I've been to a few conferences where "poster sessions" have been offered, but I've always been a little confused by the title since I have never seen a poster at these sessions. Here's a post I found that gives good tips for presenting a poster session and a definition of what one is (they are supposed to have posters).
iPodder (the free, open-source podcast client) is really maturing nicely and the newest version, 2.1, is the first that would have me considering it has a primary means of managing subscriptions. The great effort may be coming to an end however as we await iTunes 4.9 with it's podcast support.
Jobs finally announced it yesterday around noon, central time. Apple will be starting to include Intel chips in its systems. I’m pretty excited about this. Apple released the PowerBook G4 a long, long time ago and there is no G5 in sight. It seemed that with IBM’s new chip production facility that the stall may be short-lived. It seems apparent now that there are no major speed-bumps in sight (at least for power-book chips) and I’m sure that IBM is more excited right now by the prospect of delivering chips for the XBOX 2, PlayStation 3 and the new Nintendo game systems.
Nokia and others think that mp3-enabled cell phones will overtake the iPod. I think that, for the time being, they are nuts. As long as you have to buy phones from only your vendor and buying a phone usually happens only when getting a new contract, people are not going to race out and get these phones. While they may sell 12 million phones a year, I would sure be interested to know how many of those are the $500+ models.
Adobe has announced the future availability of a new piece of software called co-author. It is to GoLive what Contribute is to Dreamweaver. I'm sure this product has been in the design phase for quite a while, but I question the value of introducing it now. Contribute is a well-liked, version 3 program. Why release a version 1 product that will overlap a product that you know you will be acquiring?
Wow. This is going to be big. CFAjax is the AJAX implementation for coldfusion. It allows javascript to directly call ColdFusion methods without refreshing the page. The possibilities of not having to submit and request pages blows my mind.
What is Netscape? As far as I can tell, it's been reduced to nothing more than an ISP and it's new browser is just one more branded application. The new Netscape 8 browser that came out yesterday drew some attention early as it was going to be based on Firefox, but has drawn more attention in the last couple of days because it also uses the Internet Explorer engine for other sites.