Simeda’s CTO Razvan Dragomirescu showed me an interesting bit of software they’re working on for PocketPC called ‘Pocket Rendezvous,’ a port of the Rendezvous easy networking system (commonly used by OSX applications, although it works just fine on PC, too). Using Pocket Rendezvous, users can set up a personal, auto-discoverable web servers for a variety of purposes, such as matchmaking services (think broadcasted business cards or personal ads), private music streaming (be the mysterious F train DJ!), or anything else a crafty developer can build on top of the Rendezvous setup (iTunes, for instance, uses Rendezvous to do the quick-sharing of music libraries). The software isn’t released yet, though, and Razvan is looking for a few beta testers to give Pocket Rendezvous a swing before they officially launch the product in June. If you were to email, say razvan.dragomirescu then add one of those squiggly ear looking symbols to simeda.com, you could probably email him and he’d give you the details.
