links for 2005-12-07

links for 2005-12-05

  • Snakelets is a very simple-to-use Python web application server. It provides a threaded web server (you don’t have to provide a web server such as Apache yourself), Ypages (Python HTML template language, similar to Java’s JSPs) and Snakelets: code-centric
  • McGeekCode is a light, fast, apache php mysql based CMS with RSS reader, gallery and gallery commenting, boards, content ownership, user management and a simple interface.
    (tags: mysql php CMS blog)

Cisco To Acquire Set-Top Leader Scientific-Atlanta

Cisco Systems Inc. agreed to buy Scientific-Atlanta Inc. for $6.9 billion, adding the second-largest U.S. maker of set-top boxes for cable television and tapping into the growing market for Internet TV.Cisco, based in San Jose, California, will pay $43 a share, the companies said today in a Business Wire statement. The offer is 3.7 percent higher than Lawrenceville, Georgia-based Scientific- Atlanta’s closing price yesterday.

Bloomberg.com: Top Worldwide

This would seem to give Cisco a leg-up on the race to grab the sofa surfer market.  S-A boxes currently provide hi-def, DVR, and a host of other features.  DVD burners are coming. The boxes are networkable and Cisco has Linksys.  It isn’t too much of a leap to imagine a S-A box talking to a Linksys router and beaming content all over the house as well as receiving downloads of music, movies, and photos.  It beats adding a MSFT media PC to my home theater rig.

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BBC Works on Annotatable Audio

This post concerns an experimental internal-BBC-only project designed to allow users to collectively describe, segment and annotate audio in a Wikipedia-style fashion. It was developed by the BBC Radio & Music Interactive R&D team – for this project consisting of myself, Tristan Ferne, Chris Bowley, Helen Crowe, Paul Clifford and Bronwyn Van Der Merwe. Although the project is a BBC project, all the speculation and theorising around the edges is my own and does not necessarily represent the opinion of my department or the BBC in general.

On the BBC Annotatable Audio project… (plasticbag.org)

Blogging with Flock

This is going to be interesting.  Flock is a new sort of browser that is blogger friendly, among other things.  This post is created with Flock.  You can find Flock here.  And I just added this, so you can edit too.  Categories would be nice.