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Wednesday, May 29, 2002

Trillian I've been using Trillian now for as long as I can remember. The reason being I was getting tired of running ICQ and Yahoo and because I have one colleague who likes to use MSN. With Trillian I have been working perfectly fine with all my contacts on ICQ, Yahoo and MSN. Plus it isn't nearly as much as a memory pig as ICQ or Yahoo on their own. Of course I still keep Yahoo around for the occasional voice chat etc. Trillian's IM program that lets people connect with all the major IM services (for the time being) is growing very rapidly, despite the companies small size and lack of marketing power. However, by simply doing what the big players refuse to do (interoperating), and thereby giving usrs exactly what they want, people are flocking to Trillian. It's amazing what giving your users what they want will do. The study also points out that Trillian users tend to spend more time on IM than any of the other major players. However, that could just be because the types of folks who have heard about Trillian are those of us who seem to spend a ridiculous amount of time online (not that there's anything wrong with that...). Source: http://techdirt.com/articles/20020529/1026238.shtml   3:35:25 PM     I've been using Userland Radio as a news aggregator for quite some time now. However, as of late it just wasn't doing it for me and I began to develop my own web based news aggregator. I haven't gotten too far with it yet. I've also tried just about every one of these that Jon mentions in his article except for Newz Crawler. So far it is looking really slick and just about everything I was looking for. Its not web based but does give other features that one would probably not be able to do with a web based one anyway. I'm going to run it for the next week or so and then either continue with my own development or just use this. Personal RSS aggregators, and a personal note about BYTE. Here's my final column for BYTE.com, on personal RSS aggregators. Pardon me while I wax sentimental for a moment. It has been a long and meaningful relationship. ... [Jon's Radio]   3:13:52 PM     Groove to RCS publishing Very interesting. I've sent an email to Tim Knip to see what other options he's working on to publish data from Groove. I have no need to run a Radio Community Server (RCS) but I'd love to publish my Groove content in OPML or XML or some such thing. Tim Knip:  Now I can publish the contents of several Groove tools using the RU-community server + XML-RPC. Check out this OPML created from an Outliner Tool in Groove, and then sent to the RU-server using xmlStorageSystem.SaveMultipleFiles. This concept can be used for almost every Tool in Groove. [Jeroen Bekkers' Groove Weblog]   2:48:30 PM

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