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Is A Picture Worth 1,024 Words?
Is A Picture Worth 1,024 Words?
04/19/2005 11:07 AMOne of the things we're always interested here at Techdirt are new
ways to use technology -- specifically when it comes to the sharing
and exchange of information. While there's been a lot of
atten
tion paid to the online photo space over the past few months, most
have just been focused on the recreating a photo album for aesthetic
purposes, rather than real information sharing. That's why it's been
interesting to play around with
Spogger, a new service (and
company), launching today, that is much more focused on information
sharing through photographs (mainly cameraphones). The idea being
that you can often convey a lot of information in a simple photograph,
and with the ease of snapping a cameraphone photo and sending it to a
site, it's possible to provide near real-time info on just about
anything -- from items for sale, to traffic conditions, to the daily
lunch specials at the deli down the street. The other thing that is
interesting about the service is that, while it does jump on that
tagging bandwagon, it also steps away from it with a classification
system that lets people propose and vote on the proper classification
for images. The problem that's clearly going to come to "tagging," is
spam. Tagging, in many ways, is just a slight update on keywords --
which within the search engine world quickly fell victim to spam.
However, in putting together a proposal and classification system, it
allows for the community to properly organize things as a group -- and
keep out the spam. This also isn't a new idea -- but seems to have
been lost in the recent fascination with completely open tagging. In
this particular case, with Spogger, the risk with the classification
system is that different people could feel that the images/information
should be classified in different ways (it's all relative, you
see...), but with the combination of voting classifications and tags
perhaps a happy middle ground is reached. Still, what remains to be
seen is how seriously people use imagery for information sharing.
Snapshots, historically, are more about aesthetics than pure
information sharing -- and while the rise of cameraphones (which both
make it easy to take photos anywhere
and to share them) makes
it easier to use photos for information gathering and sharing, it is
still a mental and behavioral change, that not everyone will be
willing to make. However, as the
lines
between the digital and analog worlds merge, we're going to be
seeing more innovative uses of technology for gathering and sharing
information.
A picture is no longer worth a thousand
words
A picture is no longer worth a thousand
words
04/22/2004 01:02 AMSalon Apr 22 2004 5:22AM GMT
Picture in Picture iMovie Plugin Pack
3.0
Picture in Picture iMovie Plugin Pack
3.0
04/26/2004 05:35 PMiMovie plugin pack featuring Distort Effects and Morph Transitions.
If a job's worth doing, it's worth
overdoing.
If a job's worth doing, it's worth
overdoing.
04/15/2005 11:58 AM
For
Sale: Wothahellizat? It's definitely not
built for
speed, but this
weird off-road
truck is truly a
labor of love.
XML for the rest of us
XML for the rest of us
12/22/2003 12:34 PM
"The relational database is designed to serve up rows and columns,"
said BEA's Adam Bosworth in his keynote talk. "But our model of the
world is documents. It's 'Tell me everything I want to know about this
person or this clinical trial.' And those things are not flat, they're
complex. Now we have the way to get not only the hospital records and
prescriptions but also the doctor's write-ups."
The doctors and bankers will get that, just as the highway patrolmen
already do. XML documents, flowing through XML plumbing, can now
deliver very real and tangible benefits. For the publishing geeks who
started it all, it's a moment to savor. [Full story at
InfoWorld.com]
By the way, Adam Bosworth said a great many other interesting things
in his XML 2003 talk. For those of you not inclined to
watch
this QuickTime clip -- and in particular for the search crawlers
-- I would like to enter the following quote into the public record.
...you need your rest i can't say what's
best
you need your rest i can't say what's
best
03/19/2005 02:45 AMI taped a bunch of segments for an awesome VH-1 show today. I won't
name it, because I don't know...
rest of it
rest of it
12/26/2004 06:49 PMsoieasy.com/modules.php?set_albumName=Tsunami&op=modload&name=Pictu
res&file=index&include=view_album.php
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The rest is noise
The rest is noise
07/05/2004 10:45 PM
The Rest is Noise :
New Yorker music critic Alex Ross' blog.
Also:
A C
Douglas.
Jessica Duchen.
Greg Sandow.
Michael Brooke.
The Rambler.
Gaming for the rest of us
Gaming for the rest of us
12/19/2004 03:46 PMWhat happens when a good developer goes bad and closes up shop?
Game.Ars has a look at what supposedly happened to an insider at
Interplay.
After several months, money arrived via a bank-to-bank
transfer, i.e. direct deposit, but it was far less than my normal
paycheck. I tried to reach somebody, anybody to explain this. Calls
and emails to executives went unanswered.
Unfortunately, that happens all too often.
In addition, Game.Ars looks at the phenomenon of banned games
— blood and gore is ok, but uncovered female breasts are not. And
of course, there's all the week's gaming news. Read on.
Rest Awhile
Rest Awhile
02/01/2005 10:07 PMYeah, the rumors are true. After three years of this site, I've
decided to give it a rest. Being pigeonholed...
