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HNS Learning Session: Session Hijacking
Explained
HNS Learning Session: Session Hijacking
Explained
04/22/2004 09:08 AMETech come-down...
ETech come-down...
02/13/2004 08:03 PMRight then. Emerging Tech is
over and everyone's heads are full and we've all got a little bit of a
hangover from last night celebrations and socialising. I'm now back in
Los Angeles, having taken the train up from San Diego with the lovely
Phil and Anno. The train journey was filled
with little aggravating child noises and I was sitting in the wrong
direction so arrive in LA feeling queasy and dizzy. The train goes so
close to the Ocean that it's almost impossible not to want to
sacrifice all future working ambitions, get out at any convenient
station and run giggling into the water with warm sand between your
toes. Manfully, I have resisted.
I fly back to the UK on Sunday evening - arriving back sometime
around early lunchtime on Monday. I think I'm going to have to make an
appeal for a long weekend off work to try and digest everything that's
been going on and make sense of it. I think my understanding of the
event is even more blurry this year than last. In the meantime posting
is likely to be more erratic than usual...
Etech 2004
Etech 2004
02/10/2004 02:51 AMOff to Etech tonight, staying through Tuesday night. Proposed to do a
Participant Session at the last minute on business models for social
software and social networking. Its such short notice, it probably
won't self-organize, so at the least I'm...
[etech] From the Labs
[etech] From the Labs
03/17/2005 03:00 AMFifteen minute presentations on what's going on in labs... Rick
Rashid, Microsoft Labs. "SenseCam" is a wearable recorder, presumably
part of MyLifeBits, the Gordon Bell project. He takes us under the
hood. E.g., they wait for stability to take a photo in order to avoid
blurriness. "The ultimate blogging tool," he says [if you've confused
blogging with living]. He says there are 12 operational units so far.
They're building a new generation: Smaller, GPS, continuous audio. He
also talks about "surface computing" that lets you manipuate images on
a surface. [It's very similar to a concept video Bruce Tognazzini
did...
Is ETech Elitist?
Is ETech Elitist?
02/10/2004 11:47 AMI've not had a chance to keep up with the happenings at this year's
Emerging Technology Conference, but I've heard two things that bother
me so far: Russell says: Interesting conference - too bad I wasn't
there to get a longer impression, but boy it seemed like there were
some serious pecking orders there. And someone else I know there said
this via IM last night: You are missing some good conferences this
week here, although I have come to...
[etech] Technorati
[etech] Technorati
02/10/2004 02:48 PMDave Sifry, another of my heroes, is listing some of Technorati's
stats: 1.6M sources, a new weblog every 8 seconds, the index updated
within 7 mins of a posting. [I'm here even though I alsoreally wanted
to see Eric Boabeau's talk] [Damn! My first draft of this put this
badly! I left the "also" out of the previous sentence. I'm here
because Technorati is so damn cool and interesting. And so is Eric.]
Dave shows a hack he created last night: A list of the top products
discussed in the last 24 hours. He has us post to our blogs...
[etech] iRobot
[etech] iRobot
02/10/2004 02:48 PM Helen Greiner, iRobot president and cofounder, is giving a
commercial. She shows an ad. She tells us her company is hot. She
tells us that her company's robotic vacuums (Roombas) pick up more
dirt than conventional vacuums and cost less than the competitors. The
only topic of technical interest she touches on is how Roombas escape
from tricky areas of houses. In her demo of the vacuum, she actually
sprinkles crumbs on the floor, like every door-to-door vacuum sales
person in history. Oy veh. Vacuum robots are just the tip of the
iceberg, she says. [Let's hope so.] The...
Pecking at ETech?
Pecking at ETech?
02/11/2004 04:17 PMRussell says:
Interesting conference - too bad I wasn't there to get a longer
impression, but boy it seemed like there were some serious pecking
orders there.
And someone else I know there said this via IM last night:
You are missing some good conferences this week here,
although I have come to the conclusion that a lot of the bloggers are
pretty pompous.
I'm not sure what to make of that. Pecking
orders? Pompous? It bothers me, I guess.
