Tag: KAYWA

Evil markup

i just finished a conversion of a MT blog to KAYWA. Most of the posts were stored in some non-xhtml markup (yes i’m talking about you, textile) which made the task really really tedious. while i can appreciate alternative markup for data entry purposes (think wikis), i have, after this experience especially, no patience for storing markup that is not in the normal form, read, in either XHTML or another widely used XML format.
as bill de hora points out, the advantages of syntax (and increasingly, content) virtual machines are just too great. And the case for non-standard markup gets weaker every day. If there ever was one.

Street Parade 2003

zueritipp.ch und tagesanzeiger.ch praesentieren den Kaywa-Eventblog. Auf
diesem neuen Internetservice, auch Moblog genannt, koennen Sie nicht nur
MMS-Fotos direkt ab Ihrem Mobiltelefon im Internet publizieren, sondern
auch eine persoenliche Bildgalerie einrichten, mit Fotos von den Ferien,
von der Geburtstagsparty oder fuer eine Foto-Tagebuch.

Der neue Kaywa-Eventblog finden Sie unter event.kaywa.ch.

Street-Parade-Eventblog: Senden Sie die Bilder, die Sie mit
Ihrem Mobilhandy an der Street Parade machen, per MMS oder E-Mail an
event@kaywa.ch. Ihre Fotos koennen dann auf der Webseite event.kaywa.ch von Ihren Freunden und Bekannten angeschaut werden.

basically, our first KAYWA customer is going live this weekend. we are offering free moblogging of the street parade, the 2nd biggest techno event in the world, to be held this weekend in zurich, switzerland. what about the spelling in the text? don’t they have reviewers?
2003-08-09: my favorite shots from tonight’s crop. it was a lot of fun to moblog my way through the evening’s festivities 🙂

Ericsson associate

wanted to become an ericsson associate today. this is what i got:

Your message
To: mobilityworld@eas.ericsson.se
Subject: ericsson associate
Sent: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:42:16 +0200
did not reach the following recipient(s):
MOBILITYWORLD@EAS.ERICSSON.SE on Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:44:53 +0200
The recipient name is not recognized

way to go guys.

GPSML

There is a growing requirement for a standard way of sharing GPS location information between disparate systems, devices and users. For example, to transmit location data from a GPS-enabled client application (possibly running on a handheld device) to a central server running location-aware Web Services. Another example would be to enable users to share waypoints, routes and/or track logs more easily, regardless of their GPS device or application. Chaeron will submit the GPSml specification to the W3C for adoption as a standard once it stabilizes and is released in a final version.

adding location-awareness will allow the web to track the real world much better. it would allow to reduce the impedance mismatch in user interfaces, and allow the web to recede more into the (ubiquitous) background, where it belongs.

The memex is coming

Within 5 years, terabyte hard drives will be common and inexpensive (<$300). Thus, purchasing an additional terabyte of personal storage every year will be feasible for the average computer user. It turns out that filling 1 terabyte is not easy. It is hard to take/view enough pictures, read enough documents, or listen to enough audio in 1 year to fill 1 terabyte. Only video is up to the task of readily filling 1 terabyte in a year. Therefore, we must prepare for the era of profligate users that Vannevar Bush predicted. Users will eventually be able to keep every document they read, every picture they view, all the audio they hear, and a good portion of what they see.

gordon bell is preparing for that day with his MyLifeBits project at MS research, as is the MIT haystack project which drew lots of applause at the W3C conference this year.

We have begun using MyLifeBits, and initial experience is a success. Gordon Bell, our alpha user, has digitized nearly everything possible from his entire life, and will have eliminated all paper (except those legally required) by the time this paper is published.

one question that bloggers get asked a lot; why are you replicating your life online, can be asked of this effort too. the answer, it appears, is rooted in human psychology, and the wish to endure.

Supposing one did keep virtually everything would there be any value to it? Well, there is an existence proof of value. The following exist in abundance: shoe boxes full of photos, photo albums & framed photos, home movies/videos, old bundles of letters, bookshelves and filing cabinets. While many items may be accessed only infrequently (perhaps just a handful of times in a lifetime) they are treasured; given only one thing that could be saved as their house burns down, many people would grab their photo albums or such memorabilia.

Location-aware computing


This paper describes our implementation of the Universal Location Framework, a technology that allows aggregating multiple location technologies, seamlessly transition between them, and exposes a single Application Programming Interface (API).
Today there are well-established technologies for position location such as Global Positioning System (GPS), cell phone triangulation using Enhanced Observed Time of Difference (E-OTD), and emerging technologies such as Digital TV (DTV) signals, Wifi, and so forth. The performance variation of these technologies with respect to the environment has been the main reason for their development and continued existence. ULF is addressing this issue by not being restricted to any specific technology. Instead, it uses a layered approach that allows integrating (fusing) multiple technologies.

intel’s research in location-aware computing seems to have resulted in JSR-179, which was approved a few weeks ago. with luck, it will be implemented shortly.

PR outside the beaten trail

this is how i would like to close the feature list once kaywa opens its doors:

Chock full of amusing and delightful technological confections
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