TELECOM Digest     Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:30:00 EST    Volume 26 : Issue 59

Inside This Issue:                            Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Build Your Own Social Sites (Eric Auchard, Retuers)
    NY Youths in Plea Deal in MySpace Case (Linda Deutsch, AP)
    CommunicationsDirect News Daily Update (communicationsdirect_daily)
    Launch of Apple's TV Device on Hold (USTelecom dailyLead)
    Re: BBS: The Documentary (T)
    Re: Morton Grove, Illinois (was Party Line Dialing) (T)
    Re: Virtual Strip Searches Begun at Phoenix Airport (Robert Bonomi)
    Re: Telephone Area Codes and Prefixes (Robert Bonomi)

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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:08:23 -0600
From: Eric Auchard, Reuters <reuters@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Build Your Own Social Sites


Build your own social sites, Netscape founder says 
By Eric Auchard

Ning, the latest startup of Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, is
looking to get a jump ahead of MySpace and Facebook by giving
consumers free tools to create and operate specialized online social
networks of their own.

The two-year-old Silicon Valley-based company said the new service, to
be introduced on Tuesday, allows casual Web users to create, within a
matter of minutes, a highly customized social network for one's
friends, family or acquaintances.

Social networks have caught fire in recent years among active Web
users who use them to connect to people with shared interests. Popular
sites range from hangouts for teenagers and their friends to video
game fans or business professionals.

Sites like MySpace offer Web users individual profile pages they can
use to connect to friends, but typically keep control of the
underlying network, including advertising sales.

By contrast, users within each Ning network can select the latest Web
features for watching videos online, creating a photo slideshow,
listening to music or publishing a blog. Members have far greater
flexibility over the look of their personal profile pages, buddy lists
and site color schemes.

"Other social network sites ask you to join their world. We are about
people creating their own worlds," said Ning Chief Executive Gina
Bianchini, who co-founded Ning with Andreessen.

Bianchini and Andreessen took part in a joint interview.

Ning sites can be public or private, with the company retaining rights
to run targeted advertising on member sites. But users can pay sliding
monthly fees for the right to run their own advertising, substitute
their own Web address, or add storage or bandwidth for high-traffic
Web sites.

SOCIAL NETWORKS IN AN INSTANT

Ning http://www.ning.com is part of a new class of companies that 
analysts call the "do-it-yourself" Web.

Startups like Ning, Coghead and Teqlo give online users control not
just over individual Web pages or sites, but the ability to create new
Web applications for themselves, even if they have little or no
software programming experience.

Ning focuses on consumers while the others are more business oriented.
Another such company, JotSpot was acquired recently by Google Inc. as
part of the Web search leader's push into the software market
dominated by Microsoft.

Ning made a splash 18 months ago among Web enthusiasts when it
introduced its first set of basic online applications like restaurant
reviews and celebrity fan sites that it allowed users to clone in
order to create Web applications of their own.

"The whole point of providing customization and freedom is that you
want to give people something super simple at first but then, as they
get more sophisticated, you want to give them the ability to get more
creative," Andreessen said.

It's a shift that could take years, but eventually prove as important
as the take-off of blog publishing tools five years ago, said
Forrester Research analyst Charlene Li. "People are just getting into
this idea of having more control over the environment in which they
use the Web," Li said.

Bianchini said her company will begin releasing a steady flow of new
features, every two weeks. Functions can be added to established Ning
social network sites with a simple drag and drop motion, she
demonstrated in the interview. Upcoming features could include a
calendar or e-commerce capabilities.

"If we do this right there will be hundreds of thousands of Web sites
that look different from each other," said Bianchini, who previously
founded a Web marketing firm and sold it to Japanese advertising giant
Dentsu Inc. in 2003.

Copyright 2007 Reuters Limited.

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[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I am very confused about
something. Suppose I want to embed a Windows Media Player into a web
site I have built and allow the user to either listen or not, and to
choose one of several radio stations if they choose to listen, and to
be able to change stations as they are listening to the radio, subject
to buffering, etc. Exactly how do I pass the URL/file name from the
'FORM' where I 'SELECT' the stations from an 'OPTION' list of same to
the media player? To make this as simple as possible, I am going to 
use Windows Media and IE-6 for the whole thing.