That's odd. I
haven't noticed pecking or being pecked. Pompous? Nothing more or less
than I would expect. I wonder if I'm missing something? I'm generally
fairly sensitive about this sort of stuff. Anyone here at ETech have
any specific examples?
I DO think we're talking about blogging too much, but pecking?
Via Yusuf
Links from Day 3 of ETech
Links from Day 3 of ETech
03/19/2005 02:33 AMThis is a dump of lnks of interest to me that come up during talks
during the third day at Etech. Newest at top.
An Intimate History of Humanity by Theodore Zeldin
Matt Webb says this is one of his favorite books from 2004.
Etech next week
Etech next week
02/10/2004 02:47 AMAdriaan and Boris are coming!
Emerging
Technology. 
I will be at O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference in
San Diego from February 9th to 12th. Joichi Ito, for whom I
work, and Boris Anthony will also be present.
There's going to be quite a few familiar names at ETech (e.g. Marc
Canter), and I will be meeting most of them
face-to-face for the first time. It should be a very busy but a good
event. [chaotic
intransient prose bursts]
ETech day 1 starts
ETech day 1 starts
02/10/2004 02:51 AMArrived at ETech. Lots of people
and not enough time to blog. The Internet in my room isn't working,
but hopefully, they'll fix it today. Today is the Digital Democracy
Teach-In. Should be fun. I'll try to post notes.
A few one liners I scribbled in my notebook:
"I wanted to be a revolutionary, but all I got was this stupid
blog."
"I'm not an academic, but I play one on my blog."
UPDATE:
from gapingvoid
Photos from ETech
Photos from ETech
02/10/2004 02:51 AM
Rob Kaye is promoting bluetooth this year...
My ETech 2004
photo album (feel free to use any of the photos)
I'll be uploading through the day.
Blogging eTech
Blogging eTech
02/10/2004 02:50 AMIn addition to the slew of live-bloggers and wiki coverage already
taking place at
O'Reilly's Emerging
Technology Conference in San Diego (Cory's a featured speaker, and
I'm popping in to schmooze for a few hours later today!), Jason
Calacanis just launched
www.bloggingetech.com.
Virtually at ETech
Virtually at ETech
02/10/2004 02:47 AMA shout out to all my peeps at O'Reilly's
ETech conference
this week. I'm disappointed I can't join you. Tim, Rael,
and company have done a marvelous job coralling the cool and the
mind-blowing -- and that applies to both the ideas and the
people. ETech is bigger and more geeky than
Supernova, but sometimes
it's fun to let your inner geek out.
I'll participate virtually via the blogs and other online tools.
As I've noted on the other side with Supernova, remote virtual
participation isn't nearly as rich as physical presence. But
it's
something.
Links from Day 2 of ETech
Links from Day 2 of ETech
03/17/2005 03:25 AMThis is a dump of lnks of interest to me that come up during talks
during the second day at Etech. Newest at top. Late start because I
was running in the AM.
Ta-da Lists
Really simple to-do list management.
Cory Doctorow's notes
Cory's notes from James Surowiecki's talk, "Independent Individuals
and Wise Crowds, or Is It Possible to Be Too Connected?"
The SchoolTool Project
"SchoolTool is a project to develop a common global school
administration infrastructure that is freely available under an Open
Source licence."
Instiki
"Instiki is a Wiki Clone (What is a wiki?) that’s so easy to set up
and so pretty to look at, you’ll be wondering whether this is a real
wiki at all...Instiki only relies on Ruby—no Apache, no MySQL, or
other dependencies(yay!). Instiki runs on Windows, Linux, OSX, and any
other platform where Ruby does."
Dodgeball
"A service which aims to coordinate social interactions between mobile
users"
Pac-Manhattan
"Pac-Manhattan is a large-scale urban game that utilizes the New York
City grid to recreate the 1980's video game sensation Pac-Man. This
analog version of Pac-man is being developed in NYU's Interactive
Telecommunications graduate program, in order to explore what happens
when games are removed from their 'little world' of tabletops,
televisions and computers and placed in the larger 'real world' of
street corners, and cities."
