Breaking the Web Wide Open!
Check it out - the four part article is now one giant article.
Something for the blogroll.
Something to be referring to for a long time. I spent a long time writing this article. Its where we were circa summer of 2005.
My apologies to anyone I missed.
If you think you should have been mentioned or if any efforts you’re working on should be in here - in an update - please let me know.
Thanks
Besides that - it’s pretty coolio - if you ask me.
October 28th, 2005 at 10:13 am
Dood! - What a great wrap up of the stuff we’ve been working on and paying attention to over the last couple years! I’m grabbing me a copy and hanging onto it.
I’d throw uPnP (http://www.upnp.org/) into your device management and control bucket. It was completely below the radar for me until I decided to redo my home audio setup. Previously I had a nice amp in the living room driving a couple pairs of remote speakers.
I bought a netgear wireless digital music player, that talks to uPnP server software allowing it to plays MP3 on my server, which I then fed that into a switchabe line level wire that I ran through the whole house and hooked to a batch of small sets of powered speakers.
The Netgear software that ran on the server wasn’t so great though. Then I found twonkyvision (http://www.twonkyvision.de/), a web-based uPnP server that is device agnostic (and serves streaming internet audio without the $20 annual fees that netgear wanted).
uPnP should make it possible for me to eventually have a WiFi remote that controls the audio through the whole house (and twonkyvision has open source uPnP stacks and a plug-in architecture). Perhaps a nascent tech for NEXT year?
June 13th, 2006 at 3:23 pm
Great job guys… Thank for you work…