So what in the heck will NowStream.com be doing?

Back in the good old days, April of 2003 to be exact, we started a company called NowStream.com. The idea was simple: broadcast live video and audio of events from anywhere in the world straight to your desktop. We were all pretty excited about it, everyone we talked to was pretty excited about it, most everyone who used the site was excited about it. Things should have gone smashingly. Well, things did get smashed.

We did just about everything wrong when it comes to a startup company. We didn't release early and often. We had very poor management (me). Guy pretty much sums it up. We did everything on that list wrong. And I take full credit for all of it.

That which doesn't kill us only makes us stronger. We survived the failing of NowStream.com with a lot of useful code and ideas which we've since rolled into other products. One of those ideas/pieces of code that survived is called CoffeeTalk. Based on OPML and inspired by the Instant Outlining feature of Dave's OPML Editor (It's in Radio Userland too!), CoffeeTalk is a (buzzword warning) scalable, reliable, and flexible framework for simplifying the development of network applications.

NowStream.com will be using CoffeeTalk to build exciting network applications. That sounds so 90's doesn't it? Everyone is developing network applications. They just call them Web Applications. We'll be doing Web Applications, but the real power comes from the applications that run on the network behind the scenes. Google has taught us all that.

We have a handful of ideas already, but the first step is to polish up CoffeeTalk (or grind CoffeeTalk if I may) and make sure we have a solid foundation to build our company anew before we start dumping money into it. We're looking at some colloboration software, some system monitoring software, and of course, the ever-elusive artificially intelligent software. Might take us a while on that last one tho ;-)

So that's that. Have any questions? Drop me a line at 702-810-1337, or email me at nowstream@gmail.com


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