Archive for March 31st, 2005
Skype Leveraged as Podcasting Tool
"Skype was created as a no-cost long-distance phone service. It does that very well. What it also allows you to do, if you’re just a little technically-minded and have a homebrew gene or two, is to record your Skype phone conversation, with the other person’s permission, to an audio file on a second computer. Once you’ve recorded the audio, you can edit out the uhms, ahs and pauses, compress the audio and then place it on the web for public consumption.
"I’ve been doing some experiments recording Skype interviews and am writing this article to pass along some tips and pointers."
Phil Shapiro. Using Skype as a Community Media Production Tool. No publisher. No date.
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Skypecasters Turn Net Phones into Broadcasting System
"Calling all music players.
"A growing number of people are sharing the digital music on MP3 players and other music devices using freely available software and Skype, a free Internet phone service.
"The enthusiasts are borrowing heavily from another personal broadcasting phenomenon called podcasting, in which digital recordings are posted on a Web site for download to a variety of music players, including desktop PCs and portable gadgets like Apple Computer’s wildly popular iPod. ‘Skypecasters, as they call themselves, use Skype’s peer-to-peer telephone network to distribute recordings over the Internet directly to each other for free."
Ben Charny. VoIP Calls Get Podcast Treatment. News.com. March 29, 2005.
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John Borland. A Novel Podcast. News.com. March 24, 2005.
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VeriSign Retains Control of .net Domain
"VeriSign has taken a major step toward retaining control of .net after beating out four rivals in a rating of the contenders seeking to run the Internet’s third-largest domain.
"VeriSign Inc., of Mountain View, Calif., ranked the highest in a report (.pdf) released late Monday by ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the main oversight body for the domain-name system. ICANN now will begin negotiating a registry agreement with VeriSign, a process that is expected to last about two weeks.
"Once an agreement is reached, the selection of VeriSign as the registry for .net could go before ICANN’s board of directors as early as its scheduled meeting in Mar del Plata, Argentina, on April 8. ICANN also has begun accepting public comments on the report."
Matt Hicks. VeriSign Favored to Run Major Internet Domain. eWeek. March 29, 2005.
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Jim Wagner and Michael Singer. VeriSign Retaining Stewardship of .net. InternetNews.com. March 29, 2005.
Anick Jesdanun. Panel: VeriSign Should Retain Domain Name Control. Globe and Mail. March 29, 2005.
ICANN. ICANN .net RFP Evaluation. (.pdf). March 2005.
ICANN. ICANN Publishes Telcordia Report on their Findings and Rankings for .NET. (Press Release.) March 28, 2005.
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Brazil Choses Linux Over Microsoft
"Since taking office two years ago, President Luiz In�cio Lula da Silva has turned Brazil into a tropical outpost of the free software movement.
"Looking to save millions of dollars in royalties and licensing fees, Mr. da Silva has instructed government ministries and state-run companies to gradually switch from costly operating systems made by Microsoft and others to free operating systems, like Linux.
"On Mr. da Silva’s watch, Brazil has also become the first country to require any company or research institute that receives government financing to develop software to license it as open-source, meaning the underlying software code must be free to all."
Todd Benson. Brazil: Free Software’s Biggest and Best Friend. News.com. March 29, 2005.
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