I’m on the horn on Skype (a voice-over-ip softphone) with Robert Kloosterhuis from the Netherlands. Robert is one of the participants in Kevin Devin’s Tech Chat podcast, which I listen to religiously, so it’s cool to get to know him a bit better.
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I have 40 Gmail invites to give out. Send me an email at steveivy@gmail.com with a couple of lines saying why you want a Gmail account. Now with POP tastiness!
Update: All gone! Thanks for playing!
I’m working on Jodi’s weblog, and want to demo Trackback for her, so this post is tracking back a funny post she made today about her “nice-boss”.
Someone on #wordpress pointed to this WordPress-powered blog from MIT’s MediaLab Europe: Human Connectedness Group Blog
Some neat stuff going on there. Subscribed.
Scott Johnson of Feedster posted about two new support tools they’ve got - a new web board, and the feedster-dev mailing list (Yahoo).
And yes, the feedster-dev idea was mine smile.
Chris Lydon’s interview with David Sifry of Technorati is pretty cool.
I’m impressed with Chris’s interviewing, and the audio quality he’s getting too.
I got a iChat video chat invitation from Sean McMains today, and I was like “I don’t have a camera…” When it popped up it was a one-way video chat - I could ">see Sean (PDF) and he got an audio feed on his end. Very very very cool!
In the “of-course-they’d-think-of-that” department, when an audio/video chat pops up, iChat automatically pauses iTunes, and restarts it upon closing the chat window. So nice. smile
VidMoBlogging by any sane name is still ENG. Electronic News Gathering is a term that came in with the advent of portable video cameras, which meant a news crew could go out into the field, easily grab video and audio of a news event, and bring it back for editing, either physically, or, later on, via satellite.
What many are calling MoBlogging is really a personal combination of ENG and OpEd. Which is really cool.
But please… “VidMoBlogging”?
I have a client who has recently started IM’ing, and is hooked. He wants to findd an IM app that he can use in his office for interoffice communications, but he doesn’t like the ads that AIM includes.
I’d suggest Jabber to a larger company with an IT dep’t to set it up, but this isn’t that company. He’s willing to pay a reasonable price for it, and it needs to run on Windows.
AIM compatibility would be a plus, if not a requirement. It doesn’t have to be purely internal (meaning it can run on the AIM network if necessary), and ease of setup and use is key.
Suggestions?
The other day I was working on a script and I wanted to get the titles for a bunch of web pages I had links to. I coded up something that downloaded each page, pulled out the title, and cached it (so that there would be no more than 1 request per URL).
Still, a lot of these were weblogs or other dynamically generated pages, so it was still a time & resource intensive operation.
It occured to me that it would be cool if there was a standard way to ask a webserver just to send you the HEAD element (and content of course) for a page. You could extract the title, meta keywords, and link elements, etc without having to fetch the entire page’s contents.
Thoughts?
