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Wednesday, September 17, 2003  CSS | Jay Feinberg | Laszlo | Macromedia Flash | rich media apps   Living depending upon plug-ins Jay Feinberg brings up a good point about interfaces that rely upon plug-ins (whether it be Flash, QuickTime, Real, Dreamfactory or any other whacko web-based technology.)  On one side - you can't really guarentee that everyone has it (Flash has a pretty could chance at being there) - while on the other side, no one likes being dependent upon somebody else. First here's Jay's post.... (my reactions below)...... Marc's blogroll / Laszlo OPML viewer. Marc Canter's blog now features a neat Laszlo (Flash app) blogroll that runs off of OPML files. I looked at it last night at home, where I have Flash installed, and got a good sense of what it does. It's coolio. But, today, at work where I don't have Flash installed, I got what I usually think of as the real, "full experience" (i.e., a big "click here to get the plugin"). I don't want to sound like I am harping on Flash, plugins in general, or advocating a text-only approah to the web, but that text stuff is a real common denominator—in other words, I would like to see some "alt text". When I say "I", I also mean my applications . . :-0 [the iCite net development blog] I spent my first career working to the day when we could extend the base platform or OS - with a cross-platform authoring environment.  But just because that original product has been orphaned by it's mothership (my former company) doesn't mean we can't learn from the lessons of the past. It's really all about the end result experience.  That's why it's such a crime that Flash connotates superfluos, stupid animating buttons and advertising.  Because of it's limited functionality - Flash never created anything interesting or deep. It spits out really shallow stuff.  But if Director could have suceeded like Flash - there'd be a much richer platform to build on top of.  Meanwhile back in reality, the world is still swallowed up on text based, D HTML/CSS at best interfaces - and man oh man - there's allot more than can be done. It's 2003 for Christ Sakes!  I like the CSS stuff I see, but there still is a real limit to the types of interactive interfaces available today on the web.  So if we have to rely upon plug-ins - so be it. Let's just make sure (ar least) that what we do with it - rocks the house. 6:08:33 PM     - Let me hear from you []  Brewster Kahle | Craig Newmark | Mark Pincus | Tim Pozar | Tribe.net   Community wireless LAN for Cole Valley SF This was posted on Craig Blog back on Sept. 9th.  It's from Craig Newmark...... "One way to democratize the Internet is to provide free wireless LAN connectivity for a neighborhood. There're a lot of people doing this across the world, but in SF, folks like Brewster Kahle and Tim Pozar are doing a great job, building up SFLAN. At craigslist, we decided to contribute by buying a transmission system for my neighhorhood, Cole Valley, in San Francisco. If you stand on the SE corner of Cole and Parnassus and look up, you'll see it overhanging Cole Street, just next to the building with the Boulange de Cole. The signal doesn't travel well through walls, but it seems to be working well otherwise. Tech details: it's ssid SFLAN13, just tell your system to use DHCP. Special thanks also to Rebecca Johnson for the installation, and Clif Cox for the configuration.  [Craig Blog] What makes this all kinda cool is that Mark Pincus, of Tribe.net is also from Cole Valley and is also hosting a node of the SFLan. I believe he's directly up the hill from Craig.  So there's all sorts of free Wifi in Cole Valley - all provided for by dot com bucks put to good use. Pincus' Tribe.net is getting more and more attention nowadays, now that Jonathan Abrams has admitted his contempt for his end-users and his sole focus on "dating".  Tribe.net does allot MORE than just mating rituals, though I'm one who's always into beating on his chest and dancing wildly in an attempt to please the girls. BTW Craig's got an RSS channel for his log, though he still doesn't post permalinks to his posts.  I wonder what bloging tool he's using? 