Now I *think* (and there I go, trying to use my diseased brain to
think with once again!) I could use lines of code something like
these:
<xmp>
<div align=center>
<SELECT id=cancion onchange=document.all.music.filename=document.all.cancion.va\lue;size=1 name=Music>
<OPTION selected>:::::::::Choose Program Here:::::::::</OPTION>
<OPTION> put URL here >describe it</OPTION>
<OPTION> a second choice here>describe it</OPTION>
<OPTION> maybe a third choice>describe it</OPTION>
 ... and so forth ... 
Then eventually add this code:

</SELECT><BR>
<OBJECT id=music height=48 width=295
classid=clsid:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95>
<PARAM NAME="AutoStart" VALUE="1">
<PARAM NAME="ShowStatusBar" VALUE="1">
<PARAM NAME="Balance" VALUE="0">
<PARAM NAME="DisplaySize" VALUE="0">
<PARAM NAME="Filename" VALUE="">
<PARAM NAME="Mute" VALUE="0">
<PARAM NAME="SelectionStart" VALUE="-1">
<PARAM NAME="SelectionEnd" VALUE="-1">
<PARAM NAME="ShowControls" VALUE="-1">
<PARAM NAME="ShowAudioControls" VALUE="-1">
<PARAM NAME="ShowDisplay" VALUE="0">
<PARAM NAME="ShowPositionControls" VALUE="-1">
<PARAM NAME="Volume" VALUE="0">
<PARAM NAME="AudioStream" VALUE="-1">
</xmp>
Followed by a truck load of other PARAM NAMES and values for same, but
my problem is _how_ do I pass the URL from earlier to the player, when
I do not control the player itself, which is on the user's computer?
Now I am assuming the user has Windows Media and I.E. 6 or greater.

My experiments thus far have gotten me to the point that with a fresh
window, I can get any of my choices to play correctly, but to swap
and start listening to another selection either the player or the
form (or both) is getting confused somewhere. I do not want to tell
the user 'please re-draw your screen to make another choice'. There 
must be a way to use an html form to feed an already running player?
And I am not yet going to get into the myriad of versions of Windows 
and media players. Tell me what to do.   PAT]

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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:11:36 -0600
From: Linda Deutsch, AP  <ap@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: NY Youths in Plea Deal in MySpace Case


By LINDA DEUTSCH, AP Special Correspondent

Two New York men accused of trying to extort $150,000 from MySpace.com 
by developing code that tracked visitors pleaded no contest Monday to 
illegal computer access in a bargain with the prosecution.

Two counts of attempted extortion and another illegal computer access
count were dropped in the deal, which gave the defendants three years
probation. Each had faced up to nearly four years in prison.

Shaun Harrison, 19, and Saverio Mondelli, 20, of Suffolk County, N.Y.,
were accused of demanding the money as a "consulting fee" from the
News Corp. subsidiary. The pair were offering the code on their own
Web site for $29.95 and claimed to be developing an unbreakable
version. MySpace had blocked the existing version after it was
discovered.

The popular MySpace social-networking site -- where people create 
elaborate profiles and personalize them with photos, music and video --
is supposed to offer anonymity to visitors who browse the pages.

But Harrison and Mondelli's program collected e-mail addresses and 
Internet Protocol addresses, prosecutors said. Such information could 
have been used by stalkers trying to locate MySpace users, said Deputy 
District Attorney Jeffrey A. McGrath.

The men sold access to several versions of the code to computer users, 
who could then apply it to their own MySpace profiles. That type of 
traffic monitoring violates MySpace's rules.

The men boasted they had around 85,000 registered users of their
tracking program, but investigators have not determined how much
information users were able to cull, McGrath said.

The plea bargain, also agreed to by Paul L. Gabbert, attorney for the
young men, severely restricts their access to computers, limits them
to one e-mail address each, and requires they do 160 hours of
community service and pay MySpace $13,500 in restitution.

Superior Court Commissioner Kristi Lousteau told the defendants that
if they violate their agreement they could go to prison. She said they
will be subject to search of their computers at any time and they may
not access MySpace.com directly or indirectly.

The defendants stood before the commissioner and acknowledged the
terms of the agreement, but neither spoke other than to answer "yes."

Outside court, Gabbert said that the agreement came from "the
recognition that they are young and made a mistake and to give them a
second chance."

He said they set up their business right out of high school, are going
to college and "they will continue to be creative and not transgress
the law."

