ongoing – Pay For Placement Tim Bray writes: Adam Curry posted a note on Monday that I found pretty surprising. In the future, will you have to pay to get into RSS aggregators? Ouch. Apparently, about a year and a half ago Mr. Curry purchased Radio and Frontier licenses, and then paid Userland $10,000 to… Read More »
My wife surprised me with a Canon S400 digital camera a few months ago. Overall, I’m very satisfied with it. The picture quality is great and the camera is tiny. One of the features I hadn’t tried out yet was the ability to record movies. This amazing camera can record 15 frames/second video at either… Read More »
Back in April I mentioned that Norri Kageki interviewed me for a column on Silicon Valley engineers who use weblogs for personal and business purposes. The June issue of IT Professionals containing this column came out about a month ago, but I have been slow about getting the text translated by a friend and then… Read More »
While porting SoccerPhone from TellMe to BeVocal, I ran into a couple differences between the two as a development environment and a deployment environment. Porting Code from TellMe to BeVocal The porting process went pretty quickly. Fortunately, the Python CGI scripts didn’t have to change. Three cheers for standards and for application communication via XML… Read More »
I just published the 0.2 release of SoccerPhone to the SourceForge project site. The main two features of this release are: Support for the 2003 version of the MLS live scores page Support for BeVocal as well as TellMe as a VoiceXML gateway I had always wanted to port SoccerPhone to another VoiceXML Gateway, but… Read More »
Yahoo! Sports Well, we won’t have Byron Moreno to kick around anymore. He’s decided to retire before getting kicked out by FIFA. After making several shockingly bad calls against Italy during the Italy-South Korea match in the 2002 World Cup, Mr. Moreno kept the controversy fire roaring in an Ecuadorean league game later in 2002.… Read More »
While helping someone else setup their own install of PhoneBlogger, I realized that I had never gotten around to publishing much installation documentation on my website. The previous publicly available documentation was very sparse, as in the sense of providing virtually no clue as to how to install the dang thing. Well, I have mostly… Read More »
The Technology section of Der Spiegel Online has a long article on audio blogging [German | Google Translation] titled “audio blogs: Voices from the Web”. PhoneBlogger makes an appearance in the Internet links sidebar as “Audioblog solutions (III)” and in the main text of the article.
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alphaWorks : Transcription Portlet Transcription Portlet is a voice portlet for transcribing telephony-based dictation. This technology makes large-vocabulary speech recognition technology available to telephony-based portal applications (portlets). It provides Java APIs through which developers can integrate transcription capabilities into a portlet application. Oh, I could certainly use one of those. Unfortunately, it requires WebSphere Voice… Read More »
After TellMe dropped support for free VoiceXML application extensions on their public service, I didn’t have an easy way to make SoccerPhone available to others. The only way to reach it on TellMe now is to call in with my developer ID and password. Fortunately, BeVocal allows you to make an application available without having… Read More »