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–by Andrew McCaskey
Earlier in the week I spent some time on the Voice 2.0 white paper. It’s going to be fun keeping an eye out to see the first glimpses appear on the horizon. Took a quick trip back to the U3 site at U3.com and took a look at some of the interesting applications that are coming up for that platform. From our Techpodcast Roundtable on March 11th, you may recall that U3 is a major force in the world of USB thumb drive applications, where both the data and the application are contained in a USB drive stick. Now with 1 and 2 GB drives becoming more affordable, you can load up a drive with the entire Open Office Suite, Gaim, Firefox, Thunderbird, WinAmp and a host of utilities and still have acres of disk space left.
One USB drive and a earbud headset will keep you well equiped for net access just about anywhere you can get to an online machine, and the distinguishing feature is that when you remove the drive, your apps, passwords and data go with you – not on the host machine.
One of the most interesting apps that I did find on the U3 site is a Skype extension called Pamela. It looks to be modeled on an super efficient secretary who can, among other things act as an answering machine for Skype, a response robot for Skype chat sessions and most importantly a recorder.
Now this has been one of the shortcomings of Skype – especially for podcast use – but Pamela seems to be able to record conference calls, automatically forward email attachments of recorded calls, and deliver different greetings to different callers.
There are Basic and Pro level versions of the app – very reasonably priced under $10 and $20 respectively – and the pro version appears to have built in podcasting support, recording the audio, encoding the MP3 and publishing the XML.
So- it looks very interesting: especially when you take a conventional landline and call forward into a Skype -In you have one very potent bit of apparent business presence – all on the U3 drive. You can find it at Pamela-Systems.com.
As surprising as it might sound, it’s just about as hard to prepare for a very short podcast than for a longer one.
Today’s TechPodcast Network Affiliate Pick is the One Minute Tip, hosted by John Chambers. The One Minute Tip is a collection of Podcasted technology tips, interviews, quickstarts and videos for people who don’t have time to read manuals cover to cover. John tracks down and find and Podcast these “gems” three times a week. I think you’ll be amazed at the concise quality of his podcasts, and appreciate the time he spends distilling things down to the essentials.
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You can download the Iotum.com Voice 2.0 whitepaper that was summarized the week of March 27 linked on SDR.
A Monthly Newsletter called ‘The Filter” : The public-interest Internet news and commentary from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. Here is the newsletter signup link for the Filter
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The audio and recorded versions of the TechPodcast Roundtable from March 11. The video of the event contains both the U3 and Podtrac presentations.
CES CD Now Available
The official package of the entire SDR coverage for the CES Convention available in data CD form at the SDR CD Store page.
The book that I spoke about on 3/2 is called “Amusing Ourselves to Death” .
The preface to the book gives a good idea of the basic premise, and specific comments on television. (Remember, this was in the early 1980′s .. the hundred channel universe was not yet revealed )
A more lengthy summary is found at WikiPedia.
Interactive Touchscreen Demo: a video of a really cool touchscreen interface – about ten times better than the Bill Gates demo at CES. Hard to describe, about three minutes long.
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Now a really useful guide to Fixing Windows with Knoppix has appeared online, a reprint of a chapter in the book Hacking Knoppix from Scott Granneman . You might want to plan ahead, print out the chapter and put it alongside a fresh burn of Knoppix STD when you get the call.
I came across Google SMS again today- a way to pull all sorts of useful stuff from Google with the fast SMS from your cellphone.
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