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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>We’re just released our software to the general public
on <a href="http://www.conferencexp.net/">www.ConferenceXP.Net</a>. See
the website for additional details.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>For those who tried the prerelease, I have an embarrassing bug
to admit to. We moved to a new UI for the pre-release and in a bit of
oversight the TTL was left at 2, so the cross Internet2 experience wasn’t
exactly stellar. That has been fixed for this release.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Over the next few weeks, we’ll start publishing the
APIs that we used to create this solution. In addition to the Venue
Server web service APIs we’ve discussed on this list in the past, we
have:</span></font></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>RTP API, allowing new classes of multicast
collaborative applications to be developed, such as our Distributed
PowerPoint with shared Tablet PC Ink (PPT with ink to be released in ~1
month)</span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Managed DirectShow wrappers, allowing you to get access
to our full multimedia APIs from our .NET programming environment</span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Conference API, allowing generation of new UIs. I’m
particularly excited about this because I can now generate entirely new UIs
around specific scenarios in about three hours by combining this managed
API with .NET tools. For instance, I integrated Conferencing with
Instant Messaging for our announcement demo in a Sunday afternoon.</span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Edge SDK, allowing different web services to be
combined into the side bar interface. For instance, we already
combine buddy lists with conferencing in this UI. You can create new
parts such as “Ask a TA a Question” or “Documents on a
web portal”.</span></font></li>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Source code will be available in two weeks under a research
and educational use license, after additional cleanup and documentation.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> - jcb</span></font></p>
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