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My new baby boy, not even two months old - I was born a few weeks after the last apollo mission returned home, now a whole generation later we're going back and maybe the kids can get insterested in looking beoyd the earth.

URL To download the client and The source code. The CocoaMono bridge is named Dumbarton after the bridge from Fremont to Palo Alto which crosses stinky salt marshes crossing it can sometimes be a case of holding your nose, kind of like crossing from C# to Objective C.

URL To download the client and The source code. The CocoaMono bridge is named Dumbarton after the bridge from Fremont to Palo Alto which crosses stinky salt marshes crossing it can sometimes be a case of holding your nose, kind of like crossing from C# to Objective C.

While there's a website which gives you lots of stuff to do there's a client which gives you a ton of extra features and really highlights the fact that this was designed and built by a lot of the developers of the original (and best) Napster. Only available for Mac and Windows, but the Mac version gets a huge amount of geek cred for the application bridge they built to make mono work efficiently with Cocoa, apparently they decided Cocoa# wasn't up to speed so they built their own and released it as open source. They're also patching mono so that a linux port will eventually be releasable, the GUI is the main blocker because they claim that the servers are all running linux already.

Go Stache yourself

Apparently another application put together for the Useless App Contest - more about it on Dustin's imeem blog

http://www.imeem.com/ lets you change the privacy levels on every link to friends, groups, blogs and even individual pieces of info in your profile. So, you can certainly lock down your information if you're worried about NSA data mining.

It seems like such a simple feature I'm surprised that nobody else does it (or at least does it without sucking)

Sounds like imeem - any other slashdotters out there using imeem for connecting and sharing?

Look at imeem.com they've had a distributed client based network with all these features for over a year. A lot of the developers are ex-napster, the ones that didn't go to snocap ended up at imeem.

Unlike all the other purely web offerings imeem is built around a client and a distributed data model - making it technologicly the most interesting of the sites in the article. It's not been too successful so far but a lot of the smartest people I've met are using imeem - mostly because they're developers. It's really a shame, but the best technology rarely leads the market in popularity.
As a company imeem is doing good things for open source, I see that they're really pushing the development of mono, particularly on OSX where they're using it as a platform to run the same .Net code as powers the windows client.

'I voted for you - did you vote for me' - at least that's what the blog says ;-)

http://efrenramirez.imeem.com/photo/0MCW7w6O/K184B j6EJ60T_

Mono is a more complete environment than any open source version of Java has ever managed - Miguel et al have done great things - now even commercial products like imeem are using it for their data center and Unix ports.

And it's a landmark composition in Electronic music - composed by Ron Granier and spliced together out of tape 'samples' by Dorothy Derbyshire.

http://snm.imeem.com/blogentry/fei0wfrP

I mean the basic model hasn't seen any real innovation in the years it's been with us. Was I the only person who was completely underwhelmed by google chat - shouldn't the IM networks be extending their products and doing innovative stuff. Look at Imeem.com they've got an instant communication application that's does chat, blogs,file sharing, multimedia - and supposedly it all runs over an encrypted network with all hte content decentralised for speed and efficiency - like a distributed version of google.

So leave IM and head for the next gen.

I've got IRC, and the only thing I've seen that might supplant it is imeem but no version is available yet (althoug it runs on mono without a UI - so it must be possible)

Look at imeem they've got a distributed social network, multimedia sharing, communications tool. Put everything in one place and use the resources on each computer in the network to accelerate the whole thing.
I've been using imeem for a while and I've got to say, when I heard google was releasing an IM client I thought it would be something like imeem....

Maybe they should use that in ads - Imeem - for everyone disappointed by Google chat

I've seen comments in a few places that suggest that imeem is linked with Google. There was a story yesterday asking whether imeem was the next google? It's like a client application that does everything you'd ever need, it apparently caches and indexes content so that search queries get shared amongst the clients in the network and data gets swarmed out. Brilliant idea, but has anyone else heard the google rumours?

I've seen friends using imeem from the Alexis Park network at defcon, since my job title at imeem is 'Security Architect' I know that someone is trusting my security-fu enough to give it a spin on what is very likely the antithesis to the phrase 'Trusted Network'.
I Always loved the Wall of Shame^H^H^H^H^HSheep showing all the individuals who were clueless enough to log into unencrypted services from the Defcon network.

Oh yeah, I'll probably disable the links if my BW usage gets too high - If you want the really high quality versions then you can grab them from me via imeem

There's already quite a lot of chinese users, and the application supports free blogging (and international character sets) - seems like a good fit?

They've got this 'do it all' software which includes blogging alongside other features like file sharing, IM, photo sharing and other tricks. http://blogs.imeem.com/ Are these kind of hybrid services the next place that things are going?

Is a PoS 90% of users won't get much use from it.... but as a hacker I've got it doing exactly what I want - it's a linux system so it's possible to get your own apps onto the firmware and customize it in ways that Dlink never intended.
It does have a lot of things going for it
1) Ogg/Vorbis support - as an early contributer I'm happy to play my ogg collect - but the metadata support sucks
2) XviD support - again, my codec of choice for video.... except that it has a lot of sync problems and drops a lot of frames/freezes up randomly.
3) Wireless G by default - 802.11b is nmo good for video.
4) Every connector on the backplane you'd ever need.

It's frustrating, since I can dig around I can see how easy it would be to make this thing absolutely rock, but dlink just isn't supporting it. This may be because it's a repackaged Redsonic player....

Anyway... time to get imeem running on this creature ;-)

http://www.imeem.com/
It's an application that's still in Beta - basicallly takes all the communications stuff we use - IM, mail, blogs, groups, forums, galleries file sharing etc etc and rolls it into one all in one application. Remember that /. story about the bounty for adding file sharing to Gaim the theory was that sharing with friends is more likely to be legal than sharing with every user on the internet. Well these guys must've been way ahead of the curve on that one, the file sharing is just good enough to make it interesting to the p2p crowd. I see that some of the employees came from Napster. They also make a big thing about encrypting all the content in the network to protect you - unlike every other IM app.

It should score huge Kudos points here because the developers say that they wrote te whole thing in C# and they're running the servers on Mono.

I've been using imeem for a little while and it kicks ass compared to AIM. It's the new thing that a bunch of bloggers have been talking about. its all encrypted and lets you do p2p filesharing and photosharign as well as just chat, and some other stuff.

On the downside, it's still really hard to get an invite to it, and I haven't convinced all of my friends to move over yet. Everyone loves AIM too much.