McGrath said the young men, who were extremely proficient in the Web
multimedia program Flash, were discovered by the operators of MySpace
and were sent a "cease and desist" order by e-mail.

The pair sent a reply saying, "We will neither cease nor desist" and
announced on their Web site that they were developing an even more
sophisticated system that would soon be for sale, prosecutors said.

The problem for MySpace was that the pair's identities were not known
because they were operating under pseudonyms.

The prosecution said the company then began "quasi negotiations" with
the two. They were arrested last May when they flew to Los Angeles to
collect the $150,000 but actually met with undercover Secret Service
and district attorney's investigators, prosecutors said.

Hemanshu Nigam, chief security officer for MySpace, said the site is
committed to protecting users.

"We are pleased with outcome of this case and hope that it sends a
message to anyone thinking about causing harm to the MySpace
community," Nigam said in an e-mail statement.

McGrath said there are other companies offering similar services on
the Internet and that MySpace is constantly trying to shut them down.

Copyright 2007 The Associated Press.

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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:13:33 EST


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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:45:36 CST
From: USTelecom dailyLead <ustelecom@dailylead.com>
Subject: Launch of Apple's TV Device on Hold


USTelecom dailyLead
February 27, 2007
http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/gnhsfDtusXmKjCCibuddNOJm

TODAY'S HEADLINES

NEWS OF THE DAY
* Launch of Apple's TV device on hold
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WATCH
* Embarq promotes bundled offering
* AT&T signs distribution deal with Scripps Networks
* Baltimore County Council in talks with Verizon
* Alltel sticks with Convergys
* AOL looks at buying cell-phone ad firm
TECHNOLOGY TRENDS
* Home networking standard gains international approval
* Vox to develop VoIP networks with CityvoiceTEL
* Siemens unveils FMC solution
* Mobile companies mull bar code standard for handsets
* TI aims VoIP solutions at small businesses

Follow the link below to read quick summaries of these stories and others.
http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/gnhsfDtusXmKjCCibuddNOJm

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From: T <nospam.kd1s@cox.nospam.net>
Subject: Re: BBS: The Documentary
Organization: The Ace Tomato and Cement Company
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:17:42 -0500


In article <telecom0.0.5@telecom-digest.org>, christopherz.lee@gmail.com 
says:

> Yeah! A retro of old skool 80s geek out there at
> http://geekvideo.blogspot.com/2007/02/bbs-documentary.html

Awesome -- lots of younger people remember the BBS which is amazing. 

Here's how I got into it. Back in 1982 I'd just graduated high school
and bought myself a Radio Shack DC-1 modem. This was the one where you
had to dial then flip the switch when you detected carrier, etc.

I did so on the advice of a friend who told me about this cool new thing 
called the BBS. Providence, RI had but one BBS at the time called 
NYBBLINK. About a month after I'd gotten the modem NYBBLINK went belly 
up. 

So I pressured my friend and together we built a BBS package for the 
TRS-80 Model III called Syslink. Well, Syslink begat PowerCor and 
PowerNet. The guy who built the Power* systems was Andy Green, who then 
formed Intelicom Data Systems or IDS. IDS is now Conversent 
Communications. 

So all because I bought a modem and had nothing to connect to. Imagine 
that. 

For a few years in the late 80's I was the sysop for Syslink, but by 
then it was running on a PC under TBBS. 


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I started my BBS'ing in 1979 under the
tutalage of Randy Seuss in Chicago, but instead of the software and
computer he operated, I chose to use an Apple ][+ and a variation on
the People's Message System of Bill Blue. I got the Apple in 1981 and
thought that was better to use than the older OSI C-l-P machine I had.
I kept *Lakeshore Modem Magazine* alive through the end of 1985 at 
which point I was pretty much involved in Usenet all the time. During
that same time period I was also sysop of the Chicago Public Library
BBS for about three years, but that (CPL) was on a volunteer basis
(which is not to say my own BBS made any money, either!) PAT]

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From: T <nospam.kd1s@cox.nospam.net>
Subject: Re: Morton Grove, Illinois (was Party Line Dialing)
Organization: The Ace Tomato and Cement Company
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:01:31 -0500


In article <telecom0.0.10@telecom-digest.org>, reading this group, 

> I think you worked at the Skokie Swift station. 

