Radio UserLand

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Radio UserLand
Userland Software, Inc.
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What is it?
Full web application development and R.T.E.

• Web Server
• Content Manager
• Programming Platform
• Application package
• Publishing and routing tool

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It all starts with a Name RADIO

• Underlying ideal based on peer-to-peer computing
  typically characterized by music sharing.
• Oversimplifying drastically, Radio UserLand is
  an abstracted version of Napster Dave Winer,
  Radio UserLand lead developer.

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Web Server

• Power comparable to IIS, Apache
• Distribution capacities once only found in
  service providers like Yahoo
• Decentralized
• Desktop Mac/PC

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Web Server cont.

• Security
• Performance
• Local store of your information
• Control

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Content Manager

• Information Organization
• Peer to peer
• Both online/offline maintenance
• live outlining
• Support email and chat
• Controlled access

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Music Playlist
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Programming Platform

• Integrated Outliner
• HTML/XML programming environment
• Allows simplified distributed application
  development
• Scripting environment
• UserTalk Language

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Application Package/Tools

• Object Database
• UserTalk Language
• DocServer
• Multi-Threaded RTE
• XML-RPC client and server
• SOAP client and server
• HTTP server

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Application Package/Tools, cont.

• Weblog publishing, Manilla
• Automatic Information Streaming based on RSS

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Screen Shot
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Personal Experience

• Relatively simple to initiate
• Seems to be good user community support
• Will take some time to utilize all features.

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Final Thoughts

• Complete end-user application environment for
  online content building
• Still evolving
• Strongly based on Standards
• Breaks the centralized model
• Development in collaboration with Industry
  leaders IBM, Microsoft, Intel, Lotus.

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Refs.

• Userland Home http//radio.userland.com/
• A closer look at Minila and Radio UserLand
  http//www.dominopower.com/issues/issue200011/mani
  la002.html