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Jon Udell article on mobile webcasting. Lots of technical details in the middle, but some big picture stuff at the beginning and the end:

What would be a compelling reason? Imagine the following scenario. It's 2007, and a major political rally is happening in Philadelphia. The downtown has been a WiFi zone for over a year. Bloggers are walking around with camcorders that do what my camera-equipped laptops can do today: encode video and send it via WiFi to a streaming server. Not everyone's blog server also runs a streaming media server, but there are enough of them to spread the load.

Here's the payoff: bloggers will democratize video reporting of the <<live>> event in the same way they've already leveled the playing field for conventional reporting. The TV networks will still score most of the big interviews, but the collective eyes and ears of the videobloggers will supply a wealth of otherwise missing viewpoints. And their <<archived>> videoblog posts will be stirred in to the blogosphere's bubbling cauldron of links, commentary, and aggregation.
I am looking forward to experimenting with streaming audio and video after our next server upgrade even though I'm a little skeptical about how practical it will be.
- jim 12-10-2004 7:33 pm [link] [1 ref] [add a comment]

Google Suggest beta. Just like Google search, except it "suggests" search terms as you type, sort of like auto-complete of URLs in the location field of most browsers. This is similar also to what Google did with the gmail UI. This completely blows my mind. How can they do that with HTML and javascript? I don't understand. Are they holding a connection open to the server? And doing a round trip after every character you type? Amazing. I know a little bit about this stuff and it seems like magic to me. (via kottke)
- jim 12-10-2004 6:49 pm [link] [3 comments]

The 100 oldest still registered .com domain names.
- jim 12-10-2004 6:45 pm [link] [1 comment]

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