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29 Sep

Posted September 29, 2007 by Dave Winer in Scripting News.

A piece I wrote about identi.ca, the precursor to ActivityPub, in 2008. I found it interesting to read with foresight what is coming true today, 15 years later. It’s a myth that everything happens fast in tech. We waste so much time reinventing and breaking stuff, it’s amazing anything ever gets done here. 💥 #

5 responses to this post.

  1. Posted by Stanley Krute on September 30, 2007 at 2:16 am

    Thanks for your bleeding edge work with the N800. Living in toolieville, I hadn’t even heard of this thing til you began your journey. Seems it’s like what Palm should’ve evolved their PDAs towards. Gawbless Linux; I imagine PDA-type apps, esp. calendars and contact lists, will get themselves into this world.

    — stan

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  2. Posted by kosso on September 30, 2007 at 4:15 am

    Hi there.

    For more video codec support in the N800, try out mplayer

    http://mplayer.garage.maemo.org/

    There’s a download/install link on that page.

    It’s not the prettiset of apps, but will bring up a list of videos on all your storage cards and let you play them. Xvid is supported. Not tried divx yet.

    There’s another mediaplayer/photo viewer out there somewhere too called Canola, which looks nicer, but has some issues with some of the video I have tried.

    If you want to browse podcasts, you could try hopping over to http://n800.podcast.com too.

    Every podcast.com member also has their own N800 interface eg: http://my.podcast.com/kosso/n800/

    hope this helps.

    cheers,
    Kosso

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  3. Posted by John Handelaar on September 30, 2007 at 4:59 am

    A VNC viewer is listed here.</a<

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  4. Posted by Mark Smith on September 30, 2007 at 5:46 am

    Just testing out the ipod touch in the apple store in london. It takes ages to type anything. Actially i think i’m getting used to the keyboard. Anyways bye.

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  5. Posted by kosso on September 30, 2007 at 7:59 am

    You should also take a look at Video Center for the N800 which supports RSS feed enclosures and acts as a podcatcher. Comes loaded with a Rocketboom and a podshow feed

    http://videocenter.garage.maemo.org/

    You can set which media player it uses, if you dont use the default.

    Another very cool thing on the N800 is an app called MaemoMapper which is a GPS mapping app which I connect to GPS via an external bluetooth GPS unit.

    Shame the camera on the N800 isn’t that good, but works ok for video conferencing. (amazingly)

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