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ePresence

ePresence – I’m watching a live presentation on the new release of ePresence.  From their website:

ePresence Interactive Media softwareis a content capturing, archiving, and webcasting system that deliversvideo and presentation media over the internet using multiple streamingformats for multiple platforms. ePresence also supports text and voiceinteraction among event participants.

In an IE window I’m watching a webcast that includes live audio and video, PowerPoint slides, and text chat.  It also handles VOIP and screen capture.  Some parts of this are Open Source, but the best bits are available only to consortium members.  Of course anyone can join the consortium:)
This looks like what we need for the conference web cast. 
Notes

  • On Windows only works properly in IE.  Firefox gets some of the webcast, but not audio and video.  Mac users are reporting problems also.
  • Open source bits are built on Helix, it seems but might be tightly tied to Windows on client side.
  • Linux version of server is available.
  • Producer will generate MP3s and RSS feed for podcasting.
  • VOIP does work, viewers are suing it to ask the presenter questions.

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Classcaster Podcasts Begin to Turn Up in iTunes

If you have Apple’s free iTunes version 4.9 or higher, search in the Podcasts section of the iTunes Music Store for "Lawyering Skills II" or click on the link below to go directly to the "Lawyering Skills II Legal Research" iTunes page.

Lawyering Skills II Legal Research

 
Last week I tweaked the default RSS2 template in Lifetype to generate itunes tags in the RSS2 feeds being published by Classcaster.   Now some of our more intrepid bloggers have added their podcasts to the iTunes Store.  If you want to follow along, do a search in iTunes for ‘Classcaster’.

 

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MySQL Moves Further into the Business Realm

The Small Customer Bundle costs $4,000 and joins MySQL Certified Binaries with Business Object’s Data Integrator (DI) Basic, Crystal Reports and CR Server software. The price includes unlimited installation help and five incidents of online support from Business Objects, as well as licenses for one source and one designer for DI Basic, five named users for CR Server and one named user for Crystal Reports.

MySQL, Business Objects team for bundled offerings – Computerworld

I wonder if CALI needs to go down this road?  It may be a help to us to have real commercial apps for some of the routine reporting we need thereby freeing up our time to do other cool things.

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XOAD: AJAX For PHP

XOAD, formerly known as NAJAX, is a AJAX/XAP object oriented framework for PHP that allows you to create richer Web applications. It uses JSON and native PHP serialized objects to communicate. Special attention has been paid to security. It supports server side events (observation) and client side events (XOAD Events). Server and client extensions allow features such as HTML manipulation and caching. It is extensively documented, and includes tutorials and examples.

freshmeat.net: Project details for XOAD

I really need to get ahandle on AJAX.  Take a look at this example from XOAD.  There is a lot of potential in education here.  Makes me think that the JS versions of CALI Lessons could be converted to AJAX to get a lot of the Flash features.

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Dell Takes a Hit on Bad MoBos

But the motherboard replacement program will account for the bulk of the charge, or about $300 million, he said.The replacements are necessary as some capacitors on some motherboards shipped in its GX270 and GX280 systems failed after a period of months. The failure, which is evidenced by a PC that won’t boot, comes when the capacitors bulge and fail.

Dell Warns of Layoffs, Motherboard Replacements

There was a lengthy discussion on this very topic on teknoids back in September and folks were generally not happy with the situation.

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Explain this to me?

Library Stuff has a great list of Q and A sites.  You have a question, ask it there and maybe you’ll get an answer.  Most seem to suffer from the lack of quality control you’d expect.  John has thought about doing something like this using legal ed as a background.  “Would someone explain estoppel to me?”, that sort of thing.  Could work since focus would help with quality.