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Nextgen forum?  | http://www.tangler.com/

Created by: alive88 08:24 PM July 31 2007
Last Modified: 08:24 PM July 31 2007

URL

Pano site  | http://www.csvd.ro/panoblog/2007/07/25/varatec-monastery/

Created by: alive88 01:51 PM July 31 2007
Last Modified: 01:51 PM July 31 2007

TASK

(parent) Image Handling and layouts for Real Estate


Websites Impacted
www.falconrealty.ca
www.canterburyrealty.com
Development Site
www.re.innovationplaygrounds.com

Notes
- add listing preferences
- allow site admin to select default listing layout
- allow multiple tools for online image manipulation, and integrate third party APIs (if any)

Reference:
MLS - thumbnail - 256x200
too small
really small thumbnail - 33x30

Links
http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/#example
http://www.photoshoplab.com/examples/lightbox20_web_gallery/index.html
http://joshuaink2006.johnoxton.co.uk/templates/gallery/

Created by: alive88 12:23 PM July 30 2007
Last Modified: 03:34 AM July 31 2007

TASK

(parent) Listing Print Layout


Fix the print page for a listing - to eliminate menu and POPUP.

Created by: alive88 02:02 PM July 30 2007
Last Modified: 02:02 PM July 30 2007

PROJECT

(parent) Rent My Cottage

Created by: alive88 02:01 PM July 30 2007
Last Modified: 02:01 PM July 30 2007

PROJECT

Special Projects

Created by: alive88 12:49 PM July 30 2007
Last Modified: 12:49 PM July 30 2007

TASK

(parent) Fix HTML for Falconrealty.


in Mozilla
http://www.falconrealty.ca/
There is a band of green at the top. Not in IE though.

Created by: alive88 12:46 PM July 30 2007
Last Modified: 12:46 PM July 30 2007

TASK

Jungle Disk Update


S3 Jungle Disk Update available

Created by: alive88 12:24 PM July 30 2007
Last Modified: 12:24 PM July 30 2007

PROJECT

Developers

Created by: alive88 11:50 AM February 22 2007
Last Modified: 12:16 PM July 30 2007

PROJECT

Real Estate

Created by: alive88 10:50 PM February 26 2007
Last Modified: 12:16 PM July 30 2007

Blog Track Back

Where is IBM's EC2 and S3?


http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-php-amzmm/index.html

Created by: alive88 09:07 PM July 29 2007
Last Modified: 09:07 PM July 29 2007

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VoIP Ideas


updated (unedited/thinking aloud):
What is VoIP? voice over IP. Person to Person voice communications. Voice Messaging.
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VOICE
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Media? Communication?

Related Services
Translation. Speech to TEXT.

Clients and Client Devices?
PSTN, SIP, IM Clients. Web Sites. Streaming Audio software. Social Networks. RSS Feeds.

What am I looking for? What are the end results?

Delegation? VM/IM => CHAT/VOICE CHAT/CONFERENCE/TRANSCRIPTION/BROADCAST

Addressing? Internet Service Bus? Enum?

Ubiquitous IM / In lieu of standard phone.

Jeff Pulver's call for VoIP ideas.
http://pulverblog.pulver.com/archives/007256.html
Some interesting perspective from Jeff, and echoed in another article I recently read about the VoIP industry that I haven't got handy to offer as a link. But the summary is - the opportunity to do something interesting is available!

Brainstorming a little...
How do I use VoIP?
gizmoproject - my primary VoIP client. I have a very small IM list in Gizmo. and rarely logon. I use for outbound calling - and like the integration in WEB Applications. Mostly from a distribution work flow perspective - in that I can create data, and people can make and transcribe calls with me. Information is instantly shared as data is captured.
Skype - i will occassionally check out skype and make calls. I have used their call a bunch of people at same time feature.
Les.net - I have a few DIDs to play with, that are now associated with actual projects.
Intouch Networks - provide a "programmed" number for a charity event I am involved with.
ComputerJones.com - provides an asterix server to manage an IVR w/ inbound/outbound services setup. Web based call me now feature.
FWD - checked out, installed, uninstalled. But intend to take another look given the recent call to arms.

Unbundling? VoIP API
I have started an email and stopped several times starting to document and make a case for the creation of an API for VoIP services at In Touch and Les.  I still get excited by the notion. Why an API?
integration into applications/services, free and easy access to capabilities.

What would I build if I had time?
Online Classified phone number lending - ie extensions.
link to VoiceMail, EMail, Land Line - rules based on item status. ie if sold tell user the item was sold. if not sold forward call to my home during the day - if no answer - voicemail to email.
is this innovative?
maybe not - but it uses the technology in an effective way. (1) Privacy. (2) Complete control of incoming calls (3) Real time status on item. This feature would really encourage sellers to update status of item once sold. Adding value to web and real world environments.

Booty Line!
(temporary/privileged) numbers or extensions. w/ privacy features. linked to social networks. openid etc.
ie you can program how, when and where you receive phone calls.

