Thursday, January 08, 2004

DigitalThink Preps E-Learning Service Update. DigitalThink will bump up capacity, speeds performance and adds more reporting capabilities in a new version of its hosted L5 Learning Delivery System to be launched on Friday. [eWEEK Technology News] 11:12:04 PM

More on RSS and My Yahoo. Rich sent in this article from Internet News discussing the My Yahoo/RSS "accident" yesterday. It turns out that they indeed were testing it out and plan to release it "within months". Very good news. I wonder if Yahoo should be talking to the people at Bloglines about how to best integrate RSS in a web-based platform... The article also mentions..."A recent study from Nielsen//NetRatings found that three out of every four home and work Internet users -- a full 76 percent -- access the Internet using a non-browser based Internet application like RSS aggregators, media players, Instant Messaging and P2P applications." I have to read the study closely, but my RSS Aggregator (Radio) is a part of my browser and so is Bloglines and many other popular readers. Am I missing something here? [Library Stuff] 11:10:06 PM

Linksys DVD player w/ WiFi and ethernet  Linksys DVD player w/ WiFi and ethernet Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday January 08, @02:48PM from the thats-a-lot-of-toys dept. An anonymous reader writes "Linksys has announced a progressive scan DVD player with 802.11g and ethernet. Users can stream MPEG2, MPEG4, DivX, MP3, WMA, and other formats from their PC to the TV. Sure I can do this cobbling together other tools, but this is a self contained box even newbies can use. Think how many people could install and config a router and an AP, versus the number of people that can plug in one of the self-contained wireless routers? "  [Slashdot] 7:27:11 PM

icecast 2.0.0 Icecast is a streaming media server based on the MP3 audio codec. It will stream MP3s to virtually anything that will play MP3s, including XMMS, mpg123, Sonique, WinAMP, RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, Ultraplayer, C3, and others. [freshmeat.net] 12:30:36 PM

NewsGator Extends Reach With Subscription Service. NewsGator Online Services allows access to aggregated RSS feeds from multiple e-mail clients, the Web and mobile devices; meanwhile, an updated Outlook-specific reader hooks into the new service for synchronization capabilities. [eWEEK Technology News] 9:32:56 AM

Selecting a Search Tool for Your Web Browser. Q. Is it possible to change the search engine page that comes up automatically in the Search Companion area of Internet Explorer 6? By J. D. Biersdorfer. [New York Times: Technology] 9:24:54 AM

Javascript Windows 0.4 Javascript Windows is a virtual window environment that attempts to simulate multiple browser windows inside a single Web page. This allows the visitor the ability to move and resize items on the page.  [freshmeat.net] Mighty cool.  Many possibilities jump to mind. 9:16:27 AM