Monday, January 24, 2005

Slashdot | P2P Meets PSTN, With Bellster: P2P Meets PSTN, With Bellster Posted by michael on Monday January 24, @05:08PM from the marsgram dept. flinderhans writes "Jeff Pulver, the guy who started Free World Dialup (free VoIP network) and had the germ of the idea that turned into Vonage, has launched a P2P network called Bellster that allows users to share their private lines to make calls anywhere on the public-switched telephone network. Interesting stuff, even if it doesn't look quite ready for prime-time."   6:54:46 PM

Slashdot | What is JSON, JSON-RPC and JSON-RPC-Java? What is JSON, JSON-RPC and JSON-RPC-Java? Posted by Hemos on Monday January 24, @08:32AM from the pushing-the-development-forward dept. Michael Clark writes "Seen those funky remote scripting techniques employed by Orkut, Gmail and Google Suggests that avoid that oh so 80's page reloading (think IBM 3270 only slower). A fledgling standard is developing to allow this new breed of fast and highly dynamic web applications to flourish. JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format with language bindings for C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, TCL and others. It is derived from JavaScript and it has similar expresive capabilities to XML. Perfect for the web as doesn't suffer from XML's bloat and is custom made for our defacto browser language. JSON-RPC is a simple remote procedure call protocol similar to XML-RPC although it uses the lightweight JSON format instead of XML (so it is much faster). The XMLHttpRequest object (or MSXML ActiveX in the case of Internet Explorer) is used in the browser to call remote methods on the server without the need for reloading the page. JSON-RPC-Java is a Java implementation of the JSON-RPC protocol. JSON-RPC-Java combines these all together to create an amazingly and simple way of developing these highly interactive type of enterprise java applications with JavaScript DHTML web front-ends. "   10:35:28 AM

Heads-up: OPML 1.1 coming shortly Looks like OPML is going to get an update.  The change will allow outlines to 'talk' to one another through a central server, picking up the 'instant outline' idea that has been a feature of Radio for years.  I always thought the instant outlining was a great idea that needed to be spread around.  Imagine being able to subscribe to other folks outlines.  let that sink in for a minute... 10:30:54 AM