Another blitzily designed video on social media, actually a viral to promote the book and other socialnomicsTM -branded activities (notice the TradeMark?).
Socialnomics – social media revolution
August 18th, 2009 — Watched
Introduction to the Google (Adwords) Ad Auction by Hal Varian
July 5th, 2009 — Watched
At 3’50’’:
“A high quality landing page should have relevant, original content, be easily navigable with quick load times and minimum pop-ups and pop-unders and be transparent about the nature of your business, how it interacts with the visitor’s computer, and how you intend to use the visitor’s personal information.”
Interesting. Wondering just how they quantify that transparency. Is it an on-off switch i.e. do they just check the availability of a privacy/terms of use page?
Michael Wesch’s lecture on Youtube at the Library of Congress
June 29th, 2009 — Watched
Published last year, but I never came around watching it then. Youtube biz blog and Google Operating System brought it back to my attention.
Layar, generic augmented reality browser
June 19th, 2009 — Watched
Possibilities are mindboggling. This (type of) interface can become as widespread as Google Maps.
Excerpt from Twitter Conversation (in Dutch, reverse chronological order):
davied: @Ramon1974 @pascalvanhecke Leuk idee, Open Overheid en Augmented Reality. Eens wat ideeen verzamelen en in blog zetten?
Ramon1974: @pascalvanhecke Dat weet @ClaireBoo vast wel. Succes #layar hangt af van makkelijk te koppelen gegevens zoals bij Google Maps denk ik
Rhymo: @pascalvanhecke we zijn aan het kijken naar kml, georss, etc
pascalvanhecke: @Ramon1974 idd – kan publicatieplatform worden. Vraag me af een een "gewone" kml file (zoals op Google maps), al kan dienen als #Layar
ClaireBoo: @Ramon1974 @pascalvanhecke elke set coordinaat-gegevens kan worden ontsloten op Layar. Dus overheidsinfo zeker interessant! Laat maar weten.
bertheymans: @pascalvanhecke I’m really wondering what’s needed for this kind of thing to catch mainstream http://layar.eu
Ramon1974: @pascalvanhecke Layar nodigt uit om ook #openoverheid data toe te voegen. We moeten eens iets verzinnen voor www.datzouhandigzijn.nl
pascalvanhecke: Impressed by http://layar.eu generic "augmented reality browser" Already available: immo data (Funda), ATMs, jobs, places to go out…
Jetpack demo
June 10th, 2009 — Watched
Aza Raskin demonstrates the faster and more userfriendly way of developing Firefox extensions, released last month.
New Google Search options
May 13th, 2009 — Watched
New Google search options are impressive. Only available on the English Google.com though. More here.
Bart Decrem: Being A European Entrepreneur in Silicon Valley – The Veteran Perspective
April 13th, 2009 — Watched
Being A European Entrepreneur in Silicon Valley – The Veteran Perspective
Extremely interesting presentation from a fellow Belgian living in Silicon Valley on last month’s Plugg conference in Brussels.
[Dutch] Social Media in minuten
April 13th, 2009 — Dutch, Watched
Een checklist om te evalueren of en hoe social media kan ingezet worden in een organisatie. Via, via.
Taskfox
April 11th, 2009 — Watched
Violet MIR:ROR and TouchaTag promovideos
March 24th, 2009 — Watched
Few of the examples are actually convincing and some are a bit ludicrous, yet you can imagine people build be really useful applications – especially for disabled, eldery people or kids for whom the interfaces whe have now are too complicated… Oh, and to be fair, here’s a similar (somewhat less appealing though) video for Tikitag – now known as Touchatag: