Posted on March 17, 2005 2:57 pm by Shel Holtz | Technology
Of American adults with cell phones, one in four have used those phones to send text messages within the last month. That’s according to new research from the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
Text messaging has enjoyed much faster adoption in Europe and Asia where all phones play well together. In the States, different standards have inhibited the growth of text…
Posted on February 14, 2005 1:05 pm by Shel Holtz | Podcasting | Technology
Neville and I just finished our seventh installment of “For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report,” using a new piece of software that worked so well I need to gush about it.
MixCast Live is the first recording application developed specifically for podcasting. Previously I’ve used a few different apps meant for computer-based recording, but the files need to be converted to MP3, the bit…
Posted on February 8, 2005 9:52 am by Shel Holtz | General | Technology
I’ve been chewing on something Steve Gillmor said.
Speaking last week at a meeting I attended of the RSS/Blog SIG of the East Bay IT Group (ebig), Gillmor tossed off this observation during a converation after the meeting broke up:
“Streaming is dead.”
Gillmor was at the meeting to speak on attention.xml (which I’m still chewing on; more later), but I was struck by the “streaming is…
Posted on February 5, 2005 10:33 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
Not to belabor the obvious, but after a couple days offline, my blog, e-mail server, message boards, various Web sites, and other server-based applications are back up and running. Given the severity of the problem that caused me to vanish from the Net in the first place, the recovery should have taken a week or so. That it only took…
Posted on January 21, 2005 8:06 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
Search engines like Google used to support meta tags but stopped because advertisers and marketers abused them. But tags are making a comeback. Not the same key word tags the search engines abandoned, but tags in blogs and wikis assigned by authors.
Technorati, one of the leading blog-focused search services, has introduced tag-based searching that will allow users to aggregate search…
Posted on January 10, 2005 10:56 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
Several software packages have come and gone that let people surf the Net anonymously. What makes Tor different is that the Electronic Frontier Foundation is behind it. According to the Tor site:
...communications are bounced around a distributed network of servers, called onion routers. Instead of taking a direct route from source to destination, data packets on the Tor network…
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