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Eric Rice discovers that HP is doing
DLAs

Eric Rice discovers that HP is doing
DLAs 12/30/2004 08:02 PM

Eric Rice wrote.....

It's like Flickr, location-based moblogging with audio annotation, and a mobile-phone based operating system shell that reminds me of those guys that tried to make an OS that was history-based and stacked:

Keyword(s): digital media; photo sharing; multimodal; camera phones; storytelling

Abstract: The convergence of communication and imaging capabilities in a single device, the camera phone, is changing the way people take, share and communicate around pictures. In this paper, we describe and discuss three complementary research prototypes - MemoryNet Viewer, Plog and StoryMail - that we built to explore how media can be used as part of everyday storytelling activities. Each system focuses on informal, casual and lightweight solutions for multimedia storytelling and conversation. We conducted small preliminary pilot studies that revealed interesting patterns of use of the media within social networks, which we plan on investigating further.

Tech Report: HPL-2004-180: Enabling Informal Communication of DIgital Stories

[ eric rice]

Conversation with Nick in PLRs & DLAs
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Conversation with Nick in PLRs & DLAs
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Nick Graydos responded to my response:

Marc res ponded to my post last week about Digital Life Recorders and Digital Lifestyle Aggregators.

He brings up some interesting points about:

• usability


• backup


• situated software


• social interfaces

This is a tall order for any piece of software.

The key is in the word aggregators - note that the word is plural with an "s." 

We'll be using many services or pieces of software that are working in unison to provide one contiguous experience.

A current taste of this is Feedburner. It works seemlessly to bring together photos from Flickr, bookmarks from Del.icio.us and enhance my rss file. And it is simple taboot.

Of course, this will require people to work in existing technologies such as RSS, RDF, FOAF and so on to  make this cohesive whole.

The politics of standards are always the fun part.

[Nick Graydos > thynk]

So here's some clarifiation and some new thoughts:

Tell me about it. It's 95% poltiics.

Dan Brickley brought an interesting point. I hung out with Dan both in Amsterdam and then at Galway - recently. Dan pointed out that fundamentally FOAF, OpenMedia, OpenEvents, OpenReviews, etc. - are all the same technology.

That led me to say: "yes - but it's the seam at the micro-content level that's appropriate to divide them all up. Each constituency has it's own set of issues. What the media people care about or deal with - is completely different than the world of digital ID, Events or Reviews."

So that's why I've been pursuing the strategy I have - with each kind of micro-content being it's own cosmos - universe - with more or less the same technology being utilized in each.

We owe our debt of thanks to Dave Winer and RSS - and there's so much we can learn from and move forward with. Whether it's ATOM, RSS or RDF - the plumbing shouldn't matter.

It's the shit that goes through the pipes that matter. And keeping that shit structured is what counts.

Getting it all to work as a cohesive goal should be our goal.

We're ultimately competing with Apple and Microsoft on all this. If we all work together - we can stand up NEXT to them, instead of underneath them.

And as far as biting off a lot - that's what it's gonna take to solve the digital lifestyle connundrum. But that's a good thing - as it leaves lots of room for small developers to add their own module and inter-connect it together with a distributed mesh.

Here's how I described it for the Web 2.0 workshop:

A second approach to building the Web 2.0 platform from an open standards point of view – where lots of different developers can all contribute their own modules, functional blocks or components that all work together – in a meshed together decentralized environment. By establishing open standards surrounding new kinds of micro-content, the same benefits we’ve seen from RSS and aggregators (and the ‘blogosphere) - can be applied to people, events, media, reviews or listings.

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