New feature: Radio now sends and receives outline-change notifications over AIM and Jabber. This may not seem like a big deal, but it is. Let me explain:… What IM gives us: It’s fast because IM is designed to be fast. That’s the nature of the transport. It works behind firewalls and NAT (which includes lots… Continue reading

New feature: Monthly archives. You can now generate archive pages for your Radio weblog, which display all of the posts for a given month. Check a box, and you’re done… Continue reading

Mark Jenkins: “In erecting bulwarks around their domains, the major music businesses have left no entrance for the serendipity that kept the pop industry lively (and profitable) for decades. Yet the barbarians at those padlocked gates are the only people who can save the major labels’ dwindling empires.” Continue reading

On Friday night while I slept, my PowerBook G3 ran the latest preview release installation of MacOS X 10.2, a.k.a Jaguar. In at least one respect, I’m not disappointed: As Wes Felter noted, it’s fast — much faster than 10.1.5. Apps load faster, the Finder is faster, software installations are faster, booting up is faster,… Continue reading

Frontier.UserLand.Com: Beta: Instant Messaging in Frontier/Radio. “tcp.im is an instant messaging client and server framework for Frontier and Radio UserLand. With tcp.im, you can create applications that call through IM, or receive calls through IM. “The architecture is open: There’s a driver architecture which allows developers create their own drivers to handle any IM protocol.… Continue reading

Eric Soroos Confessions of a Patent Infringer: “…ActiveBuddy now has a patent on your garden variety chat bot, and they plan on enforcing the patent. Unfortunately, I’m not prior art. But lots of things on the net are… “Somehow, the patent examiners neglected to do a google search, as the first page of hits for… Continue reading

Radio UserLand: “The commentOnThisPage macro lets you add the comments feature to stories, or indeed to any page in your Radio site, whereas previously readers could only post comments in response to weblog posts.” All you have to do is add the <%radio.macros.commentOnThisPage ()%> macro to your template, and turn on the comments feature —… Continue reading

More on Macromedia and editing widgets from Timothy Appnel: “…At a meeting with Macromedia I made the same suggestion as Jake — develop a markup editor widget for the communities use. I was told that Macromedia would leave such an effort to its partners or the flash developer community at large. After several messages to… Continue reading

Lawrence Lee and Sylvain Carle both posted some very interesting and useful links in response to my questions about how to use Flash MX as a browser-based editing tool. First, Lawrence found a solution to the HTTP POST problem. A few minutes later, Sylvain blogged lots of very useful links over on A Frog in… Continue reading

Dave points to a Flash MX WYSIWYG text editor at Illogicz.com. I’d actually seen it before, but the lack of a Submit button was puzzling and raised a bunch of questions: If I wanted to integrate this editor into a browser-based application, how would I get the text back out? Does it do an HTTP… Continue reading