interesting.. this seems to be "hot" these days... our managing editor sent this around today:
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February 13, 2005
New Tools Making Online Work Easier By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 1:17 p.m. ET
PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) -- This scenario is all too familiar to office workers who collaborate electronically on projects: E-mails get passed around with differing versions of documents-in-progress attached. Instant messages whizz by. Web sites are cited, then lost. It's often a jumbled mess, with no central online location for shared data. There must be a better way.
A new crop of tools aims to help turn the Web -- be it on the public Internet or a company network -- into much more than a collection of documents one visits like a museum: Look, but don't touch.
The idea is to make it easy to quickly post and remove stuff from digital bulletin boards where the online communities of the future will gather to catch up and trade ideas, images and work.
``We're turning the Web into a conversation,'' said Glenn Reid, chief executive and founder of Five Across Inc.
Reid's startup and several other companies will offer their visions for accomplishing that on stage at the DEMO conference in Arizona, an annual showcase of tech innovation.
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Behind JotSpot is Joe Kraus, a serial entrepreneur who co-founded the early search engine Excite.
Kraus became a believer in Wikis after he and fellow co-founder Graham Spencer got fed up with exchanging hundreds of e-mails and attachments and tried using a Wiki instead while working on a business plan. That ultimately led to JotSpot's birth in October, competing against Socialtext and a handful of others in the fledgling market.
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At DEMO, Palo Alto-based Five Across is introducing speedy technology that lets bloggers instantaneously update their blog pages with text, photos, audio or video clips, even spreadsheets and presentations, using easy drag-and-drop motions.
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Sivakatirswami
On Jan 13, 2005, at 9:12 PM, Jan Schenkel wrote:
--- Sivakatirswami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:OK here is a "brainstorm" type post:
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So first solution I can think of would be to have a distributed viewer stack that reads the main stack from the server... and the captions are external text files... with some kind or semaphore, locking mechanism "caption being edited" which is on if it is in use, release when done. Maybe external text files are not necessary... if I had a permanently open and running rev process-stack on the server and the viewer stack just talked to that and the captions were contained inside there. Or may be no stack on the server at all which only has the photos and external caption text files and semaphore flags
I'm just beginning to think about this, and looking for any and all ideas.
TIA
Sivakatirswami
I think your last idea is on the right track, and I can't believe that Andre hasn't suggested it yet (Take away a man's casket, and he -- hold on, that's not a real expression -- oh, shoot) : have a look at his libNetServices server solution and the XML-RPC client library that ships with Rev 2.5 Combining those two, you can run a server application that receives requests from client stacks, returns the pictures and the data that goes with it, and then when the clients is finished, receives the annotations. You can even send it an XML-RPC command to start uploading to the real website !
Hope this helped,
Jan Schenkel. ---- Quartam - Tools for Revolution <http://www.quartam.com>
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