IPass for the Rest of Us
IPass for the Rest of Us
12/23/2003 02:18 PMWhile iPass is a great option for heavy travelers whose companies have
deals with iPass, individual travelers must look elsewhere for a Wi-Fi
subscription that includes many hotspots: Global Broadband Internet
Access members may offer a good option. Hotspot operators around the
world are part of the group and as such offer roaming onto their
networks. Most of the operators are in Europe, including The Cloud in
the U.K. and a handful of operators in the Netherlands, but Surf and
Sip is also part of the group. Currently there are 1,900 hotspots in
the network but that number should grow to 2,500 by the end of
January....
The Rest, As They Said, Was History
The Rest, As They Said, Was History
09/15/2004 09:47 PMA Microsoft manager has recounted what he has told his MSN Music
developers. "Apple set the bar very high. We're trying to match that.
We told our developers, '
Look at how Apple does it.'"
Now, when did we hear
this before? (Hint: Apple sued because someone copied too closely.)
Robots and the Rest of Us
Robots and the Rest of Us
05/13/2004 04:57 AMWhat do you do about fear and loathing on the human-machine frontier?
Convene a meeting of robot ethicists, of course. By Bruce Sterling
from Wired magazine.
Ask MacSlash: DNS For The Rest Of Us
Ask MacSlash: DNS For The Rest Of Us
03/22/2005 04:45 PMA Festivus for the Rest of Us!
A Festivus for the Rest of Us!
12/24/2003 05:27 AMA Festivus for the Rest of Us! .. Festivus ..
Oh
karber.net/seinfeld/festivus/default.htm
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Learning to Rest
Learning to Rest
12/08/2003 08:08 AMAdam
Bosworth: I admit to not being a REST expert and the people
commenting, Mike Dierkin and Mark Baker in particular, certainly
are. They tell me I'm all wet about the REST issues. I'll dig into
it. But I admit, I don't get it. I need to be educated.
I personally think that the place to start is to first tease
apart the "HTTP is the one true protocol" from the "REST is the one
true architecture", and then initially focus on the latter.
Once done, you may come back to believe in one or both of these,
but they can be addressed independently.
To draw an analogy, Java 1.0 did not have a component
model. A convention of getters and setters methods
corresponding to a property emerged. Getters always have zero
parameters, setters typically have one.
On the web, there is an analogous component model.
Resources have a GET and POST method (as well as a few
others). This is not one per property, but one per resource
(object). This encourages a coarse grained approach to
integration - something that scales better than fine grained
access.
Nothing in REST requires or precludes an equivalent to
WSDL. However, nothing in WSDL today models the interaction
that is typical of WSDL itself: "at this address is a document of a
given type. If you GET it, you will find a strongly typed
description of another resource (endpoint)".
Anybody with experience in database design will tell you that it
makes sense to focus a lot of energy on optimizing reads. The
web does this well.
Other principles that apply: all persistent resources have
identifiers. No implicit state.
I have further thoughts posted at
REST+SOAP. I'd also point to
The Eight
Fallacies of Distributed Computing, but alas, it has gone
404. (The concept of 404 itself is an important implication
of a REST design).
SWiM - A CMS for the rest of us
SWiM - A CMS for the rest of us
03/30/2005 07:17 AMSWiM Beta1
iTunes For The Rest Of Us
iTunes For The Rest Of Us
12/16/2003 11:05 PMApple must open the iTunes Music Store internationally, or risk losing
the market share it has gained in the digital music market it created.
By Amy Percival (SpyMac via MyAppleMenu)
iTunes for the rest of us
iTunes for the rest of us
12/16/2003 06:33 PMApple must open the iTunes Music Store internationally, or risk losing
the market share it has gained in the digital music market it created.
As more and more competitors -- some of them very recognizable and
powerful names -- enter the market supporting Microsoft's Windows
Media file format, Apple will have a hard time convincing consumers
that the iPod, which doesn't support the Windows Media format, is
worth buying. Because Apple already has the dominant market share in
the U.S.,...
ReST vs RPC Redux
ReST vs RPC Redux
03/11/2003 11:53 AMIt looks like SOAP is destined to continue to be maligned and
misunderstood.
Dave Winer is
upset because not everybody limits themselves to his
narrow RPC profile of
SOAP usage. Non-RPC usage of SOAP isn't new - it was always
in the
spec.
And things that fit Dave's narrow profile continue to interop.
Mark Baker is
upset because SOAP permits usages which are not, in his and
many people's opinion, well architected. Usages such as
RPC. While many of Mark's arguments resonate with me, he
tends to throw the baby out with the bathwater. He might as
well say that Python is not a good language for building REST
systems because it can also be used for RPC.
Meanwhile, where Mark
throws up
his hands, others are
making progress.
The Beauty of REST
The Beauty of REST
04/09/2004 04:09 PMThrough his LibraryLookup project, Jon Udell finds that you don't need
to understand what REST is in order to benefit from its use in a
system.
REST Roundup
REST Roundup
05/23/2002 10:39 PMNo Rest for Nokia
No Rest for Nokia
04/16/2004 12:52 PMThe Finnish phone maker looks like a nail in a world full of hammers.
