Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Is It a Wiki? A Floor Wax? A Dessert Topping?. After you read Brian Lamb's article, take the time to visit Tiddly Wiki for a bit. As you look more closely, it will become more and more amazing - an entire wiki can be a single file. Lamb writes, "The entire tool is contained in one html file using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Which makes the wiki very portable, and can be run in any modern browser. As suggested on the website, I also installed it and PortableFirefox on my USB thumb drive. This would make updating/showing the e-portfolio very portable as well. However, to save the changes of the wiki page, it requires Firefox or Internet Explorer, plus save capabilities (write access) to a server." By Brian Lamb, Abject Learning, June 28, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 11:46:20 PM      Google It!.

Google Video Launches Today. Still some bumps to smooth out, but Google's video search launches today. Google's special video viewer, based on the open source VLC Viewer, installed easily but is for Windows only (no doubt ports will soon be available). Second, despite having signed on a number of providers ("PBS, CNN, Fox News, C-SPAN, Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and the Learning Channel") all the searches I tried resulted only in screenshots and a "video not available" message. Coming soon, I guess. More info at John Batelle and Hollywood Reporter. By Cory Bergman, Lost Remote, June 27, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 1:16:38 PM      Google It!.

Grokster Loses Copyright Case. Americans are still weighing the impact of today's Supreme Court essentially ruling against Grokster and other file sharing services. "We hold that one who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright, as shown by clear expression or other affirmative steps taken to foster infringement, is liable for the resulting acts of infringement," wrote Justice David Souter in the majority opinion. Michael Geist says it's not so bad: "P2P technology didn't lose... By seeking to retain Sony but build in active inducement, it is trying to navigate a difficult fine line... premised on 'purposeful culpable expression and conduct.'" Others are less sanguine. The internet is now awash with opinion; I'll just say it's a bad decision and leave it at that. By Arik Hesseldahl, Forbes, June 27, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 1:15:02 PM      Google It!.

Cringely Shows How to Get Free Cell Calls [Slashdot:] 1:13:59 PM      Google It!.

Knoppix 4.0 DVD - Like a Kid in a Candy Store [Slashdot:] 1:09:30 PM      Google It!.

Struggling courses 'will merge'. University subjects unable to attract students will have to merge into national centres, funding chiefs suggest. [BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition] 12:51:49 PM      Google It!.

Listening to Peter Yared. Marrying the flexibility of procedural coding and the different kind of flexibility afforded by declarative techniques is a key challenge for everyone. Somebody was bound to bring these ideas to the LAMP platform, and now somebody has: ActiveGrid. I'd read about the company a while ago, and Scott Mace's ITConversations interview with ActiveGrid CEO Peter Yared prompted me to download and tire-kick the early access release of the software. [InfoWorld.com] ... [Jon's Radio] 12:47:46 PM      Google It!.

Google Earth Launching For Free [Slashdot:] 12:33:33 PM      Google It!.