In the XMPP session at last february’s FOSDEM I gave a brief demo of some NoTube work on how TV-style remote controls might look with XMPP providing their communication link. For the TV part, I showed Boxee, with a tiny Python script exposing some of its localhost HTTP API to the wider network via XMPP. […]
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The MacBook Air question on everyone’s lips
BY MIKE FROM BOSTON AT 01/16/08 01:06 PM Does this laptop make me look fat? From Gizmodo via Edd, to whom I posed the same vanity question yesterday. And apparently Commodore is making a comeback. Wonder if OSX would run on a chunkier machine…
Google boost Jabber + VOIP, Skype releases IM toolkit, Jabber for P2P SPARQL?
Interesting times for the personal Semantic Web: “Any client that supports Jabber/XMPP can connect to the Google Talk service” Google Talk and Open Communications. It does voice calls too, using “a custom XMPP-based signaling protocol and peer-to-peer communication mechanism. We will fully document this protocol. In the near future, we plan to support SIP signaling.” […]
Some music words
Apple just released GarageBand, a package designed to flood the Internet with music made by arhythmic, tone-deaf computerists such as myself. In preparation for this, I have been trying to find out what I don’t know.Martin learned me some music words. Octave. After-touch. MIDI. Transpose. Loop. Sample. USB-MIDI interface. Gate. Reverb. Crotchet (and minim, etc.). […]