Dan Ellis

[...] possibilities would open up. Most importantly, it would allow for a radically different kind of user agent that would be able to present information in a much clearer way. It would also allow other [...]

[...] One of the giveaways at this year's Google I/O conference was the newly announced Nexus Q streaming media player. I was particularly looking forward to tinkering with this device, because [...]

[...] a rich diversity of new features. More recent talkers such as Amnuts and PG+ are derived from talker code written in 1992. In software development terms, this is a long time. To put it into historical [...]

[...] . While it is often claimed that they are TELNET servers, in fact most do not adhere to the TELNET protocol, and TELNET clients are just used in their capacity as terminal emulators. Both talker [...]

[...] protocol, and TELNET clients are just used in their capacity as terminal emulators. Both talker clients and talker servers have limited terminal functionality, and because of this they are limited [...]

[...] , and are likely to introduce bugs that, if exploited, may crash the entire talker process. A talker protocol would allow for software agents acting as gateways been web servers and mail servers [...]

[...] . Futhermore, the look and feel of the user interface is defined in the code of a talker server. When establishing a new talker, a sysop first chooses a talker base code to start from. [...]