Stuff I’ve watched or that’s still to watch…
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.
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 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
June 13th, 2008 — Watched
Firefox Mobile Concept Video from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
The amazingly talented Aza Raskin demoes what Firefox mobile could be. One-touch, so less sophisticated than the Iphone browser - harder choices to make interface-wise (via).
June 12th, 2008 — Watched
Social Media in Plain English from leelefever on Vimeo.
Not sure how far you can go with the metaphor, but original nevertheless… (via)
June 9th, 2008 — Watched
Yet another interview on “Here comes everybody”. I like his expressive grimaces in this interview though :-). Interesting points on separate identities and privacy.