TELECOM Digest Editor responded, saying:

> About the _MORON_ Grove police department. In 1985 or thereabouts,
> they managed to get a city ordinance passed -- purely city, mind you
>  -- banning the private ownership of any handguns within their
> village. Forget about the Second Amendment and all that rot; that did
> not matter at all to them. They put up a sign on Dempster Street where
> Dempster goes into Moron Grove warning everyone that all were subject
> to search and seizure for handguns; now I do not own any form of gun;
> truth be told, weapons of any sort frighten me a lot; but what scares
> me a lot more is the blaise way the village fathers were doing away 
> with guns, just on the say-so of their police department, and their
> neighbors to the east, Evanston and Skokie who also supported the
> anti-gun initiative. Moron Grove police were very corrupted anyway,
> (as are Skokie and Evanston police) and I just did not get along very
> well at all in that part of the world. PAT] 

Here in RI your right to have a concealed weapon is strictly
controlled by the Attorney General's office. And our current AG
Patrick Lynch while in support of gay marriage, is a stickler when it
comes to not issuing carry permits.


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: What if it is an _unconcealed_ weapon?
Suppose you simply walked down the street with a gun strapped on your
belt, like an oldtime cowboy?  You are not attempting to hide
anything.  PAT]

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From: bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi)
Subject: Re: Virtual Strip Searches Begun at Phoenix Airport
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:14:05 -0000
Organization: Widgets, Inc.


In article <telecom0.0.8@telecom-digest.org>, Sam Spade
<sam@coldmail.com> wrote:


> Terry Tang wrote:

>> "It's 100 percent voluntary, so if the passenger doesn't feel
>> comfortable with it, the passenger doesn't have to go through it," TSA
>> spokesman Nico Melendez said.

> Oh, sure, just go to jail instead.

BZZT!  Thank you for playing.

You have the choice for the machine inspection or a 'pat down' search.

If you don't choose to submit to either, you have the choice of not flying.

There is no risk of jail.


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: But, let's cut to the chase, shall we?
You have the freedom to travel about the United States in a reasonable
and timely way, or your choice is stay at home or go to jail.  PAT]

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From: bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi)
Subject: Re: Telephone Area Codes and Prefixes
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:36:03 -0000
Organization: Widgets, Inc.


In article <telecom0.0.9@telecom-digest.org>, Ron Kritzman
<ron@dbOnayAmspaYmasters.com> wrote:

> BobGoudreau@notchur.biz wrote:

>> The other cool thing about that number is that it is of course the lowest
>> (generally-dialable) phone number in the entire world!

>> Fully qualified, it is +1 201 200 0000....

> In the telephony world 0 is a ten not a null, so wouldn't that be a
> pretty high number?

TELECOM Digest Editor then tried to use his diseased brain-thingy to
respond, with the usual predictable results:

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I think that all depends; if you are
> dial pulsing the number it is a 'ten'.

True for North American phone systems.

There are other, incompatible, phone systems that use different
encodings.  One uses two through eleven pulses for the digits, with
'n+1' pulses for 1-9, and eleven pulses for '0'.  This greatly reduced
false-digit detection from the equivalent of a 'switch-hook flash'.
Another (utterly obsolete, to the best of my knowledge) used inverted
pulse counts -- '0' was one pulse, and '1' was ten.

> if being 'tone dialed' is not known to me. Is it still considered a
> 'ten'. In that case, are the '*' and '#' keys considered eleven and
> twelve when dialed?  PAT]

When tone-dialing,
  first group:   1,2,3,'A'
  second group:  4,5,6,'B'
  third group:   7,8,9,'C'
  fourth group;  *,0,#,'D'

So, '0' could be considered a fourteen, with '*' and '#' being a
thirteen and fifteen.  However, data-processing gear tends to use
index values starting with zero; thus '1' would have an index of zero,
'4' would have an index of four, '7' would have an index of eight, and
'0' would have an index of 13.  With '*' and '#' having index values
of twelve and fourteen.

Basic tone-decoder chips put out 2 bits for which low-tone was
detected, and 2 bits for which high-tone was detected.  There is
little to no point in 'translating' that nybble of data to any sort of
'display' representation (ASCII, EBCDIC, SIXBIT, FIELDDATA, or
'whatever') when it is being used internally by automation for
processing.

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405-744-9000, mstm-osu@okstate.edu, or visit the MSTM web site at
http://www.mstm.okstate.edu

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