4:01:29 PM     - Let me hear from you []  AOL | Dell | Digital downloading | Digital Lifestyle aggregators | Gateway | Napster | Reid Hoffman | Sony   New age of Branding Samsung's new device to include Napster. The electronics maker teams with Roxio to market a digital audio player designed to work with the soon-to-be relaunched Napster 2.0 service. [CNET News.com - The Net] Just as Reid Hoffman admitted last night - that when social networks become a commodity, the brand will be what differentiates the offering, say the Nike network from the Virgin network - so too has the rebirth of Napster given Samsung an opportunity of expanding their brand. Nowdays Dell has taken the name 'computer' out of it's name, AOL T-W is so pissed off - that they're getting rid of AOL and Gateway made more money off of flat plasma displays then they did with PCs last year.  So it makes sense to relaunch a legal download service called Napster and it makes sense for Samsung to bundle it with their MP3 players. I'd like to see Samsung offer a complete, integrated digitial lifestyle product line.  As Sony should have been doing by now.  Of course somebody is gonna need some software to drive all that! 11:10:53 AM     - Let me hear from you []  David Temkin | Laszlo | rich media apps | Sarah Allen   It seems like a few people like it..... Marc Canter is showing off his new Lazslo-produced blogroll. [The Scobleizer Weblog] I don't get excited about Flash often.  Most of the time web developers use it to create things that should be done in HTML or just to create a useless piece of animation. But Laszlo Systems is one of the first (I've noticed) to do a decent job at making Flash work for the user - an extension of the user interface. On Marc Canter's webpage, it's doing wonders with OPML.  Marc promises that it will be integrated into lots of fun and interesting products. And it is darn sexy. Nice Job! [Nick Gaydos > tynk] Quite cool. [Paolo Valdemarin]  Thank you to David Temkin, Sara Allen, Oliver Steele and the rest of the team at Laszlo Systems.  You've made a long-time dream come true. Integrating rich media apps with blogs.  Next comes digital lifestyle aggregation via rich media apps! 10:44:58 AM     - Let me hear from you []  FOAF | Friendster | John Robb | Open Standards | PeopleAggregator | Social networks   Using FOAF to compete JRobb is catching on.  I wonder if he's heard about the PeopleAggregator?  But it's not about competing.  It's about inter-connecting.  By keeping things open, and allowing others to play along - we can establish federated social networks - where all sorts of web services flow back and forth and everyone benefits!  Thanks Matt for thw pointer! Too many social networks spoil something or other.... I am still trying to wrap my head around how to turn FOAF (Friend of a Friend) into a viral tool that can compete with Friendster (Paljunction is another one). Others are thinking about this too. The objective would be to keep the FOAF info open and let mulitple companies compete for the interface. Eventually, however, I suspect that the IM players are going to absorb this functionality and blow away all of the Web interface players, so if we can get the data in an open format, we can get interoperability. [John Robb's Weblog] One way to tell when the market has reached saturation - all the good names are gone.  I mean Paljunction?  Come on... [Curiouser and curiouser!] 10:32:56 AM     - Let me hear from you []  k-collector | Paolo Valdemarin | Semantic Web | wwww   How happy do these guys look? New server in town. We have just received our first Xserve. We'll use this server to host k-collector sites. It will only be here for a couple of days and then leave for its final desitination at the web farm in Milano. So far all I can say is that it's thin, large, heavy and the blicking blue lights are extremely cool. Too bad that nobody will see it for most of its life. [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog] Paolo not only is one of my best friends, but he also hosts this humble blog.  I can't wait for the release of k-collector and WWWW and to get some kickass performance behind this cutting edge app and service! 10:26:25 AM     - Let me hear from you []  Digital Lifestyle aggregators | Home Networking   Time for Home LANs Intel Pushes 'Digital Home'. Intel Developer Forum Keynote: Intel VP Louis Burns waxes on the digital home, a new PC form factor, a new Pentium 4 for performance enthusiasts and PCI Express. [eWEEK Technology News] The marketign engine has started to churn.  It's X-Mas time coming up.  