In the Star Wars: Magic of Myth exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, I learned that the AT-AT's gate was modeled after that of an elephant.
And distorted elephant noises mixed with slick highway traffic sounds were used to create the TIE Fighter sound effects.
The perfect e-mail client should also have the ability to access a system-level centralized contact database, so that any application or device connected to a single computer could access the same address book, without the need to export and import data.
The task of exporting and importing data between contact management applications can be tedious and error prone, resulting in lost custom fields, duplicate records, and misaligned field import.
If a desktop computer could host its own centralized contact database in the form of an LDAP directory, or some other form of standardized contact mangement, this would eliminate the need to synchronize address books between applications, since they could all access the same records. Also, the migration of a user's entire contact list into one central address book would conserve hard drive space, rather than have the same data duplicated for each application that uses an address book.
OpenContact.org is a forum that is devoted to exploring options for a centralized contact management system.
SOAP seems to be a useful tool for Personal Data Interchange via XML.
There is a new forum at OpenContact.org for the discussion of contact management systems, with the goal of exploring options for integrating a centralized contact management database into the operating system; and to develop an extensive set of standard fields (akin to vCard or the obscure XML based SyncML) for universally compatible contact management. This would allow every third-party application on a computer to access the same contact data set, and eliminate the need to import and export contact data on a single system.
If anyone in this thread can contribute some information about SOAP and its potential role in this initiative, please join the OpenContact.org forum.
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In the Star Wars: Magic of Myth exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, I learned that the AT-AT's gate was modeled after that of an elephant. And distorted elephant noises mixed with slick highway traffic sounds were used to create the TIE Fighter sound effects.
The task of exporting and importing data between contact management applications can be tedious and error prone, resulting in lost custom fields, duplicate records, and misaligned field import.
If a desktop computer could host its own centralized contact database in the form of an LDAP directory, or some other form of standardized contact mangement, this would eliminate the need to synchronize address books between applications, since they could all access the same records. Also, the migration of a user's entire contact list into one central address book would conserve hard drive space, rather than have the same data duplicated for each application that uses an address book.
OpenContact.org is a forum that is devoted to exploring options for a centralized contact management system.
William Levin
There is a new forum at OpenContact.org for the discussion of contact management systems, with the goal of exploring options for integrating a centralized contact management database into the operating system; and to develop an extensive set of standard fields (akin to vCard or the obscure XML based SyncML) for universally compatible contact management. This would allow every third-party application on a computer to access the same contact data set, and eliminate the need to import and export contact data on a single system.
If anyone in this thread can contribute some information about SOAP and its potential role in this initiative, please join the OpenContact.org forum.