TechnoMagicians Blog

This is what I had to say about Orb on Jan 10th: Ok, I must not be getting something here. Why in my life time would I ever pay a monthly service fee to access my own video, photos etc from my own computer??? Just maybe I'd pay for software to do this which is […]

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Since I've announced the still unofficial KosmoBlogs here and here before I thought I might as well announce the unofficial Kosmo Business Cards as well. Build Your Own Custom Business Cards In Minutes Create color custom business cards online Choose from 10,000+ business card backbrounds Design online & proof professional cards in 5 minutes Easy-to-use […]

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This Ineen thing looks pretty interesting. Unlike the hyped up Skype these guys actually use SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) and other open standards rather than the being proprietary like Shype (I think I'll start calling Skype Shype from now on). Should integrate well with current VoIP providers etc.

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Seems to me Mark Cuban is clued in most of the time. The latest being, he has joined the fight to help Grokster defend their legal battle against MGM's peer-to-peer lawsuit. If anyone can take on MGM it would be the Maverick Mark. This is just the tail end of what he has to say […]

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Interesting use of a computer game in the classroom: Rylands incorporates Myst by projecting the games onto an interactive whiteboard and then sitting amongst his pupils to watch and discuss the content in a shared context. He focuses on developing their creative writing skills using the games to enhance their descriptive language, and to improve […]

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Wow, it wasn't long ago (Feb 1st and 8th, 2005) I wrote about Remote Scripting, Javascript and DHTML with reference to Gmail and Google Maps. In no time this Ajax hype has taken the web by storm. The hype was started by this article posted by Jesse James Garret.  I was just going to point […]

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An Ipsos-Reid survey concluded that “the average weekly number of spam e-mail messages dropped from 68 per cent in 2003 to 49 per cent last year”. I'd have to dissagree because we do not see that sort of pattern whatsoever at SimpleFilter. Here is an article and a post on the Ipsos-Reid survey.  

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Not that I'm saying one should follow Mark Cuban's stock picks but I thought it was interesting that he has Tucows as one of his stock picks (Ticker: TCOW.OB). Like Mark says, do your own research. Update: There is a discussion on Joey's blog post about this.

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I'm not entirely sold on VoIP just yet, especially with stuff like this in the news: VoIP's got a problem… though, it might not be the problem you thought it had. It's not the fact that three of the biggest VoIP providers all had massive outages in the past four days. [via TechDirt]

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From TechWeb News I think: By 2008, the Framingham, Mass.-based research firm forecasted, worldwide revenues of anti-spam solutions — software and hosted services — will run to $1.7 billion. In 2003, the last full year for which hard numbers are available, anti-spam spending was only $300 million.

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