ETECH is coming up....
ETECH is coming up....
01/16/2004 11:28 AMO'
Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference....
O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology Conference…
Posted Jan 15, 2004, 6:54 PM ET by Judith Meskill
O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology
Conference — taking place at the Westin Horton Plaza,
San Diego, CA, Feb. 9-12, 2004 — will have a Social Software track. This promises to
be an excellent event with a broad spectrum of notable speakers that
includes (but is certainly not limited to): Helen Greiner - iRobot Corp., Cory Doctorow - EFF, Lili Cheng - Microsoft Research, Gilman Louie - In-Q-Tel, David Sifry - Technorati, Joichi Ito - Neoteny, Elizabeth Lawley - Rochester Institute of
Technology, and, of course, Tim O’Reilly - O’Reilly &
Associates. [The
Social Software Weblog]
This is the key event of the year. We're gonna party like is
USED to be 1999.
I'll be there - sponsored by Laszlo Systems and I'll be giving
a :05 minute talk on FOAF and the PeopleAggregator.
But clearly the most exciting event will be the field trip to TJ
and the House of Mole. Something not to be missed.
Loïc is coming to Etech
Loïc is coming to Etech
01/12/2004 03:01 AMWill participate at
E-Tech in San Diego Feb 9 to 12, let's meet there.. Just signed up
to O'Reilly's Emerging Technology
Conference in San Diego, Feb 9-12.
I know many of you will
be there, let me know if you have some time so that we can meet during
the conference.
Hope to see many #Joiito participants at
Jeannie and Jibot. [Loïc
Le Meur's WebLog]
Hey - at least ONE person will be paying full fair to Etech.
Well maybe not, I'm sure Loïc will get some sort of VIP
treatment and comped. Afterall - he IS a famous French
entreprenuer - right?
Etech Notes
Etech Notes
03/17/2005 03:37 AM Transcribed two sessions: Wikipedia and the Future of Social
Computing (video snip) Tags and Folksonomies Panel...
[etech] FOAF
[etech] FOAF
02/11/2004 08:25 PM Dan Brickley is explaining Friend of a Friend. (I had a chance to
talk with him about this yesterday in a hallway.) It's an XML standard
that allows people to express information about themselves...the sorts
of things you might say on your homepage. There are currently 2M FOAF
descriptions in the world. There are different styles of FOAF files.
You can be very explicit about relationships: "Jane is my arch
nemesis." But there's also a more implicit, evidence-based approach:
Libby and I went to the same school and work for the same
organization. ("I lean toward this one," says...
CC at O'Reilly Etech
CC at O'Reilly Etech
02/10/2004 02:41 AMCreative Commons will be an exhi
bitor at the O'Reilly Emerging
Technology Conference in San Diego next week.
Etech is regarded by many as the best tech conference of the year,
always in step with the latest creations and aspirations of the alpha
geeks, having evolved from
the Peer-to-Peer Conference in early 2001 and P2P & Web Services in
late 2001 to the current multi-tracked annual conference starting two
years ago. (Incidentally, the Creative Commons concept was in
troduced at ETCon 2002. How time flies.)
Matt
Haughey and Mike
Linksvayer will be attending. Stop by the Creative Commons booth,
or better yet our parti
cipant session (time and location yet to be announced). We'll be
introducing a new CC metadata-enhanced application. Hint: it's
described in one of our tech
challenges, heretofore unmet.
If you're in the area but not an attendee, you can still reg
ister for a free exhibits pass, or an exhibits plus keynotes and
birds-of-a-feather (participant sessions) pass for only $50. Hope to
see you there!
Links from Day 1 of Etech
Links from Day 1 of Etech
03/17/2005 03:25 AMThis is a dump of lnks of interest to me that come up during talks
during the first day at Etech. Newest at top.
Citizen journalism, one-handed department
"There has been so much debate over whether bloggers are journalists,
the real issue has been obscured: are IRC chatters journalists? Mr.
