TechnoMagicians Blog

I thought I would mess around with the new Google Earth and try overlaying Radar images. Obviously with a bit of work this can be really useful. Click here for a full image of the following: BTW, if I was running one of the current mapping software companies I'd be filling my pants and looking […]

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I'm not sure why I'm writing about this as I couldn't careless about 24 Hour Laundry and I have not been following all the hoopla about it other than from reading a few blog postings. Once I found out Marc Andreesen is involved I was even more uninterested as I haven't really been impressed with anything Marc […]

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I'd have to agree with this: According to Nokia chief strategy officer, Tero Ojanperä, Skype must branch out or die. “Someone needs to make money… [Skype] cannot survive on voice calls alone, it needs to find a business model,” he said. Shype (Skype) will die if they don't work with standard open protocols and forget […]

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Lot of talk about Ajax being a pull (poll) only technique that has its limitations. This is true but there are also implications for using open http socket connections as well. I've made comments over there and quoted here: Brent and I thought of using an open connection instead of a polling connection when thinking […]

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Another Ajax type web chat has popped up on my radar. Its called ARSC (A Really Simple Chat) and can be found here. Looks like web chat apps are going to be the thing to do to show off Ajax. Makes sense. Way back a few years ago Brent and I wanted to create something […]

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Since the Ajax hype we have noticed an increased interest in BlogChat. Lace is a similar type thing you can find here. I suppose Brent and I should spruce up BlogChat a bit and bring it into the current year. We really haven't touched the code in over two years so its due for a […]

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Two or three years ago a business partner and I researched software to do speech to text in order to index audio from video files for a company we were looking to start. The technology was available but expensive. I remember discussing this with Adam Curry about a year ago when he was looking for […]

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Here are some interesting Remote Scripting / Ajax examples. See http://www.cmswatch.com/News/Article/?421 And of course checkout this. I guess I should mention BlogChat as a Remote Scripting / Ajax example.

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Paulo sums up what I've been wanting to post about podcasting for a long while: I'm happy to read that according to Pew 6 million have heard podcasts [via Dan Gillmor], I appreciate the idea and the technology, but the more I hear about them, the more I realize that listening to podcasts is not […]

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This seemed like an appropriate blog entry for today:

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