DivMod.notes

Saturday, March 26, 2005

TITLE OF PAPER: Divmod
URL OF PRESENTATION: _URL_of_powerpoint_presentation_
PRESENTED BY:
REPRESENTING: _name_of_the_company_they_represent_

CONFERENCE: PyCon 2005
DATE: _date_of_your_conference_here_
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REAL-TIME NOTES / ANNOTATIONS OF THE PAPER:
{If you've contributed, add your name, e-mail & URL at the bottom}

Divmod is an online repository for mail, calendaring, phone, etc. Data is kept
    private, and they give you as many open-standards-based ways (POP, IMAP,
    RSS, Q2Q, ...) as possible to pull data in and out.
For $10/mo ($4.95/mo. during the beta period), you get 1GB storage spreaed across all services. You get 120 minutes of voice long distance. They provide a PIM and web space, blogging, amongst your-friends sharing, ....
Built on Twisted
They use a facet-based categorization system, not a hierarchy.

They implemented something like ye olde Apple Data Detectors to notice certain types of computer-understandable data within emails and such: phone numbers and phrases like "next Thursday" get recognized, e.g.







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NOTES ON / KEY TO THIS TEMPLATE:
A headline (like a field in a database) will be CAPITALISED
    This differentiates from the text that follows
A variable that you can change will be surrounded by _underscores_
    Spaces in variables are also replaced with under_scores
    This allows people to select the whole variable with a simple double-click
A tool-tip is lower case and surrounded by {curly brackets / parentheses}
    These supply helpful contextual information.

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