Sun has done some careful investigation and found that the IRC
conversation logged below preceded the supposed revolutionizing of
journalism by bloggers." Totally unrelated to the conference, but a
funny reminder that I don't read Mr. Sun enough.
Ten Hour Takeover
"Ten Hour Takeover is your chance to choose the music Radio 1 plays."
The BBC asked listeners to send a text message song request. Ten hours
of music totally driven by the listening public. Awesome.
"Average UK adult listens to 24 hours of radio a week" according to
Paul in the presentation, BBC Programme Information Pages: An
Architecture for an On-Demand World. Wow. That's amazing. For
comparison, I found this document about American teenage radio habits
stating that US young adults agee 12-17 listen to an average of 13.5
hours of radio a week. Maybe it's because we've got more Clear Channel
and they've got Radio 1?
Cory's notes from George Dyson's talk
Dyson's talk on "Von Neumann's Universe" was one of my favorites so
far, and makes me want to take a field trip to Princeton to visit the
Institute for Advanced Study.
Near Near Future
A blog from a woman who's, "currently working as a new media
consultant for a multimedia and virtual reality park in Turin." I like
the way she's got her categories displayed across the top of the page,
using a larger font to display categories with more posts.
pasta and vinegar
"A blog by nicolas nova about pasta (human computer interaction,
innovation, technologies, futuristic trends, location based services,
mobile computing, user-centric stuff, video game design) and vinegar
(digital culture and various weird stuff)."
The real digital divide (The Economist)
"Encouraging the spread of mobile phones is the most sensible and
effective response to the digital divide"
(The above link is not from the conference, I read this on the plane
and it's very interesting, I recommend the whole Technology Quarterly
in the March 12th-18th The Economist. A lot of what I read in it feels
relevant to what I'm thinking about and hearing at ETech.)
Google Sets
"Automatically create sets of items from a few examples." Here's an
example with peanut butter & jelly.
Tech Buzz Game
"The Tech Buzz Game is a fantasy prediction market for high-tech
products, concepts, and trends."
applied minds, inc.
Danny Hillis is talking about walking dinosaur that's electrically
driven and fully articulated and all kinds of amazing robots that I'll
find links for and pictures of later, I want to listen now.
Flickr Graph
"Flickr Graph is an application that explores the social relationships
inside flickr.com."
Flickrfox
"flickrfox is an extension for Firefox (version 1.0) that lets you
browse your Flickr photostreams in a sidebar."
Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager
Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager looks really cool but doesn't seem to
work in Firefox. It graphs the popularity of baby names over time.
Loïc's Etech report
Loïc's Etech report
02/12/2004 03:20 PM"No one owns who my
friends are". Great FOAF session today. Dan Brickley who created
FOAF, gave a good overview of what it is and how it is used.
I
enjoyed the idea of dating on
phones via bluetooth and FOAF.
This way you can date
somebody who is in the same room, same restaurant, immediately, with
the same interests as you... Great stuff.
Marc and Eric also OF COURSE showed People Aggregator. I really
like the idea of linking the friends I have in Orkut with the friends I have in Linked In, with the
friends I have in ...
I am not sure these networks will agree
to share their databases with you (or anybody else), Marc, but let's
see what happens. I agree on the fact that if we all own our own
identity on a FOAF file, it is better than having to fill-it in in 10
different networks...
Also saw a demo of NewsMonster, it is an RSS
reader that supports FOAF. Nice work, John. "There is too many social
networks. You do not own my data, I do. "
John is also working
on "Exportster", which is a plugin that should be ready within a
month. Its goal is to be able to export the data from the different
networks and sync them.
"We export the data from social
networks and sync them all, so that there is one macro level FOAF
file, in order to have a unified data model."
Tribe also
announced that they support FOAF.
Greg Elin showed fotonotes.net that is
coordinating a semantic photo project which is exploring the issues
combining FOAF and RDF for photos, impressive.