REST & SOAP
REST & SOAP
11/08/2002 04:05 AMA presentation summarizing REST and SOAP by Peter Drayton, Program
Manager (CLR), Microsoft.
The thesis for my talk was that this area of
intersection (RESTful SOAP) is actually a good thing, as it provides
an opportunity for SOAP to learn valuable architectural lessons from
REST, and an opportunity for REST to benefit from SOAP's widespread
acceptance among corporate developers.
Powerpoint
version.
"zeldman.altbarn"
"Read The Rest?"
"Read The Rest?"
04/12/2004 10:00 PMThe rest is history
The rest is history
04/12/2004 12:47 PMRest Assured
Rest Assured
06/15/2002 12:22 AMWebTechniques Jun 15 2002 0:02AM ET
REST vs SOAP
REST vs SOAP
03/11/2003 11:53 AMMy POW, FWIW:
The sweet spot is GET and POST of
XML Infomation
Sets. REST's content independence and SOAP's transport
independence are simultaneously both key strengths and weaknesses
of each approach. Both contain speculative features that have not
been widely adopted (e.g., DELETE? Content-Negotiation?). The most
underrated feature of SOAP is asynchronous messaging.
REST + SOAP is a powerful combination.
Focus On The Rest Of Your Life
Focus On The Rest Of Your Life
01/09/2004 09:57 PMWhen you have free time to play or to create, how do you spend your
time? By Daniel H. Steinberg (O'Reilly Network via MyAppleMenu)
Features: REST Reporting
Features: REST Reporting
03/14/2005 05:44 PMEric Gropp describes the design of a REST web service for creating
paper reports using XSLT and XSLFO.
US Vs Rest Of The World Spelling
US Vs Rest Of The World Spelling
04/14/2005 03:10 PMMeFi: may she rest in peace
MeFi: may she rest in peace
07/23/2004 09:55 PM
Tombstone
Generator The Rest of Sony's USB Drives
The Rest of Sony's USB Drives
06/21/2004 12:22 PM
I guess that
Pocket Bit Pro 2GB USB hard drive wasn't the only USB device announced
by Sony today, although the rest are these Yet Another Flash Drives,
which Sony has updated across the line. The Pocket Bit U-Mini D
(USM-D) are 30 percent smaller than previous models in sizes up to
256MB. The USM-F include a fingerprint sensor for security, although
it only comes in a 128MB flavor. The USB-BMS is a 128MB model that
includes a Memory Stick PRO slot, which would make it a bit more handy
than just a generic Memory Stick PRO reader, if that's the flash
memory format you're locked into you've chosen. And
finally, the USM-E, which isn't really that special except that it's
the largest of them all, capacity-wise, at 512MB.
Read
[TechJapan]
Related
Sony Pocket Bit Pro, 2GB USB Hard Drive
[Gizmodo]
REST microkernal and XML app server
REST microkernal and XML app server
03/06/2004 01:50 AMThis seems really cool. These new kinds of servers are gonna be a
key part of our collective future.
The 1060
REST microkernel and XML app server. 1060
NetKernel Suhail Ahmed alerted me, via email, to a really
interesting project called NetKernel, from 1060 Research. The docs
describe it as "a commercial open-source realisation of the HP Dexter
project." Here's the skinny:
Today's Web-servers and Application Servers have a
relatively flat interface which creates a hard boundary between Web
and non-Web. This boundary defines the zone of URI addressable
resources.
What if the REST interface (URI address space)
didn't end at the edge of your external interface?
NetKernel
uses REST-like service interfaces for all software components. The
services are fully encapsulated in modules which export a public URI
address space. A module may import other module's address spaces, in
this way service libraries may be combined into applications. [NetKernel Essentials]
What if,
indeed? I downloaded the 20MB NetKernel JAR file, installed the
system, and took it for a spin. Fascinating concept. As advertised, it
offers a suite of XML services -- including XSLT, and the Saxon
implementation of XQuery -- in a composable architecture based on
URIs. These include the familiar http: and file: plus NetKernel's own
active: which is a URI scheme for NetKernel processes scheduled by the
"REST microkernel."
... [
Jon's Radio] [
Ted Ritzer:
BizBlog]
Webs At Rest and In Motion
Webs At Rest and In Motion
07/10/2002 06:53 PMKendall Clark reports on best practices for web application design as
discussed on the REST mailing list.
No Day Of Rest For Internet Shoppers
No Day Of Rest For Internet Shoppers
04/02/2005 09:19 AMSky.com - Sat Apr 2, 11:39 am GMT
Zero Gravity Flights for the Rest of Us
Zero Gravity Flights for the Rest of Us
09/14/2004 02:28 PMWhere's Windows Installer 3.0 for the
Rest of Us?
Where's Windows Installer 3.0 for the
Rest of Us?
09/09/2004 06:02 PMReader: Where are Web tools for the rest
of us?
Reader: Where are Web tools for the rest
of us?
08/11/2004 01:02 AMZDNet Aug 11 2004 5:32AM GMT
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