And more on wireless networks …
Internetnews.com covers the public launches of Joltage and Sputnik: These companies are all about footprint. A thousand disparate hot spots are worth as much as a hotel chain? We’ll see.
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Monthly Archives: May 2002
Looks like the WiFi networks are really a growing business interest …
I love seeing these articles … we’re still playing with our network project … just yesterday we got our LDAP, Authentication, and Gateway servers up and running in Salt Lake City! We’ll see how our ideas roll …
Several folks tried to sell me as news Joltage’s plan for announcing their software rollout. I’m confused about this. The rollout may be news, but without a footprint and with two competitors (SOHO Wireless and Sputnik), I’m not sure if this isn’t marketing by press release. Eleven days ago, I wrote about all three companies.
More GPS and mapping software in Open Source …
There is more Open Source software appearing continuously that is experimenting with mapping and geographic visualization. This looks like one that has some nice features and capabilities. It is addressing 3D displays, and also the capabilites to access map data from sources that are being constantly updated. This last feature is one that I have been looking at for a while with some friends. It seems to me that I would want to be downloading and caching map data all the time as I travel and always be fetching the most up to date data … maybe even data that was created by friends or family!
gps3d 1.18. A GPS 3D visualization utility. [freshmeat.net]
Browsers still working on compatibility …
Lately I have been working with some very smart people working on browser user interface technologies. They have been teaching me huge amounts about the DOM standard, and the lack of browser compliance … or the differences in implementations. This is a good overview of some of the know issues …
Waiting for the DOM. Though great strides have been made towards the ultimate goal of a single DOM for all browsers, some implementation differences still remain. Guest author Kenneth Tibbetts provides some browser-specific scripting gotchas to watch out for. From the WebReference Update. 0315 [WebReference News]
Next generation cell phones …
This is a the coolest new cell phone that I have heard of! Wrist-watch cell phone, and it transmits the sound through the bones in your hand to your finger tip … so that you listen to the person you are talking to by putting your finger into your ear! Too cool …
Let Your Fingers Do The Talking [Nooface: In Search of the Post-PC Interface]
Peer to peer secure connections …
It is great to see more and more work on VPN solutions being developed in the public domain. I truly believe that these are the technologies that are going to provide a freedom in communications between communities and their members, communities and other communities, and between individuals.
LinVPN 2.4 (Stable). Allows you to create a VPN (Virtual Private Network) from Linux to Linux. [freshmeat.net]
Visualization of the collective brain …
I have always been a visual thinker … and so I always like to find solutions for producing visual representations of what is going on in the net. I worked for years in network management and still have ideas for solutions that would display the real activity going on in the infrastructure.
The more that I have been working on memetics and Web Services, the more I have started to look at how the real-time activities of “humans on the net” can be represented in a graphical manner.
This is a very cool article and web site that provides a very cool way to render the traffic of visitors at a web site.
Visualizing Crowds At Web Sites [Nooface: In Search of the Post-PC Interface]
Time between posting …
I am starting to learn that my weblog provides a good display of time for me. I can’t believe that it has been almost a month since I caught up on my back-log of reading, and made my last posts.
I have been having a lot of fun though … and am about to venture out and make some more changes to my blog page. I have been in contact with a few open source projects … working on some digital identity work, and getting NoCat working for our http://80211.net project. I also was able to buy and install a new keyboard on my laptop which is making typing a lot easier! I had started to learn whole new ways of typing when my left-hand CTRL and Shift keys started to fail. 😉
Overall the last month has been a blast … I had a few trips on the road – New York to Chase Manhatten for work on a disaster recovery solution – Silicon Valley for the Foresight Institute Senior Associates Gathering and a series of analyst and partner meetings with Vultus. The more I have been working with Vultus the more I am learning about the implications of the Web Services revolution … giving me lots of ideas about the future.
I also ended up doing a couple of presentations on Wearable Computers … one for the State of Utah School systems “Test-out” Challenge talking to a lot of high school students from across the state … another for the Utah Computer Society. I’m also meeting with a variety of companies on my “mesh network” ideas … one that is implementing a last mile solution – UINetworks – and another making some inexpensive radios that will provide me with some peer-to-peer wireless that I have been looking for.
Lastly … I’m completing some work on my video/photo kiosk ideas, my wearables, and my location-based services applictions. Oh yeah … and I have a baby coming in September, so I have been learning a lot about what to expect with fatherhood!
It’s been a fun month … and it’s going to be a fun summer …