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.
Nova Spivack on the Semantic Web
July 25th, 2008 — Towatch
The social Web TV: pilot episode with John McCrea, Joseph Smarr, and David Recordon
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…
Joseph Smarr at GoogleIO, June 2008: OpenSocial, OpenID, and OAuth: Oh, My!
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.
EveryBlock: Adrian Holovaty keynote at Where 2.0 2008 conference
June 16th, 2008 — Watched
(via the Everyblock blog). See also this podcast interview by Jon Udell.
Visualisation of code commits to Python project
June 15th, 2008 — Watched
code_swarm - Python from Michael Ogawa on Vimeo (via).
[Dutch] Geografische Datavisualisatie
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 :-).
Jonathan Zittrain - The Future of the Internet (1h lecture)
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
Firefox mobile preview
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).
Social media in plain English: Ice cream metaphor
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)
Steven Pinker at Google on his book “The Stuff of Thought.”
June 11th, 2008 — Towatch
Renowned linguist Steven Pinker speaks at Google’s Mountain View, CA, headquarters about his book “The Stuff of Thought.” This event took place on September 24, 2007, as part of the Authors@Google series. For more information about Steven Pinker, please visit http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/books/stuff/index.html
Recently attended a lecture on Pinker’s first book, The Language Instinct. Food for thought!