On the same day Google enters the IM/VOIP arena, SKype launches 2 APIs to open its system.
Share Skype
Skype opens IM and Presence to the world. – Introducing SkypeWeb and SkypeNet
American’s Washington College of Law Launches Podcasting Service
AFAIK, WCL is the first US law school to launch a podcasting service. The feed is here. It will be interesting to see how fast other schools adopt similar services. Of course Classcaster makes this sort of thing a lot easier.
AU News Press Release
WCL launched this service primarily for its students in Washington, D.C. and around the world.
New PHP XML-RPC Flaw Revealed
PHP hit by another critical flaw – Computerworld
The bug was found in XML-RPC for PHP and PEAR XML_RPC as the result of a security audit by the Hardened-PHP Project. The group said it decided to carry out its own audit after other flaws were disclosed in the two libraries earlier this summer.
Execute PHP 5 From Perl and Perl From PHP 5
Wow, this is cool. And rather useful. At the moment Classcaster is running a mix of PHP and Perl that is getting difficult to manage. This may provide a solution.
Bricolage Now has PHP 5 Templating
Now anyone can natively execute PHP 5 code from a Perl application. Not only that, but the PHP 5 code can reach back into the Perl interpreter to use Perl modules and objects!
Get Your Windows Reglazed
Wired News: Windows Got Ya Down? Try a Remix
Remixed versions of Windows abound on file-sharing networks, supercharged with the latest security patches, tools and applications.
SWFTOOLS – Utilities for Having Fun With SWFs
Thanks to John for pointing this out. A number of interesting things here, including generating a SWF from a WAV file. Nothing that directly converts PPT though:)
SWFTOOLS
SWF Tools is a collection of SWF manipulation and creation utilities written by Rainer Böhme and Matthias Kramm. It is released under the GPL.
NYT Article on the Collapse of the Educational Software Market
Once a Booming Market, Educational Software for the PC Takes a Nose Dive – New York Times
“In 2000, sales of educational software for home computers reached $498 million, and it was conventional wisdom among investors and educators that learning programs for PC’s would be a booming growth market.Yet in less than five years, that entire market has come undone. By 2004, sales of educational software – a category that includes programs teaching math, reading and other subjects as well as reference works like encyclopedias – had plummeted to $152 million, according to the NPD Group, a market research concern.“
HP Reselling MySQL
Following on the heels of Novell and Dell, more vendor support for MySQL
HP now selling MySQL Network – Computerworld
Hewlett-Packard Co. is now reselling support services for MySQL AB’s open-source database, an HP spokeswoman has confirmed.
Law Lists Is No More
I remember Law Lists, put out by Lyonette Louis-Jacques, now at the U of Chicago Law School Library. Sad to see it go, but then I also remember when there was a list of all the known websites in the world…
RSS 3.0 Lite?
First Atom, now this. Quite the exciting week in feed land. Maybe I’ll write up a spec over the weekend, something like RSS 2/3.1. I wonder how to get Eweek to report it as if it were news? Anyway, I wonder what Dave will have to say?
Lightweight Version of RSS Released
“Shouldering past the community fear and loathing over Microsoft’s supposed plans to co-opt and rename its first implementation of the Web publishing technology, RSS editor Jonathan Avidan released a third, fully XML version of RSS for review and comment on Thursday.The RSS (Really Simply Syndication) 3 specification aims to fix perceived problems of inadequate documentation and “lack of concern towards modern necessities” in RSS 2.0.“