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Thursday, August 23, 2001 |
 Larry Staton posted his Yahoo instant messaging functionality on his home page. However, he wants a Jabber implementation. I do too. He also has an interesting Manila story that anyone still doing page-based site development should read.
Larry also found a great home grown broadband wireless network growing in Seattle. Clearly these people aren't worried about WEP security. The lesson is: add a personal firewall. You are as safe on a public wireless network as you are on shared broadband cable. Also, if the Congress doesn't act fast to introduce true competition into the local loop (by forcing the RBOCs to divest their data services), we will have a completely unregulated broadband wireless network in most metro areas.
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myNakada. "John Robb wants his blogs delivered over Jabber. My experiment with blog update notification raises one problem with this scalability-wise. While you want to view a blog as a "user" on Jabber, you don't want to view the connection between you and the "blog user" as a single conversation. In order to be able to notify many users, you'll want to view the update as a "chat" or "multicast" where a single message can be sent to numerous users simultaneously. I'm going to start playing with chat's on my prototype. A good goal is to simultaneously notify 10 million users simultaneously via Jabber. It's a big number, but if you can do it, you're doing something right."
Exactly. The next big development effort from Jabber is to add multicast. What may help is to write the core code of Jabber into an FPGA (field programmable gate array) for performance improvements. Also, a P2P based multicast would involve sending the update to 100 people first and then to 100 x 100 until the broadcast to 10 m is done. Also, centralized storage from Bluearc as well as (newly) inexpensive fiber at the backbone would ease the costs of such a system. By the way, thanks for the home page permalink to this Weblog!
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CNet. Sun to build an alternative to PassPort. Unless they get wide distribution via AOL or Yahoo, its all over.
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Courtesy of Lawrence Lee: Here is a quick way to add presence and chat to your site (Yahoo Messenger).
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DJ Adams closes the loop with a Perl module for XML-RPC over Jabber.
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I just got a late birthday present from my wife: Martin Van Creveld's seminal "The Transformation of War" This book analyzes how warfare changed from a "rational" Clausewitzian conflict to an irrational enterprise where groups don't really even know what they are fighting for. He argues, persuasively, that in this next century nations will conclude that internal enemies are more confused, difficult to cope with, and destructive than external enemies. Creveld is the leading military historian at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and therefore has a ringside seat on this transformation of warfare.
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Oplayo. This is a great little company funded out of Nokia ventures. It is now run by some ex-Akamai guys (hence the recent deal on their homepage). It is a media format that lets you stream video from your server without any server-side code. All a Weblogger needs to do is post the file to his/her Weblog and when the file is clicked by a visitor, the file sends a small java aplet that runs in the visitors browser that manages the stream. Very cool.
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CNet. Harris Polling and SPAM watchdog MAPs make up. I've worked with Harris and these guys pelt you with so much spam it chokes your inbox. They got most of their names using a hard to find opt out box on Excite.
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Whump.com More on the Weblog collaboration front. Notice how Bill Humphries incorporates Yahoo instant messaging into his site. It gives you his status (is he connected right now or not) and a way to message him using a Web interface. Very cool.
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Jabber.com I tried three different clients but none of them worked. The commercial client finally installed. However, I just found out that Jabber doesn't support AIM. WTFO? I wish I could put all of the blogs I like into my buddy list and get every update sent to me, not as a RSS file but the entire blog contents so I could run them on my home machine. That is a Groove killer.
My username is JohnRobb on the Jabber gateway.
Pointed out to my by Josh Lucas:
Jabber.com "Unfortunately, for the last few months AOL has been actively working to block AIM subscribers who wish to connect to AIM through Jabber's AIM Transport. While jabber.org programmers have addressed these blockage attempts through various means (including updated versions of the AIM Transport), at this time some public Jabber servers have not yet installed the most recent versions of the AIM Transport (thus disabling communications with AIM), and even those servers which have installed the most recent versions may be experiencing intermittent communications to AIM. We apologize for the inconvenience and sincerely hope that AOL, along with all other providers of IM services, will work together for true interoperability." Let's turn this around. AIM is closed due to a fear of Microsoft. We need to create an environment where no developer no matter how small is afraid of doing the right thing out of fear of Microsoft.
10:57:55 AM
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Today is my 15th wedding anniversary. Picture to follow soon.
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Dan Gillmor. "Craig Burton asks if I used the Be OS or bought a copy. Yes to both (bought a copy at Fry's a couple of years ago), though I haven't used it in a while even though I loved its good points. I've also bought copies of Red Hat Linux, Mandrake and FreeBSD, because I believe in supporting independent software companies." I bought one too.
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Groove
Enterprise pricing for Groove 1.1 is $49 per user. Pricing for individual purchase of Groove will be announced later this year. Groove Preview Edition, a subset of the full Groove product, is available at no cost for personal use or business trial.
As far as I can see, there isn't anything that Groove can do that can't be done better via desktop Weblogs (or Webapps) connected via Jabber. I don't mean this as a slam on Groove, I just think that it can be done better with a personal Weblog at its core and associated Webapps as tools. It would also be great if Groove had an API for its network and supported XML-RPC. That would allow open up the world of P2P document sharing and collaboration.
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Thanks to JY for helping me fix my Google search of UserLand resources feature.
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WSJ. MP3.com is sued by 50 songwriters and publishers.
'MP3.com officials were not available for comment on the latest lawsuit against the San Diego-based company, which had been forced to pay out more than $160 million to major labels and publishers to resolve a different copyright suit. That landmark suit stemmed from a database of more than 80,000 albums that MP3.com created as part of an "online music locker" that allowed users to store music digitally and later access it via any computer connected to the Internet.'
This is a money grab. No damage was done. It is just a way for these folks to make a quick buck at MP3.com's expense.
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