In case you're that bored (or merely curious), I added two entries
in [Dev/IdeasForDev] regarding two old ideas. The
first one
is related to [Dev/Xeres], the
second one
to [Izumi|WhatIsIzumi].
That first idea
has to do with how to integrate an answering machine like
capability in an audio/video stream that adapts to bandwidth. It's not exactly
new, yet I realized I had never wrote it down before.
The second idea
has to do with the purpose of [Izumi|WhatIsIzumi] -- that is I'm an engineer
so I tend to explain projects from a technical point of view of how they work,
yet somehow I understand that it is sometimes more relevant to ignore all
technical details and simply solve one problem. Even if a system is made
generic to solve more than the one problem at hand, people may not understand
what the generic system will solve. Instead it is easier to just tell them
exactly what they can do with it. Then once they get used to it, they may
start asking for more functionality and with some luck the system can be
expanded to include that.
If I apply this view to [Izumi|WhatIsIzumi], instead of describing it as a
content management system I could describe it has a place to keep links,
photo albums and other kind of material centralized on a server, with
automated mechanisms to publish it on the net (thus potentially indexable
by search engines) and of course the ability to decide what is public or
private. |