The GeoChat solution

May 9, 2008

I just wanted to let you all know that we are working hard on building out InSTEDD’s GeoChat platform to bring you a viable Twitter-like solution for sat phone users. I was introduced to Eduardo Jezierski and Daniel Cazzulino of InSTEDD through Evan, Mikel, Schuyler and Jesse (Many thanks to you all!) on Wednesday and […]

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Send GPS coordinates from your Thuraya to Twitter

May 2, 2008

First off, I apologize for the long delay.  I still need to review Cradlepoint’s PHS300 Personal Hotspot and a few other items and will try to do so in the next few days.  In the mean time I think I have come up with a way for aid workers using Thurayas (and I assume Iridiums) […]

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RemoteX for Skype

December 1, 2007

RemoteX works well but not as well as I had hoped.  It is a bit slow, even over a broadband connection, and so cannot compare with services like LogMeIn.com.  However, it is easy to use so in a pinch could serve it’s purpose. LINK Tweet

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Ode to Skype

November 27, 2007

Of all the applications I have had the pleasure of using over the years one stands out above all the rest. Skype has been the aid worker’s friend for quite some time and has saved organizations countless dollars and perhaps even a few lives. The call quality is nearly perfect and you can’t beat the […]

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AirJaldi

October 5, 2007

Check out what Yahel is doing over at airjaldi.org.  I am pretty sure he told me he’s got one of the world’s largest mesh networks in and around Dharmsala. Tweet

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Digging robots

October 5, 2007

We just received an iRobot Roomba 560 vacuum cleaner as a gift and man is it cool. I know they have been around for forever but to watch it in action is a fantastic waste of time. I’ve been discussing drones and UAV’s with some folks but now robots are on my radar. Check out […]

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Shrink Pic – Simple photo compression for the field

October 2, 2007

I should have written about this long ago when I first heard about it but unfortunately this blog did not exist back then.  A fine Dutch gentleman in Indonesia mentioned that I might try it as he found it worked splendidly over low bandwidth networks and indeed it does.  What is it?  Shrink Pic is […]

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Kara Swisher has got it right – Facebook is a non-starter

October 2, 2007

Check out Kara’s post over at AllThingsD here. $10 billion for Facebook? I opened a Facebook account several weeks ago which was about 10 years after I opened a Friendster account, all because of an invite from one person. Back then you had to enter a person’s email, now Facebook just sucks up your address […]

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The ‘Dark Hours’

October 1, 2007

“One thing that most people don’t think about are the ‘dark hours‘ when VSAT have minimal load. These are usually the hours from 6pm-8am. The only thing updating are the machines that are left one and only if there is city power available since no one leaves a generator running when no one is there […]

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The beauty of forgotten networks

September 25, 2007

Forgotten networks are beautiful things. They are the unheralded heroes of the rest of the world. They are the pathways through the rice patties along which the rickshaws of the internet carry all the world’s staples. Unacknowledged by the networking gods and shunned by their flashier, sexier counterparts they move the data that none of […]

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