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The bellster network phone sharing service.

Taking the concept of peer-to-peer telephony one step further, Bellster is the brainchild of Jeff Pulver, one of the people who initiated the free world dialup project back in 1995 (that’s 40 years ago in human years).

Published on the 22nd of January, 2005 Read full post

Amazon DevCon - Rael Dornfest.

Several well-known technologists and software developers were invited to an internal conference for the development staff at amazon.com headquarters this week. Most corporations would close an event like this to outsiders, which is what Amazon has done also. The major difference being that they’ve been blogging highlights of the talks to the rest of the world via the Amazon Web Services Blog.

Published on the 21st of January, 2005 Read full post

Monkey Methods: Bill Gates Strikes a Pose for Teen Beat Photospread, 1983.

Bill Gates probably cringes significantly when he remembers this photo spread [archive link] where he nonchalantly flips his floppies at the camera for a 1983 edition of Teen Beat magazine.

update: Snopes identifies these photos as publicity shots from 1985. That makes it even worse.

Linked on the 20th of January, 2005 Details

The free spirit sphere.

Here’s a holiday home I’d enjoy locking myself into with that pile of books I can’t seem to reach the end of: the Free Spirit Sphere, a 2,9 meter wide suspended spherical treehouse. (via)

Linked on the 16th of January, 2005 Details

The Guardian: Generation text.

The Guardian is running an interesting article on the social and cultural impact of mobile phones. A notable example is that we no longer decide on strict meeting details, but rather tend to text each other at the approximate hour in order to define an exact time and place. Amusingly, we also instinctively listen with extra attention to conversations we can only hear one side of. This results in frustration from being deaf to half of the conversation and increases the tension provoked by people making or receiving calls around us. The complete research paper the article refers to can be found at the 160 characters (PDF) website.

Linked on the 15th of January, 2005 Details

SFL phone.

SFLphone is an open-source softphone for VOIP, it supports the standards like SIP and is completely skinnable. It’s in early stages right now and has only been compiled on Linux, but support for other platforms is planned. It’ll be interesting to watch how people will tweak it and integrate it with existing applications.

Linked on the 15th of January, 2005 Details