joRiSS Player

[Adam Curry <adam@curry.com>]

joRiSS - Broadband Receiver
	
Friday Joris released the latest test versions of the <a 
href="http://joriss.jamby.net/2001/07/27";>joRiSS Player</a>. A BroadBand 
multimedia receiver. It's available for Windows and Macintosh (classic 
under OS X) and is based on Director technology. It has a simple guide 
and can view any "RSS" channel (which you can add to your guide). 
Included are several channels, including the Movie Trailer channel. Its 
simple and elegant; you subscribe to one or more channels, set a time 
when you want your BAMF (Big Ass Media Files) downloaded, like when 
you're sleeping, and joRiSS does the rest.
	
Geek info: Currently we are pulling in channel information from two Xml 
Storage Systems, www.ourfavoritesongs.com and datashed.net. Next steps 
are to fully integrate the player with the 'cloud' with xml-rpc calls. 
This is how we will build the guide in the future, as well as handle 
subscriptions and change requests. So work still to be done, but this is 
lookin' good!

AC