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The link isn't working for me now, so here's the Google cache:
On December 9, 1968, Douglas C. Engelbart and the group of 17 researchers working with him in the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, CA, presented a 90-minute live public demonstration of the online system, NLS, they had been working on since 1962. The public presentation was a session in the of the Fall Joint Computer Conference held at the Convention Center in San Francisco, and it was attended by about 1,000 computer professionals. This was the public debut of the computer mouse. But the mouse was only one of many innovations demonstrated that day, including hypertext, object addressing and dynamic file linking, as well as shared-screen collaboration involving two persons at different sites communicating over a network with audio and video interface.
WiFi Blackberry in the works. Supposedly you will be able to roam between cellular and 802.11x WiFi networks. And make voice over IP (VOIP) calls when connected to the internet. They don't give dates, but do say "not before the spring."
802.11x wireless networking is the only thing missing from the Treo 600. (Well, okay, I'd take a 2 megapixel camera and a higher resolution screen.) We are definitely getting there. Next year is going to be fun.
Steve Jobs on the future of the music industry.
MobileWhack looks like a good source for sating your mobile tech fetish.
I'm trying to put together an informal list of news related blogs to pass on to my friend A. who is contemplating moving his news media centered web site into a more weblog format (or maybe I don't have that right, but my task is the same regardless.) He knows there is something going on with "blogs" but I believe Drudge is as close as his personal experience comes. I'd like to point him to 10 - 20 real blogs that he could read to get a sense of what is going on out there. Maybe a very short summary along with each URL. Care to help?
Instapundit, Talking Points, Brad DeLong, Juan Cole, Daily Kos, all jump to my mind. A is a numbers man so, for instance, I think Kos is more interesting to him than, say, The Agonist, since Kos has lots of poll and media numbers while The Agonist is pretty much just repackaging stories from several media outlets for easy consumption.
No doubt there are much better examples. Feel free to help me out in the comments.
Mimi Smartypants has a book deal:
To smush the story down to a sentence or nine, because we are running overlong here, a wonderful woman from HarperCollins UK contacted me a while back and said, "We think your site should be made into a book." I laughed. If I had wanted to write a book I would have written a book. Then she kept talking and I realized it was not a prank call, and I realized I am JUST NOT PUNK ROCK ENOUGH to say no to HarperCollins UK and their checks. I feel very guilty about this book thing, because many incredibly worthy authors struggle and suffer to get their books published, and many more toil away at brilliant novels in obscurity. I go blah blah during my lunch hour on my happy little subdomain, writing something that is NOT A BOOK, and out of the blue comes a publishing contract.And best of all, it's already done:
100% no new content! All crap you have read before, just on the printed page and in a different order! However, maybe you will find that comforting.Congratulations Mimi! Everyone else should go buy it.
Holy cow that was hard. But I finally have my picture uploading scripts working. Parsing mutipart mime emails is not exactly my idea of fun. But now I can mail right from my phone to a special email address that then automatically posts the images to my new photolog.
No doubt you'll want to keep track of the nonstop excitement over there by adding it to your homepage. For guests I still have to enable email notification (as well as weblogs.com pings) for these auto posts.
Yesterday I downloaded a 3.5 meg MP3 to my phone as I walked around the LES. Not sure how long it took, but a while later I pulled the phone out of my pocket and it was done. I couldn't find the file at first, but then I opened up the MP3 player, and the song had gone right into the library. Automagically. And the MP3 player app isn't even a standard app - I downloaded and installed it myself, so this is some very sophisticated integration. Nice job Treo.
PIctures from my new Treo 600 moved to inside the comment thread...
Just got my Treo 600. It's charging now. I tried to make this post using it but it ate two consecutive attempts because I kept pressing a wrong key. I'll have to unlearn and relearn a lot of keyboard muscle memory. What I know as the comma key now means, apparently, go back to the main menu and don't bother remembering the current content of this textarea posting box.
This thing is significantly more sophisticated than my last mobile device. I think it lacks a bit of design elegance that the hiptop had (both in terms of the device itself, and the software interface,) but it more than compensates, as far as I'm concerned, by being much more like a small computer than like a phone. I can SSH into my server from it! Wow wow wow wow wow. It's not perfect, but you can see it from here.
Many more, possibly too many more, comments to come.