going life in 11 years and 306 days from today. Really far out as in 100,000 km (62,000 mile) out into space. I remember late night conversations after Future Salons where some of the more-out-there Saloners would marvel over Dyson Spheres and Space Elevators .
Filed at 3:45am
Certain audio files cause iPod nano reset
David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development
About a month ago I asked for opinions for a Cause for iPod nano spontaneous reset? . I seemed to run into this problem every couple of months on my iPod nano. I didn’t have any good theories, but fortunately, other people did. And, even more fortunately, Billy Oregon performed some detective work and found two MP3 files that can consistently cause a soft reset after selecting the Menu item. You can find his blog and sample video below. Anyone at Apple reading this? Fix it please!
Filed at 4:16am
Wiki’s Progress
Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, TheContentStudio.com · content co-creation / insights / Knowledge Management / what's new
Economists now use the Big Mac as a guide to inflation and the cost of living across the world, assuming that the price of the Big Mac will always tend towards equilibrium. In the IT business Microsoft might equally be used as a point of comparison for the popularity of community tools. If Microsoft start using Wikis then...
Filed at 4:34am
NSA Combing Through MySpace
Bruce Schneier · Founder and Chief Technical Officer, Counterpane · Security
No surprise . New Scientist has discovered that Pentagon's National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks.
Filed at 8:13am
If It Bleeds, It Leads (To Less Money For The Artists)
David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development
[QUICK-UPDATE] : Russ (Miles), in whom is the co-idea-developer of this mentioned project, will be home around 5pm UK time at which point we plan to launch our posts regarding the announcement at the same time. Sorry for the hold up, but this is something we developed together in the early stages, and then began to invite a few of our hacking friends to join us, which things just blossomed from there… None-the-less, we both want to be a part of the official announcement, so @ around 5pm London/UK expect to see the mentioned announcement. –
Filed at 8:47am
Flock It
Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, TheContentStudio.com · content co-creation / Knowledge Management / review
I’ve been playing around with the beta of flock, the new browser that integrates with Flickr, delicious and your blog tools, as well as providing new search functions. At first glimpse flock looks like the integration a user like me needs. For example being slow on the uptakethe first thing I did to blog flock...
Filed at 10:49am
Cool Broadcast Up-Timer
David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development
More than a thousand years ago when I worked as a DJ at an album-oriented-rock (AOR) station, we relied on up-timers to keep us on track with our show clock and to monitor airtime. As a podcaster, I’ve been craving just such a tool. You can buy an expensive up-timer from a company like Broadcast Supply Worldwide. But if you’re lucky enough to have a Mac, you can get a software version for free.
Filed at 11:15am
Flocking
Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, TheContentStudio.com · Knowledge Management / what's new
This is a test of the flock blogging facility. Well a bit more than a test. I haven't been able in wordpress to use tags so far. Flock has a straightforward way of doing it. technorati tags:browser, flock
Filed at 11:17am
[ANN] The Viberavetions Project : A Call Out To Artists/Musicians, Music Industry Profressionals, and Pure and True Fans Of The
David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development
DISCLAIMER: This is not an anti-label project. This is a pro-Artist/Musician and pro-Fans of these same Artists/Musicians. There is nothing about this that suggests that the labels can’t be a part of this… In fact we hope that MANY, if not ALL of them embrace these ideas, while gaining a real-world understanding of just how much power exists when the ideals of a free culture are embraced and built upon. —
Filed at 1:48pm
Stuff That Caught My Eye
David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development
Bootcamp vs Parallels [NotebookReview] Parallels announced today that their Desktop for Mac virtualization software has emerged from beta. Pick up a copy for 50 bucks. So? Apple’s Boot Camp or Parallel’s Virtual Machine? As far as I’m concerned, it’s Boot Camp for speed and true Windows performance and virtual machines (any implementation, not just this one) for data sharing and interaction. The Notebook Review article is a nice summary.
Filed at 2:45pm
Dan York Responds to Business Week Article
David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development
I enjoy reading Dan York’s blog and listening to the excellent Blue Box VoIP Security podcast that he does with Jonathan Zar, and Dan recently posted an interesting response to the Business Week article about the Pena/Moore VoIP hacking story that has been getting a ton of attention. Dan agrees with the article’s conclusion that it’s important to consider security when deploying VoIP systems, but takes issue with how it uses a broad brush to paint all things VoIP-related as having the same level of security issues and concerns.
Filed at 3:15pm
Skype eBay Integration Coming Slowly
David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development
Like many others I was not particularly impressed with the announcement that came out of the eBay Developers conference this week indicating some partial Skype/eBay integration would now be turned on. Techdirt points out that nine months after eBay purchased Skype, just now adding a Skype Me button to certain select auctions seems like a very small step, and questions whether eBay users really even want this feature in the first place and how it could possibly justify the multi-billion dollar price tag eBay paid for Skype. I know I’m not the only one hoping there’s more to eBay’s plans for Skype that we haven’t seen yet.
Filed at 3:15pm
An IMS Application Example Based on SIP Servlets and VoiceXML
David A Chappell · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development
Dev2Dev has just published an excellent article by David Burke and Darragh O’Flanagan that describes an IMS application based on SIP servlets and VoiceXML. The article provides nice introductions to IMS and VoiceXML and then goes on to demonstrate how to build a full-featured Personal Assistant application that is consistent with the IMS architecture. Chock full of flow-charts, sample code, and an extensive resource list, this article looks like a great starting point for developers looking to learn about IMS, SIP Servlets, and VoiceXML.
Filed at 3:15pm
Movie-Plot Threat Contest Winner
Bruce Schneier · Founder and Chief Technical Officer, Counterpane · it security
I can tell you one thing, you guys are really imaginative. The response to my Movie-Plot Threat Contest was more than I could imagine: 892 comments. I printed them all out -- 195 pages, double sided -- and spiral bound them, so I could read them more easily. The cover read: "The Big Book of Terrorist Plots." I tried not to wave it around too much in airports.
Filed at 4:37pm
ARC sees 8.6% annual growth in supply chain management market
Randy Littleson · CEO, Kinaxis · Enterprise Applications / general news
ARC has released their views on the growth of the supply chain management (SCM) marketplace where they expect to see 8.6% annual growth.
Filed at 4:41pm
Network Analysis Gets Personal
Scott Haugdahl · Chief Technology Officer, WildPackets · industry / Networking
The rumors are true: The WildPackets OmniPeek Personal edition is out. Since it’s available at no charge, perhaps “OmniPeek Free” or “OmniFree” may have been a better moniker, but for some strange reason that movie Free Willy keeps popping to...
Filed at 4:49pm
Notes from SLA
Barry Graubart · Vice President of Product management, Alacra · content business / Knowledge Management
Baltimore was home to 5,000+ attendees of the Special Libraries Association annual conference this week. For a recap of the week's events, take a look at the following blogs: The InfoToday blog has extensive coverage, with details of everything from...
Filed at 5:06pm
There are easier ways...
Joel Spolsky · CEO, Fog Creek Software · Software Development
Paul Boutin struggles with remote desktop assistance. “It took me most of an hour to do the installations and find the right combination of settings,” he reports. Dude, try Copilot . Secure out of the box, works through all firewalls, and never takes more than a couple of minutes to get working.
Filed at 5:55pm
Gates to Step Down
Joel Spolsky · CEO, Fog Creek Software · Software Development
As of now, Microsoft stock is surprisingly quiet given the announcement that Bill Gates will step down. It should probably be going down. Ozzie is smart but not in the same class as Bill Gates. And it's really Ballmer that needs to go.
Filed at 6:00pm
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