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• Rendezvous
  2003-07-15 10:09:28  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  I took Hydra based notes throughout the conference, but frankly I only saw three or five others at any given time doing the same. Now there were a huge number of folks attached to iChat, and I saw a decent number connecting up to either weblogs in realtime, IRC, or some other recording mechanism that I was reasonable sure wasn't Hydra.

• Rendezvous
  2003-07-14 20:40:33  Tim O'Reilly | [View]
  
  
  Actually, there wasn't much use of hydra at OScon. Nothing like we saw at ETcon. In fact, a number of people seemed to start up Hydra documents, and then give them up because no one joined in.
  
  Of course, I checked in very sporadically, since I was in the middle of a lot of things, and didn't have much time to look at what was happening in the surrounding ether.
• Rendezvous
  2003-07-14 21:24:33  stevegillmor [View]
  
  
  Judging by the lack of posted results, you may be right. But my sense of the experimentation around Hydra and iChat AV in WiFi conference settings is that the explosive adoption is taxing the network. It would be useful to know what is causing the outage more from an allocation perspective.
• Rendezvous
  2003-07-17 20:54:46  ziggy-at-panix [View]
  
  
  Actually Hydra and iChat weren't that heavily used at OSCon. Lots of people wanted to try them out in a conference setting, but I wouldn't call the use of either "explosive" or even "widespread".
  
  Sure, there was a huge Mac OS X presence, but many people didn't want to run iChat (even after being prodded), and a lot of people were frustrated with the networking situation.
  
  Plus, iChat was acting funny. On many occasions, I could see about 7 people logged in via Rendezvous, but the person sitting next to me could see dozens. I couldn't send messages to him, but he could send messages to me that I could respond to.