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TeledyN: How to Slay the RIAA

Posted by garym on Wed, 10/29/2003 - 09:14

Teledyn is calling on contributors and angel investors to fund a new distributed music distribution system that actually pays and in the process launch a plan to anihilate the cash stream that sustains the RIAA by obsolescing the music CD as a medium for music exchange. Roughly put, the funding is to create a Howard Dean style network of interconnected promotion portals ...

a new portal where subscribing promoters and studios could directly announce their content and recording sessions, but where any RSS-enabled band, promoter, studio or venue could get their feed aggregated for the cost of an email message telling me the URL. I would develop the core engine, host the site, moderate and maintain the site, weed the spam, roll out new services, and fold all custom developments back into the creative commons

Which is simple enough, but the second stage of the plan is where it really gets going, because it's a plan to evoke a cultural shift to reduce the CD to what it is, an obsolete poor excuse for cheap broadband.

[ Source: TeledyN: How to Slay the RIAA ]

Fear and Loathing in the Call-Center Grids

Posted by garym on Thu, 10/16/2003 - 13:44

It's two a.m. and your call center people are scattered about the country-side, each at their station with their usual set of quick-reference cards and FAQ lists, only, there's a difference happening, or rather, a difference that is not happening, but it could ...

CC-102/Toronto: Survivor's on tonight, u gonna watch?
CC-218/Owen Sound: Probably, if I'm still awake, got tomorrow night off

Here's a shocker: Call-centre staff are people. They are real people with real lives and real interests, and they have common interests -- studies show that people are more alert and more effective when they tune to each other, they function better as a unit, sharing information, channeling business flow; this directed tuning drives a whole instant-messaging industry ... students know two heads are better than one when it comes to doing their homework, and they know twenty are better than two, so why do we design call-centers with each call handler firmly blindered to their call-queue (and their knitting).

Is it because we fear they may talk?

Guess what ...

CC-102/Toronto: I don't start until 11. sec .. I got a call
CC-102/Toronto: some guy needs to change the font on the Linux port of SAP. Not in my FAQ. Anybody?

They will talk anyway, so why won't we serve them?  read more »

Download OpenOffice.org Release Candidate 1.1

Posted by garym on Sun, 07/20/2003 - 19:49

Teledynamics is pleased to announce the addition of OpenOffice.org version 1.1 Release Candidate to our popular OpenOffice.org on the Open Content Network P2P file download page.

Release Candidate 1.1 is proving to be a hot item, swamping the file server mirrors who carry it. Using OCN, we are able to serve the file simultaneously from half a dozen mirrors world-wide as well as pulling portions of the file from any other downloaders who remain connected to the network. Because the strain on server network resources decreases as demand for the content grows, OCN provides the perfect vehicle for distributing large and popular free-software files such as OpenOffice.org.

[ Free download: OpenOffice.org on the Open Content Network ]

OpenOffice.org on the OCN

Posted by garym on Wed, 07/09/2003 - 20:52

Teledynamics is pleased once again to provide blazing high-speed downloading of the new OpenOffice.org 1.0.3.1 release for Windows, Solaris and Linux, brought to your desktop via the peer-to-peer Open Content Network

You already know what OpenOffice.org is, and if you don't, then you just go on with your life burning hundreds of dollars needlessly on your office productivity software. Or don't, just burn your pricey licensing agreements instead and click through to discover why all those OO.o users are smiling all the way to the bank. Your choice.

But what is this OCN jazz? It\'s a peer-to-peer file-trading network where we all share the load of downloading popular files. Basically, you get some, I get some, you give me some, I give you some, and when everyone is doing this all together, we can all get the files without killing some server. To get the network going, we've pulled together mirror sites from around the world; your download will automatically balance to favour file sources nearest to your location, adding sources until your Internet pipe can take no more.

Does it work? You bet it does.

Is it really fast? You tell me ...

[ Free Download: OpenOffice.org on the Open Content Network ]

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