Author Archives: jason

London Calling

Posted on September 8, 2003 by jason

For those of you who haven’t heard, the guys behind Kazaa have recently launched Skype, a new Internet telephony service. What’s the difference between this and the previous Voice chat and Internet telephony offerings? The Skype team, leveraging the knowledge … Continue reading →

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A Change in Persistence

Posted on September 6, 2003 by jason

Today I have finally come to the conclusion that nntp//rss, as of v0.4, will no longer use hsqldb as its embedded database. It has been a bit of a rocky road over the past few months, with memory consumption issues, … Continue reading →

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Smaller, Faster, Better Orange – quickSub 0.2

Posted on August 27, 2003 by jason

quickSub 0.2 has just been released. It’s now a considerably smaller script, with some minor re-design, links to more aggregators and newsreaders, and a [What is this?] link for people wondering what is the meaning of these strange orange XML … Continue reading →

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Being Vocal – The Commandments of Voice User Interface Design

Posted on August 22, 2003 by jason

In a previous job, my focus was on wireless and voice technologies. I architected a multi-modal application platform, whose initial purpose was to support Personal Information Management across a disparate range of interaction devices. At that time I immersed myself … Continue reading →

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Down South

Posted on August 11, 2003 by jason

I’ll be at HP World in Atlanta for the next few days. My employer, Envoy Technologies, has a booth in the Expo. If you’re in the neighborhood, pop along and say hello – we’ll be over at booth 237.

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Making feed subscribing easier…

Posted on July 25, 2003 by jason

Here’s my quick hack for the week. As a little diversion from nntp//rss, I thought I’d create a way to make it easier for people to subscribe to my RSS feed. There are various initiatives to make this process easier … Continue reading →

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Reading Blogs in your newsreader? Check it out!

Posted on July 23, 2003 by jason

I’ve set up a demo server for those people who have yet to experience nntp//rss. Check out the following post to the nntp//rss forum for more information: http://www.methodize.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15 By the way – this server is running a work-in-progress copy of … Continue reading →

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Syndic8 XML-RPC

Posted on July 20, 2003 by jason

Recently I’ve been working on integrating search functionality into nntp//rss. Syndic8.com offers up an XML-RPC API, and I thought that this would be a great way to integrate the search functionality. Feedster are also just about to release an XML-RPC … Continue reading →

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Which newsreader do you use with nntp//rss?

Posted on July 15, 2003 by jason

A quick request for nntp//rss users: I’ve created a poll on the nntp//rss message board to find out which newsreaders are used by nntp//rss users. You can find the poll at: http://www.methodize.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12 If you have any tips for effective nntp//rss-enabled … Continue reading →

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nntp//rss and Echo

Posted on June 27, 2003 by jason

Just a quick note to say that I’m closely watching the progress of the Echo project. I’m interested to see what transpires from the discussions, especially from a content syndication perspective. Once the spec becomes formalized, I’ll look to include … Continue reading →

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