Technology- Wikis and Wireless
I’m looking into a wiki to use for my home and new ventures. At Pure Networks we used
Confluence which was
very nice. I’ve signed up for the at-home-personal-use version of it which lets you have two users for
personal use, but installing it can be a
giant pain. At Judy’s Book we are using
JotSpot which is hosted so I’m going to give that a try especially since
they have a free trial.
One brief note about yesterday’s post- I wrote the whole thing and uploaded it on the drive back from the hike using my Motorola Q phone and the PDANet software
to connect my laptop to the Internet using the phone. Very cool and the connection was surprisingly good during most of the drive. It’s very cool that you
can have decent Internet connections just about anywhere now, but dealing with all the different networks- wifi, wi-max, EVDO, other cell technologies is just a mess. It
is hard for me to believe that within 5 years we won’t have just one thing (even if there are actually different sub-protocols) that gives you network connectivity anywhere.
Of course I could be wrong- there are some pretty different technical issues between long distance radio frequency vs. short distance, latency issues, and the worst
barrier to actually serving the customer here is the various business models of the wireless providers who want to find as many ways to charge you $40/month for 3 of 4
almost identical services as long as they can.
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