Created by: alive88 05:54 AM July 24 2007
Last Modified: 03:50 PM July 28 2007

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More on Pulver


http://www.mocaedu.com/mt/archives/000311.html

Created by: alive88 12:43 PM July 28 2007
Last Modified: 12:43 PM July 28 2007

JOURNAL ENTRY

(parent) Contract Development Notes












Created by: alive88 10:40 AM July 27 2007
Last Modified: 10:40 AM July 27 2007

PROJECT

Sporticus - Sports Related Development

Created by: alive88 10:22 AM July 27 2007
Last Modified: 10:22 AM July 27 2007

PROJECT

(parent) Blogi.ca

Created by: alive88 10:18 AM July 27 2007
Last Modified: 10:18 AM July 27 2007

URL

(parent) Whiteshell Wireless  | www.WhiteshellWireless.ca

Created by: alive88 10:16 AM July 27 2007
Last Modified: 10:16 AM July 27 2007

PROJECT

(parent) Whiteshell Wireless

Created by: alive88 08:13 AM February 11 2007
Last Modified: 10:15 AM July 27 2007

JOURNAL ENTRY

EC2 image directory


Amazon has a suite of web services.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=3435361

I haven't taken the time to absorb all of them, but two are significant. EC2 and S3

EC2 (Elastic Cloud)
- you can create a scaleable abstract image of a server. This image can be immediately duplicated to scale to match demands on your services.
- you can create many different images that talk in their abstract environment - ie a server farm.
- very inexpensive.
- very scaleable.

S3 - blob storage
- incremental, inexpensive scaleable storage. great for backups, online datastores etc.
- fees based on streams (traffic) and storage

I am interested because -
I was installing Twitter, since it is all the rage - but since my IM is on my server in Dallas, running privately on a VPN, I am worried if I make my IM server public to interface with public services - I may have load issues on my server - so I thought...

hmmm I wonder if there is an EC2 image available for OpenFire IM Server. Really I know that there isn't, but there should be - and I imagine a download repository of Amazon EC2 images - very similar to the VMWare appliances that are available for download. Have you seen the VMWare appliance directory?).

VMWare link for reference.
http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/

I also imagine, small technical entrepreneurs could offer services helping people establish/develop/maintain their EC2 image farms.

These guys (random link)
http://info.rightscale.com/
look like they are marketing themselves as EC2/S3 experts

An Example here:
http://pauldowman.com/projects/ruby-on-rails-ec2/

Created by: alive88 02:50 PM July 24 2007
Last Modified: 09:42 AM July 25 2007

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Social Dashboard - feed aggregation


http://www.disruptivetelephony.com/unified_communications/index.html

Created by: alive88 09:54 PM July 24 2007
Last Modified: 09:54 PM July 24 2007

Quick Note

Recording Albums


FLAC as destination
http://audacity.sourceforge.net
notes on capturing and cleaning albums. [to follow someday]

Created by: alive88 08:29 PM July 24 2007
Last Modified: 08:29 PM July 24 2007

Quick Note

Sarah McLachlan and Chantal Kreviachuk


rare tracks
soulseek uname: pilopilao

Created by: alive88 08:27 PM July 24 2007
Last Modified: 08:27 PM July 24 2007

URL

IM and Email  | http://www.orgoo.com/

Created by: alive88 05:35 AM July 24 2007
Last Modified: 05:35 AM July 24 2007

URL

Foldera  | http://www.foldera.com

Created by: alive88 05:34 AM July 24 2007
Last Modified: 05:34 AM July 24 2007

URL

Participatory Urbanism  | http://www.urban-atmospheres.net/ParticipatoryUrbanism/index.html

Created by: alive88 05:02 AM July 24 2007
Last Modified: 05:02 AM July 24 2007

JOURNAL ENTRY

RSS Aggregation (rambling)


I have been spending some time lately thinking about Dave Whiners comments on RSS Aggregation and what is wrong with facebook...
[link here]



RSS Aggregation - I'll throw some links here. mugg I think is one site. there are many.

Social Dashboard
- receive selected RSS feeds from my social network.
- allow me to package my feeds
- openid
- profile
- foaf

My complaint with FACEBOOK (social networks et al) is that they are not representative of my real life social network. I think I will try and make this site, my real life social dashboard.

In order of priority
- openid
- my profile
- my friends
- my feeds
- feeds I read

Hmmm - has anyone created a FACEBOOK RSS application? that packages the news feed(s) from FACEBOOK as an RSS feed?

