What is next for the Blink SIP client / softphone? What is AG Projects all about? At ITEXPO, host Dan York caught up with AG Projects Founder and CEO Adrian Georgescu and spoke about the Blink SIP client (Adrian doesn’t call it a “softphone”) and about the other work of AG Projects.

To learn more and download Blink for Mac OS X or Windows, you can visit http://icanblink.com/

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What would the perfect jacket look like for the tech-savvy traveler to conferences and events? How could you easily carry all your technology and content creation gear? Host Dan York caught up with Phil Campbell at a recent event and Phil demonstrated his custom-made “Digital Nomad Jacket” that lets him easily travel with all his equipment.

Note from Dan: The jacket was just way too geeky and clearly had to be recorded! I particularly enjoyed the MiFi-in-the-pocket so that Phil can walk along streaming video directly out of his iPod touch across the cellular networks. And yes, I wouldn’t mind having one of these myself!

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In this episode, host Dan York reviews the book “Pragmatic Guide to Git“, written by Travis Swicegood and published in November 2010 by The Pragmatic Programmers. He explains how the book is structured, how he likes the way it works for reference… and one little nit he has about the formatting.

A long-time fan and user of the git distributed version control system, (and on Github as danyork) Dan previously recorded two other ETT episodes about git:

• Emerging Tech Talk #24 – Learning Git, Part 1 – Intro to Version Control Systems
• Emerging Tech Talk #25 – Learning Git, Part 2 – Getting Started with Git

(And yes, he still needs to finish the part 3 that explains Github.)

Voxeo also makes software available through github.com/voxeo and github.com/tropo

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How do you connect a USB headset to an iPad? Do you have an iPad and want to use Skype or other VoIP softphones? Would you like to use a USB headset instead of just the speaker/mic? In this episode, host Dan York shows the 3 simple steps to using a USB headset with the Apple iPad via Apple’s iPad “Camera Connection Kit”.

(In ETT#52, Dan demonstrated the full range of what the Camera Connection Kit could do.)

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Want to know what the Apple iPad “Camera Connection Kit” is all about? In this episode, host Dan York “unboxes” the kit he bought ($29 from Apple’s site) and demonstrates how it works with both a SD card and a direct USB connection to the camera. And… if you hang in to the end, you’ll see how the USB connector can be used to have a USB headset work with Skype on the iPad!

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Have you wanted to use a VoIP softphone from your iPhone or iPad? Sure, Skype is available, but what if you want to use a softphone that works with SIP and can connect to a corporate IP-PBX? In this episode, host Dan York reviews the new Bria softphone for the iPhone that was released this week by CounterPath Corp. He shows how it works, how it can connect to applications running on Voxeo’s Prophecy Hosting or Tropo platforms and offers some other comments about the app.

The Bria app costs $3.99 in the iPhone AppStore. More info can be found at: http://www.counterpath.com/bria-iphone-edition.html

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NOTE: In the hour since this screencast was posted, I’ve noticed that the “easypublic@appspot.com” wave bot is now not quickly making waves public to which it is added. Having no connection whatsoever to that Wave bot, I don’t know if there is a capacity issue that is impacting it right now.

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How can you use Google Wave as a powerful tool for collaborative note taking and conversation at a conference? In this screencast, host Dan York shows how Wave was used at eComm Europe and how you can set up public waves so that you can do this kind of collaborative work at a conference or event.

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The process Dan outlines is this:

1. Create a new wave, title it, add some initial content, etc.
2. Add “easypublic@appspot.com” as a participant to the wave.
3. Tag the wave with the conference/event ID

The wave is now public and can be found by a search in Wave on “tag:tagname with:public”.

To add the new wave to a list in another wave, do this:

1. Open the wave with the list.
2. Click on the blip in the wave where you want to add the link to the new wave, and then open that blip for editing (Ctrl+E is one way).
3. In the main column of Wave, click on the right edge of the new wave and drag/drop that into the blip you are editing.
4. You now will have a link to your new wave. Save and close the blip you are editing.

If you want to connect with Dan York on Wave, you can find him at “danyorkLPG@googlewave.com”.

Special mention should be made of eComm Europe attendee Johanna Kollman who built off of what the Google Wave team started and really showed how this collaboration could be done through all the eComm waves she set up. Thanks, Johanna!

P.S. For those interested, the audio for this episode was recorded using the Blue Eyeball webcam I discussed in the last ETT episode.

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Dan York recently purchased a Blue Eyeball USB webcam and in this episode provides an initial review of the portable webcam and shows a video comparison of the Eyeball to his Mac’s built-in iSight camera.

Product info: http://www.bluemic.com/consumeraudio/webcams.html (Dan has the 1.0 camera)

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Host Dan York spoke with independent developer Ted Gilchrist about the VnoTed service he created that lets you call in and post location updates to Brightkite, and also have those updates go out to Twitter and Friendfeed.

[UPDATE: Shortly after I uploaded the show, Ted contacted me to let me know that unfortunately VnoTed is not working right now due to the Brightkite API being broken. He has apparently been waiting for Brightkite to fix their API, but has not yet seen any movement. Not to be deterred, Ted is already exploring ways that he might rewrite the VnoTed service to use another location-based service that has a stable API. Stay tuned...]

Beyond the actual function of location-based voice notes, Ted’s service is quite an interesting mashup of services. As he describes in a document, VnoTed uses:

• Brightkite
• Google App Engine for web hosting
• Amazon S3 for storage of voice notes
• Voxeo’s Tropo.com for the voice interaction
• Voxeo’s IMified for setting hashtags
• Google Maps to get the latitude and longitude of a US ZIP code

Ted has also made his VnoTed code open source and posted it to Github. Those interested can download the code and experiment with it directly. More info about Ted and his work can be found on www.vnoted.com or on Twitter at @egilchri.

For those wondering about the background, this video was recorded in the Voxeo booth at SpeechTEK in August 2009 in New York City.

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What is most interesting about Google Wave? Back in June 2009 at an event happening near the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, MA, I had a chance to sit down with Christopher S. Penn and get his thoughts about the recently-announced Google Wave and how it might be used as a communication tool. As I listened to this recording today, I was struck by how much of it was echoed in a recent blog post I put up about the need for distributed and decentralized systems – we do need that distributed/decentralized approach. I know that while the Wave protocol is published, federation is not yet possible with Wave. Let’s hope it comes soon.

While I know that Chris’ views on Wave may have changed in the 3 months since we recorded this session, I thought the points he makes are great. More info about Chris can be found at:

• http://www.marketingovercoffee.com/
• http://www.christopherspenn.com/
• http://twitter.com/cspenn

Thanks, Chris, for agreeing to do the interview – and should we have the opportunity to do another one, I’ll try to get it up online sooner! My apologies for the delay.

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