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The social Web TV: pilot episode with John McCrea, Joseph Smarr, and David Recordon

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…

EveryBlock: Adrian Holovaty keynote at Where 2.0 2008 conference

(via the Everyblock blog). See also this podcast interview by Jon Udell.

Visualisation of code commits to Python project


code_swarm - Python from Michael Ogawa on Vimeo (via).

[Dutch] Geografische Datavisualisatie


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 :-).

Jonathan Zittrain - The Future of the Internet (1h lecture)

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

Firefox mobile preview


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).

Social media in plain English: Ice cream metaphor


Social Media in Plain English from leelefever on Vimeo.

Not sure how far you can go with the metaphor, but original nevertheless… (via)

Clay Shirky on society, being changed by the web

Yet another interview on “Here comes everybody”. I like his expressive grimaces in this interview though :-). Interesting points on separate identities and privacy.

(Elektrischer reporter)

[German] Society for the history of computing machines

In a basement in Munich, a handful of afficionados takes care of computers of the past 5 decades. (Elektrischer Reporter)

(French-language) Screencast on SMOB, open source, cross-service microblogging client and aggregator in php


W3F - smob from Nicolas Cynober on Vimeo.

Have been following the Alexandre Passant’s blog for a while, didn’t have time to test SMOB. The screencast is by Nicolas Cynober, he suggests these links (French-language as well) for further reading: