Friday, April 09, 2004
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Coffee House
This coffee house is, incidentally, also the home to an upcoming “Social Wave” meeting. “Social Wave”, according to its principals, is “a community network for people in an near Campbell”, “building community online and in person”. Welcome to the new bubble, where something the members of the WELL have been doing for the past two decades, almost, becomes new and exciting. [a preponderance of evidence]
Coolio - I wonder is Jonas has ever tried out the WebOutliner?
It can output outlines to any MetaWeblog or BloggerAPI blog tool. And send out SMTP as well. Of course - it's all OPML.
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We are at the beginning of a Golden Age of journalism — but it is not journalism as we have known it. Media futurists have predicted that by 2021, "citizens will produce 50 percent of the news peer-to-peer." However, mainstream news media have yet to meaningfully adopt or experiment with these new forms."
"This report details the important considerations when exploring a collaborative effort between audience and traditional media organizations."
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Where facts are few and experts are many.
New Features: Friends & Addressbook
Blogware users got a small preview of version 1.0 this week with the release of our new Address Book and Friends functionality.
The Address Book is a pretty cool mechanism that provides Blogware Publishers with some pretty nifty tools for managing the relationships between users and content.
The other new function, Friends, is a simple tool that allows users to connect with one another and will act as the basis for a bunch of cool new services as we move forward.
Play around with them and let me know what you think (keeping in mind that this is "pre-release preview beta not-finished yet" stuff....) [Random Bytes]
I got to be friend #1. Ah the joys of being an 'outside friend'. One more win for the FOAFnet.
Used BitTorrent a little bit when it first came out and was a bit underwhelmed. It didn’t work, there weren’t a lot of places to find files, etc.
I decided to take another look at it when a designer friend of mine was telling me that he has the latest version of every single piece of design software on his Mac compliments of bit torrent (yes, I know it’s wrong… not the point I’m trying to make, the point is coming :-).
Part I: I installed bit torrent and immediately noticed an amazing new trend (prob. not new to all of you) of people posting dozens of albums in one RAR file for download. Huge file sizes in the 500 to 4,000 meg size range. The last season of seven seasons of Southpark, every Nirvanna album and here is another file with every Howard Stern radio show from March in one file.
In one click you grab one really well organized, clean and deep sets of files—scary.
Part II: A couple of month ago I got the Gateway Connected DVD player. For $195 it connects via WiFi to my desktop and I can hit the My Music or My Videos button on the remote control and pull up those directories on my hard drive (in the other room).
Part III: Today I moved into my new apartment in Santa Monica and was faced with the standard $100 month cable/dish bill and I’m thinking “dang, I only watch less then a half dozen TV shows and they are all here on bit torrent… maybe I should save the $1,200 a year and just download the shows and watch them via my Gateway Connected DVD player?”
The Point/Question: How soon before you’ll be able-with one click-download every prime-time TV show or last year’s top 500 CDs in one click?!
(Note: This is not a trick question, I have yet to find a file containing that much content—however, I did find a file with last weeks top 100 singles that someone put together in one nice package).
[The Digital Music Weblog]What won't we do with it? [Tribe.net: FOAF]
In answer to Tom's question "what won't we do with FOAF" I can say that FOAF does not include authentication, security or privacy controls. It is up to each vendor, developer and system to provide those features.
FOAF is simply an object wrapper around whatever profile data you wish to store. Any kind of unique identifier can be inside a FOAF file. FOAF is just a stnadard way of FINDING profile data, which is then addressed and pointed to - in a standard way. That's it.
Free music that streams to your media player
Posted Apr 9, 2004, 7:46 AM ET by Alberto Escarlate
From Wired News: Webjay, is a website in which users build their own playlists of free music — like a mix tape — and share them with friends. It doesn’t store the files, but it pulls together the URLs for each track and puts them in a playlist format.
Webjay regular Brett Singer, a New York theater producer and computer consultant, builds playlists in his spare time. He’s created more than 50 collections with titles like Song-a-Day, a list made up of songs he has chosen each day for the past two months. On March 28, he had a seaweed treatment, so he chose a song by the group Seaweed Soup. He picked a song called “Party Party” on the occasion of his kid’s birthday party.
There isn’t only music playlists. You can find Lawrence Lessig’s “Free Culture” read aloud by miscellaneous people: Lessig/Free Culture audiobook project.[The Digital Music Weblog]
Congrats to Lucas Gonze. The meme spreads.
Question: Is moblogging a new market? [Scripting News]
I just responded to this article with this comment:
When the term 'market' is used, the researchers gear up, talk about demographics and the VCs start funding companies. I think we're all old enough now to realize that with each turn of the technology crank, we not only get smarter, but we also increase our bag of tricks - to create compelling end-user experiences.
Afterall - that's all that matters.
Me - I'll never be able to thumb in a message, but taking a photograph - is my cup of tea. Or shall I say "put that in your bowl and smoke it."
Eugene Kim ias at it again. About once a year (it seems like it's always in May) Eugene Kim puts out another white paper. This year it's on "A Manifesto for Collaborative Tools". Looks pretty good.
Reminds me of my own rants on "the New Kinds of Tools." Hasn't anybody told Eugene that you're NOT supposed to use the evil T word. Doesn't Eugene know that nobody will fund tools? Ask any VC.
Besides that - I see the joyous hands of one Danny Ayers all over this white paper. Once somebody starts talking about graphs, rdf and the semantic web - you Danny is around someplace.
And speaking of esoteric research - I'm still getting good vibes from that Microsoft Social Computing thingie from last week. Needless to say, I'm still waiting to get invited into Wallop. But I did get to see Robert Scoble and Lenn Pryor sneak me Channel 9.
But back to Eugene and Blue Oxen. There's nothing he's saying that I don't agree with. I just wish he'd get more specific. Screen shots, Mockups, Design guidelines, Wireframes. APIs. Schemas. We need more Schemas!
I wonder if Blue Oxen is still getting money from Pierre whats-his-name. Maybe one day he'll discover what we're up to.
Somebody better.
Andy Gadiel was kind enough to let me know of a new version of Jambase. The world is getting to be a prettier place.
Can you imagine a world where we were no longer dictated by dial-up mentality aned aesthetics?
Man - I can't wait!
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