Author: vanevery

SMS/iTV .. Almost

Interspot :: SMS/iTV Applications
So a couple of thoughts here, first, targetted ads on the internet work as I found this site by clicking on an ad. Second, I loathe flash sites. Third, SMS for text commenting on shows is pretty cool but not really that engaging unless there is a reason to do so other than see your name on TV .. How about some participation folks!

Last, I am going to implement this (well not this commercial system, rather my not so commercial system) into ITJ.

Surveillance free travel (through NY)

i-SEE “Now more than ever.”
This has been around for a while in one form or another. Finally getting around to posting it here.
From the site:
iSee is a web-based application charting the locations of closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance cameras in urban environments. With iSee, users can find routes that avoid these cameras -? paths of least surveillance -? allowing them to walk around their cities without fear of being “caught on tape” by unregulated security monitors.

Open Source “Legitimate” Peer to Peer Tech

LionShare: Home Page
From the site:
The LionShare P2P project is an innovative effort to facilitate legitimate file-sharing among individuals and educational institutions around the world. By using Peer to Peer (P2P) technology and incorporating features such as authentication, directory servers, and owner controlled sharing of files, LionShare promises secure file-sharing capabilities for the easy exchange of image collections, video archives, large data collections, and other types of academic information. In addition to authenticated file-sharing capabilities, the developing LionShare technology will also provide users with resources for organizing, storing, and retrieving digital files.

Audio programming language with on the fly program changes

ChucK : Concurrent, On-the-fly Audio Programming Language
Watching a demo of ChucK, a nice open source programming language and environment developed by a group at Princeton.
From the site:
ChucK is a new audio programming language for real-time synthesis, composition, and performance, which runs on commodity operating systems. ChucK presents a new time-based concurrent programming model, which supports multiple, simultaneous, dynamic control rates, and the ability to add, remove, and modify code, on-the-fly, while the program is running, without stopping or restarting. It offers composers, researchers, and performers a powerful and flexible programming tool for building and experimenting with complex audio synthesis programs, and real-time interactive control.