Month: May 2003

  • Jabber/XMPP vs. SIP/SIMPLE

    Jabber.org:

    Jabber, Inc. has published a whitepaper analyzing XMPP/Jabber and SIP/SIMPLE as potential instant messaging standards. Must reading!

    The full whitepaper [48k pdf] compares the verbosity of a SIMPLE message as compared to an XMPP/Jabber message as as well as a SIMPLE presence packet vs. a Jabber/XMPP presence packet.  The Jabber packets are considerably smaller due to massive headers used for SIMPLE.

    Disclaimer: I’m a Jabber kinda guy, and an open source/open standards kinda guy, so my judgement is clouded.  You have been warned.

  • Blogshares via XML-RPC

    Blogshares now has an XML-RPC API.  It’s pretty darn comprehensive, though perhaps a little complex with the session stuff.

    I’d like to get in, grab the info, and get out with as little complexity as possible.  I understand that session info would be required for complex transactions over XML-RPC, but what about guerilla web services?

  • Sony Handheld Console

    CNet:

    The electronics giant, whose PlayStation 2 games console has outsold rivals from Microsoft and Nintendo 3-to-1, announced plans Tuesday for a handheld game player.

    Here’s just a taste of the tech that will be behind the handheld:

    But Sony apparently has grander plans than a nice game of Tetris. The PSP will have a screen capable of showing 3D images, stereo sound, USB 2.0 connectivity and a custom processor built on cutting-edge 90-nanometer chipmaking technology.

    The device will also use a new media format. The UMD disc is an optical disc about half the size of a DVD or CD and capable of holding 1.8GB of data.

    Look for it sometime late next year.  Expect it to be nearly impossible to find in stores for months.

  • phpTechnorati

    Reverand Jim:

    phpTechnorati v0.9 has been released. Enjoy!

    Rock, Jim.

  • Ack!

    One of these days I’m going to have a nightmare about a mob of three paned RSS aggregators chasing me.

  • xmltramp

    Aaron Swartz:

    In trying to write some code to use the new Technorati API, I noticed that all the tools for accessing XML documents sucked. So I wrote my own: xmltramp.

    Well suck is a harsh word.  Counterintuitive, perhaps.  Tons of work to get at a simple XML document, yes.  Aarons approach sees to make sense to me.

  • A CleverCactus First

    Diego:

    Now I can not only post to my weblog from within cactus, but I can also repost an email to a weblog entry (after editing of course) and, even better, I can use an RSS feed item as the source. So commenting to other posts on my own weblog is now really, really easy.

    Coooooooooool!

  • Technorati

    Sifry released the Technorati API 0.9, a RESTful interface to gobs of Technorati data.

    Phillip Pearson already has a wrapper out for Python.

  • Blojsim 0.9 Released

    I just wanted to float some props to David Czarnecki and Mark Lussier.  I posted about the lack of installation instructions for Blojsim both on my blog and at Sourceforge and recieved an email from David just a day or two later and this weekend Mark released Blojsim 0.9.  The new version now includes juicy installation instructions.

    It always brings a smile to my face when I get a quick response in regards to an open source project.

    As soon as I get a chance, I’ll try installing and playing with Blojsim 0.9.  Thanks to David, Mark, and all the other open source people like them in the universe.

  • DigitalID

    The May 8 issue of Digital ID World is out.

  • Collaboration

    Indi Young at Adaptive Path: Fifteen Tips for Remote Collaboration

  • RSS Roundup

    Craziness going on in the RSS world.  As usual, a good bit of it is happening over at Sam Ruby’s blog:

  • Eclipse+Mono

    Big Mono news:

    Today Zoltan Varga announced that he got the Eclipse IDE running on top of Mono+IKVM. A screenshot of Eclipse running with Mono can be found here

  • Integrated P2P

    Via freshmeat, KMLDonkey:

    KMLDonkey is a project that aims to fully integrate the mldonkey P2P software into the KDE desktop.

  • Snooze

    I need to find the snooze button on the kittens.  🙂

  • Generic News Roundup

    • Roller 0.9.7.2 is out.
    • Rick: “Just for S&G’s I hacked Sam’s Wx3pa.py script and wrote a 2 paned aggregator.”
    • Russ: “BlogPlanet is a new Java-based moblogging app that came out a week or so ago… What a kick ass little MIDlet!”  It looks quite slick.
    • Dave Winer: “One of the things we talked about at dinner last night was the stupidity of forking RSS among the little guys.”
    • Sam Ruby: “I can make sure that the RSS validator checks for compliance.”
    • Colin Fahey [via Slashdot]: “But, OH NO!  I actually answered two questions correctly on the test!!”  He’s got tons of other geeky stuff at his website.
    • PC World: “Microsoft later this year will offer new pricing for its Xbox Live online gaming service, raising the price of its “starter pack” by $20 and offering a new monthly subscription option for $5.99, the company announced Thursday.”
    • CNet: Sun Microsystems and Oracle plan to attend the first meeting to discuss a proposed Web services standard, despite their support of a rival specification.”  They’re talking about BPEL: Business Process Execution Language.
    • Dave Winer: “HP: Semantic Blogging. PDF.”  The demo blog feels a lot like blosxom/blojsom etc.  I don’t know what to make of it either.
  • Happy (Weblog) Birthday

    Happy birthday to Ed Cone’s weblog.

    My weblog birthday is coming up in July, though my LiveJournal goes back to September, 2001.

  • Tiki (the wiki) 1.6 Released

    From the Tiki home page:

    Plenty of good news; install script added, notable performance improvement, less memory consumption, and alot of new features! This version also fixes several bugs found in Tiki 1.5 and 1.6RC1 users that want to enjoy the new features are encouraged to upgrade.

    You should be able to check out the latest version at the tiki test site.  This project has come a long way since I first stumbled upon it.  Congrats to the Tiki team!

  • Homie

    That’s my Homie.  They’re awesome little palstic thugs that you can buy in gumball machines.  I took his picture with a Canon Powershot G2.  Did I mention that feedster now does images?

  • Rendezvous Under Linux

    rendezvousVia NewsForge, Rob Flickenger at O’Reillynet has a great weblog entry/article about using Rendezvous under Linux:

    This is one reason why I love multicast DNS service advertisements (and Rendezvous, in particular). My Linux Jukebox and Wiki are now announcing themselves like an old-time barker at the county fair. Wireless users at the cafe across the street (or anywhere within a block or so) can find my local services any time just by looking at available rendezvous sites. As if that weren’t enough, my streamer is even advertising itself as a DAAP stream, so iTunes 4 users can see that it’s available from inside iTunes itself.

    Here’s how he did it:

    First, get a multicast DNS advertiser. I found Apple’s own Posix implementation to be more than adequate. (You can download it after a free registration on Apple’s site.) The application you’re after is mDNSProxyResponderPosix, in the mDNSPosix/ directory. It built cleanly and without so much as a warning under Linux 2.4.20. Once it’s built, install it somewhere handy (like /usr/local/bin, for example.) There are a couple of other multicast DNS projects floating around (like mdnsd), but Apple’s example code seemed to work easiest out of any of the responders I tried.

    This is excellent, and it looks like Rob is using this power for good and not evil.  Next time I’m in seattle I’ll try to hunt down his Seattle Wireless node.