{"id":291,"date":"2009-01-14T11:51:34","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T18:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/?p=291"},"modified":"2021-06-12T03:35:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T03:35:48","slug":"im-telnet-for-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/2009\/01\/14\/im-telnet-for-the-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Telnet 2.0 &#8212; For the People!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline_image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-images\/inline\/ims.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Using IM (instant messaging) to\u00a0access application isn&#8217;t exactly new anymore.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/new.imified.com\/\">Imified<\/a> is a good a example.\u00a0 But really, only geeks develop this, only geeks use this, and only geeks get excited by this.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Remotely controlling applications by sending text messages through IM is essentially just a new protocol for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Telnet\">telnet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What is interesting is how this very old technology with a new face is slowly percolating from the geek world into the consumer world.\u00a0 For instance,\u00a0with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kwiry.com\/learn\/new\/#shortcuts\">Kwiry<\/a>\u00a0you send a quick message to control your Tivo.\u00a0 Or, let&#8217;s say you\u00a0remember\u00a0a movie you want to see, by reading about it in a paper, seeing a billboard or even eavesdropping on a conversation, just text the name to your Netflix account and it will be on its way to your house.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s\u00a0so great\u00a0about this?\u00a0 Couldn&#8217;t I\u00a0just navigate to\u00a0to the mobile\u00a0version of Netflix\u00a0to queue up that movie?\u00a0 Well, what&#8217;s great is\u00a01) so many people are already texting each other,\u00a0texting is already a common behaviour while surfing the web on a tiny screen likely never will be,\u00a0and 2) there is no navigating, no wasting time clicking\u00a0on this or\u00a0that widget to find the functionality you need &#8212; just text a name or a couple words &#8212; the end.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to telnet 2.0 (please note a bit of sarcasm here).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using IM (instant messaging) to\u00a0access application isn&#8217;t exactly new anymore.\u00a0 Imified is a good a example.\u00a0 But really, only geeks develop this, only geeks use this, and only geeks get excited by this.\u00a0 Remotely controlling applications by sending text messages through IM is essentially just a new protocol for telnet. What is interesting is how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/parCYG-4H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scoobr.com\/niblettes_old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}