Yet where's the coolio software to run these Home LANs? 10:13:20 AM     - Let me hear from you []  Ecademy | FOAF   Ecademy is a good thing Ecademy 19 inbound blogs, 24 inbound links (Last updated 7 hours 57 minutes ago) . Ecademy 19 inbound blogs, 24 inbound links (Last updated 7 hours 57 minutes ago) ... According to Marc's Voice Ecademy is a Social network for "British Intellectuals". Uh-huh. I'm not sure whether to take that as a compliment or some deeply ironic and sarcastic sneer. Since Americans don't usually do irony, I guess it's a compliment! ... (Link created 8 hours 39 minutes ago)(Cosmos) [Technorati Link Cosmos for Marc's Voice] My Technorati Cosmos report tells me that someone at Ecademy made this statement today - but yet, the permalink doesn't flow through for me to find the exact post!  I was originally gonna answer by saying: "I'm an American heavily into irony, sarcasm and humor - so YES you Brits are intellectuals (which is a good thing) as we Amerikans are under-educated, stupid, ignorant, rude, rabble rousing bigoted, single languaged bolts." But now that I've run into this Ecademy connundrum - which is only PART of the confusing Ecademy experince - let me answer by saying "where's the f*cking permalinks?" :-) At least they support FOAF (the first social network to do so - I believe :-) 10:11:23 AM     - Let me hear from you []  Cynthia Typaldos | danah boyd | Friendster | Jonathan Abrams | LinkedIn | Reid Hoffman | Ross Mayfield | Social networks   VLab social networking scene Last night there was a packed house of Silicon Valley insiders at Stanford's Biz School - all there to hear Reid Hoffman, Andrew Anker, Ross Mayfield, Jonathan Abrams and Cynthia Typaldos talk about social networking.  Besides the dutiful photos, your humble amatuer reporter (that's me) got to ask some questions of Reid and in general - make the scene. And what a scene it was. The VCs were out in force, which of course then caused moderator Tony Perkins to go on and on about how this was the next bubble and to speculate who was signing deals.  Perkins even started a rumor that Friendster had closed a $10M round with Kleiner, Perkins and Benchmark.  This (of course) then caused Abrams to act non-chalant and coy - and gave him an excuse to dodge every question asked of him. Basically summed up - Friendster is a dating company, not a social networking company. Abrams claims social networking is just an enabling technology.  I didn't have the heart to tell him that, in fact, social networking was an amalgam of technology and people interacting together - but I knew this would go "over his head".  [NOTE:  Jonathan doesn't come off as an intellectual type at all. He sees money in dating and he wants it - that's about the gist of his presentations.] Ross was his usual eloquent self and Reid rapped out the LinkedIn story and admitted that SOME form of inter-change and connection between his "walled garden" and others - was inevitable (that was what I was looking for :-)  Anker was pessimistic (that's the job of the token VC - especially when he's in front of all these OTHER VCs) and Typaldos represented the humans very well ("we're not going to committ to ANY system that locks us in!")  The Software Product Marketing group she's helped create - is a typical example of what else to do with social networking - besides mating. A rematch happens on Sunday at Sylvia Paul's CyberSalon in Berkley. But this time - danah boyd gets to ask Abrams questions like "why do you matter when you're so full of yourself?" (or something like that.......)  Abrams never did answer the theme of the night, which was "what is the busienss model?"  He just kept saying "this is not the approrpiate venue" (which sounds like John Doerr told him what to say.....) And that's just the beginning of how things are gonna change for Jonathan if he's taken KP money :-)  Trust me - I've been there.   John Hummer (of Hummer, Winblad) and James Hong (or HotorNot.com) = #1, Noah Glass (audblog), Typaldos, Brad DeGraf (Venture Collective) Dale McGrew and Sarah Golightly (GoLightly) = #2   Me and Noah Glass (he used to be a roomate of mine) = #3 Noah and danah boyd (legendary social software researcher, fellow Tribester and showing off her new hair color - she's speaking on Sunday BTW!) = #4   Mark Graham (iVillage) and Ramu Yalamanchi (Sona) = #5 Akash Garg and Ramu (Sona) and Tyler Ziemann and Dalton Caldwell (Affinity Engines) = #6 UPDATE: Ross has his own report, as does Stewart Butterfield. And CBS MarketWatch too! And now CNet. 9:48:19 AM     - Let me hear from you []