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February 27, 2005
Laptops for everyone
Recently, I was reminded how important machine portability is the age of broadband/WiFi/VPN. Not that this is new to anyone, but I had an experience where a Developer was spending quite a bit of time keeping his environments (office and home) in synch.
He and I went over his machine requirements and decided a desktop was the way to go. He was pleased with the performance, etc. However, it wasn't too long before he was doing the occasional task remotely. He noticed immediately that a laptop would have been much more convenient. Unforunately, the dollars from the budget have been spent and acquiring a laptop for him isn't in the cards at the moment.
Which brings me to a basic tenet for my newly created "20 Rules of Entreprenuership" -- get everyone a laptop! No more desktops. The ability to work remotely is a requirement in this day and age, not a luxury (Of course, this ties into the corollary "Provide VPN Access to the Network")
Posted by davehod at 11:58 AM | Comments (0)
February 16, 2005
Showtime/Yahoo Join The Shift
Showtime has announced that they will be streaming the season premiere of "Fat Actress" on Yahoo.
Yet another content network sees the future for what it is -- The Shift. Not only are they streaming it on demand, thereby meeting the definition of "Time Shifted Media", they are also distributing it over the Web/IP.
Who knows, but maybe the BitTorrent push of late (shutting down Loki, etc) has really opened some eyes?
Posted by davehod at 10:58 AM | Comments (0)
February 07, 2005
jPodder/i18n
I signed on a few weeks back as Committer on the jPodder project. Specifically, I volunteered to help Christophe take the awesome jPodder and make it i18n aware.
Currently, we are working on externalizing all text in English. Once we have completed the task, we'll be looking for a few volunteers to help with language translation.
If you are interested, please contact the Dev list at jpodder-develop at lists.sourceforge.net
Posted by davehod at 12:10 PM | Comments (0)
RSS/Network World Conference, 4/20/2005
Quick note - I'll be presenting "RSS and Delivering Syndicated Content over Real-Time Networks" at the Network World Conference/Expo on 4/20/2005 in Toronto.
The aim of the talk is to provide an overview of RSS and its' many flavors and discuss how to utilize real-time networks (like MSN) for delivery.
Hope to see you there
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