Created by: alive88 04:33 AM July 24 2007
Last Modified: 04:35 AM July 24 2007

URL

S3 Web Browsing  | http://s3browse.com/

Created by: alive88 06:29 AM July 23 2007
Last Modified: 06:29 AM July 23 2007

URL

online backup list  | http://www.listible.com/list/online-file-storage

Created by: alive88 06:28 AM July 23 2007
Last Modified: 06:28 AM July 23 2007

JOURNAL ENTRY

image stuff


http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/imap.html

Created by: alive88 12:40 AM July 23 2007
Last Modified: 12:40 AM July 23 2007

URL

more tv  | http://www.getmiro.com/

Created by: alive88 05:51 PM July 21 2007
Last Modified: 05:51 PM July 21 2007

URL

facebook applications  | http://appaholic.com

Created by: alive88 05:46 PM July 21 2007
Last Modified: 05:46 PM July 21 2007

URL

http://jaxtr.com/user/index.jsp  | http://jaxtr.com/user/index.jsp

Created by: alive88 04:45 PM July 21 2007
Last Modified: 04:45 PM July 21 2007

URL

TV on WEB  | http://zattoo.com/

Created by: alive88 04:40 PM July 21 2007
Last Modified: 04:40 PM July 21 2007

JOURNAL ENTRY

Time to rethink and rebuild


I am going to quickly rethink and repackage this application. Make it much simpler. with a few customization options. probably improve the layout/stylesheets too.

music a few tracks - been awhile since I posted music.

Created by: alive88 12:03 AM July 17 2007
Last Modified: 02:49 PM July 19 2007

JOURNAL ENTRY

Big Game


I think I would like to plan a "Big Game". Starting from degrees of separation. culminating at an unrelated event.

Created by: alive88 01:21 PM July 18 2007
Last Modified: 01:21 PM July 18 2007

JOURNAL ENTRY

Facebook. Social Networking.


I have been reading a little about facebook authentication models and openid. Ultimately, time the bear, I will try and play with both for web authentication.

Having said that - I really should build a facebook application. I have been evangelizing social networks - or rather the applications that will spring from them for quite a while. So time to put or shut up to demonstrate them.

Applications...
freecycle, sharing and garage sale applications
sports matching/challenges and scheduling
sports/game pickup
social lending (immediate transfer, social terms)
pull ads (ie as a person I subscribe to ad feeds to pay for services I want).
- the distinction really needs to be clear. IE I AM LOOKING FOR NEW CAR (filter: Toyota)
...Diapers coupons, used table hockey game
and allow the ads to become more focused as we mature within our buying cycles.
I'll post more...

farming? cooperative purchasing?

What is the advantage of an online social network.
awareness?
community?
communication?
w/in social circles.

Created by: alive88 01:18 PM July 18 2007
Last Modified: 01:18 PM July 18 2007

MUSIC

(parent) Los Angeles |  [Frank_Black_93-03_01_Los_Angeles.mp3]

Created by: alive88 12:10 AM July 17 2007
Last Modified: 12:10 AM July 17 2007

MUSIC

(parent) Curious Things |  [Tobin_Sprout_Moonflower_Plastic_10_Curious_Things.mp3]

Created by: alive88 12:08 AM July 17 2007
Last Modified: 12:08 AM July 17 2007

COLLECTION

What is a collection?

Created by: alive88 12:02 AM July 17 2007
Last Modified: 12:02 AM July 17 2007

Blog Track Back

wow looks cool


http://blog.scifi.com/cgi-bin/blogroot/mt-tb.cgi/3059

Created by: alive88 06:16 PM July 16 2007
Last Modified: 06:16 PM July 16 2007

JOURNAL ENTRY

Amazon S3 - online/real time


I have been thinking of spending some time to build an S3 front end real time / online backup tool. So I did a search first... and have installed Jungle Disk. so far... I am quite impressed.

I do imagine a little more from a tool, so maybe there is still some value in cloning the S3 pieces and adding on the stuff that I think should be added. Steep curve at the bottom of the hill for me right now. But I'll think about it anyway, and maybe share my thoughts.

What I like:
S3
Mapped Drive to S3
Selected folders for backup.
=====================
Additional?
I might want to share my collection

Created by: alive88 10:49 PM July 11 2007
Last Modified: 10:49 PM July 11 2007

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Recording Project


We are going to record some tunes for, I guess, archival purposes. I have organized our songs into "projects" that loosely reflect the time lines they represent, but also into smaller projects to make the overall project easier.

We will - 1 record a very basic frame of each song - this will be a more robust "click track" if you will. But help us clearly establish the boundaries of each track, give something to practice with and record an analog version of the song with.

Once we complete the analog recording for the complete project (or partial), we'll pass it to Duncan that will help us rejig and digitally record the song. Should be a fun process, but possibly quite time consuming as well.

These collections are, c/w project code names:

The First Six Minutes (live)
==============
Brush Without Fear
Bars
Silent
Cancer
Paul

Space Ladder
==========
Taxes
Superbabe (knows the score)
Decided
Stories
First Armed Mission to Mars
Corner Store
Death to Algae
Gospel According to Mark

The Night Watchman
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Angry at Sunrise (instrumental)
Slow Death to Algae
Who're You
The Artist and the Salesman (Line Up!)
Bite Your Tongue
I don't wanna go to work
She (is very hot)
Fiction Flu
Katrina (is a hurricane)

Overlooking the river
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Erotomania
Fat, Neurotic, Homosexual
FUH2
Where are we going
Saint Barry
Middle-Aged Man

Created by: alive88 09:17 AM May 18 2007
Last Modified: 11:45 AM July 10 2007