August 27th, 2008 — Watched
Ubiquity adds intelligence to your browser… It is a Firefox plugin that interprets natural language, maps your commands to a webservice, serves your arguments to that webservice and inserts the results for you in your editing interface.
It runs a kind of macros, user-contributed snippets of javascript. It makes me think of the CoScripter project at IBM - see writeup by Jon Udell.
Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
August 27th, 2008 — Watched
Presentation by David Recordon on the Open Web Foundation, established July 24th.
July 25th, 2008 — Towatch
Really long (almost 2 hours) presentation - but given my current job, this is a must-see :-0
Recorded at the 8th www.ToorCon.org Information Security Conference, Sept 30th and Aug 1st, 2006 in San Diego, California. Content produced by www.MediaArchives.com — PRIVACY IS DEAD – GET OVER IT, with Steven Rambam. This talk will include numerous examples of actual data and investigative online resources and databases, and will include an in-depth demonstration of an actual online investigation done on a volunteer subject. (The subject is Rick Dakan, a noted author, who will be present.) (From CNN: “…Rambam was scheduled to discuss how he dug up — in just over four hours of searching private and public databases — more than 500 pages worth of data on Rick Dakan, who was attending the conference and had agreed to participate in the project. “All I had given him was my e-mail and name,” Dakan said. “He knew everywhere I’d lived, every car I had driven, and even someone else in Alabama who was using my Social Security number since 1983.Emphasis will be placed on discussing the “digital footprints” that we all leave in our daily lives, and how it is now possible for an investigator (or government Agent) to determine a person’s likes and dislikes, religion, political beliefs, sexual orientation, habits, hobbies, friends, family, finances, health and even the person’s actual physical whereabouts at any given moment, solely by the use of online data and related activity
July 25th, 2008 — Towatch
I had followed the live stream of The Next Web back in April with half an ear - this one stood out as by far the most interesting.
Nova Spivack at The Next Web Conference 2008 from Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Vimeo.
June 21st, 2008 — Watched
Social Web TV, aimed to be a weekly show on new developments in “the social web”:
With a revolving cast of characters, we’ll have some of the key technologists working on building the Social Web to explain what is going on; but this isn’t a show about technology. It’s about explaining what’s going on in the fight to make sure you have control of your data, your content, and your privacy — and the freedom to access your stuff from all over the Web.
While I like the initiative, I still think the same as with all people jumping on the video bandwagon: why not make it an audio podcast? Probably easier to produce, and easier to consume… We do have too little time to watch all the interesting video content out there, while we still have time to squeeze in some more interesting listening material while in the car or in the gym…
So for now I’m still hooked to the Dataportability in motion podcast - the dataportability guys have a slightly different strategy, but they cover the same as this Social Web vodcast…
June 19th, 2008 — Towatch
A number of emerging technologies will soon collectively enable an open social web in which users control their information and it can flow between multiple sites and services. OpenID, OAuth, microformats, OpenSocial, the Social Graph API, friends-list portability, and more will be discussed, as well as a coherent vision for how the pieces fit together and how developers can start taking advantage of them now.
June 16th, 2008 — Watched
(via the Everyblock blog). See also this podcast interview by Jon Udell.
June 15th, 2008 — Watched
code_swarm - Python from Michael Ogawa on Vimeo (via).
June 15th, 2008 — Watched
Geografische Datavisualisatie from Alper Çugun on Vimeo.
Background and links for the workshop (en). Time travel visualisation is a very geeky thing to to, see this presentation by XKCD-author Randall Munroe, starting from minute 4 :-).
June 14th, 2008 — Watched
Professor Jonathan Zittrain of the Oxford Internet Institute previews his book “The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It” at the Tribeca Grand in NYC on April 11 2008.
More info, including downloads of the book and this video: http://www.isoc-ny.org/?p=195