Marc Powell
talked briefly about
Indyvoter.org, "injecting the virus of political dialogue into
online social networks", also supporting FOAF. [Loïc Le Meur's WebLog]
BTW What my hands are trying to convey are the two dots over
Loïc's letter i. :-)
More fun with etech audio
More fun with etech audio
03/19/2005 03:04 AMEv gave an amazing demo of Odeo. That thing is going to be as big
(or bigger) than Flickr, I'm sure of it.
Here's the whole talk as
a ogg file (my mp3 export in audacity refuses to work) and some
photos of the screens on my feed (lots more I'll upload
later).
Danny and Merlin's lifehacks talk was good too, here's the whole
thing as an ogg file as well.
Etech Bound
Etech Bound
03/14/2005 06:25 PMHeaded to my third Etech next week. I'll only be there for part
of it, so drop me a note if you want to meet....
Etech TrackBacks
Etech TrackBacks
03/20/2003 08:50 PM
The O'Reilly Emerging
Technology Conference
has TrackBacks (and their associated auto-discovery RDF) baked into
every single
keynot
e,
tutor
ial,
se
ssion, and
BoF
page.
This means you can target your bloggings of the event, providing both
us, the organizers, and your peers with live feedback on the goings
on.
<good on you,
terrie!>
ETech TrackBacks
ETech TrackBacks
03/20/2003 09:59 PM
Rael Dornfest:
_
The O'Reilly
Emerging Technology Conference has TrackBacks (and their
associated auto-discovery RDF) baked into every single
keynot
e,
tutorial,
session, and
BoF
page. This means you can target your bloggings of the event,
providing both us, the organizers, and your peers with live
feedback on the goings on. <good on you,
terrie!>_
Google at ETech
Google at ETech
03/11/2003 11:38 PMThis is interesting. I'm not sure what to make of it, but apparently
Google is a platinum sponsor at the 2003 Emerging Technology
Conference. Hm. Amazon.com, ADC, and Macromedia are also on the list.
A few of the sponsors have speakers on the list of featured speakers.
It looks like Google's Craig Silverstein is giving a keynote. I
haven't decided if I want to try and go this year. The conference will
be during a very busy time for me....
You say Etech, we say Etcon, Etech,
Etcon. Etcon, Etech.
You say Etech, we say Etcon, Etech,
Etcon. Etcon, Etech.
02/01/2005 09:56 PMThe Early Bird discounts for the O'Reilly Emerging Technology
Conference run out on Monday. So hurry hurry hurry, and I'll get the
first round in come March 14-17. There's a considerable amount of
coolness on the program, and to balance...
Life from Etech 2005...
Life from Etech 2005...
03/17/2005 03:29 AMBefore I start, a brief shout-out to everyone coming over here from
BBC
News. I'm kind of overwhelmed by how many of you there are. I wish
I'd had a bit more time to slap up a new lick of paint and fix all the
little bugs that have crept into the site over the last year or so
while I've been working my arse off.
But quite a lot of that work is really starting to pay off now, so
I'm not going to apologise too much. I'm at ETech 2005 right now and
I'm watching Tim O'Reilly on stage. Rael Dornfest's just done his
session on what it means to remix and why that's the theme of the
event. Tim's talking about design patterns and Christopher Alexander
and open source stuff. And as usual it's all looking pretty
interesting and plays right smack into the heart of my deeply held
prejudices, which is always nice. I'm not going to post up all my
notes this year - I'm concentrating on absorbing as much as possible
and staying calm and focused for our presentation this afternoon: Re
inventing Radio: Enriching Broadcast with Social Software (with Matt Webb, Paul Hammond and Matt Biddulph). We'll post that
presentation up after the event, of course. If you're there, feel free
to give me a ping and we'll meet up or something! Particularly
interested in talking about social software, media distribution,
post-broadcast tech, PVRs and EPGs and the like...
Read the comments
Live from Etech: Joe Trippi...
Live from Etech: Joe Trippi...
02/10/2004 02:46 AMRapid recontextualisations make my head hurt. Nonetheless today I'm
not in Los Angeles having fun with friends in drag. Today instead I'm
watching Joe Trippi talking about American politics and the
consequences and effects of the Dean's internet-enabled online
fund-raising and campaigning tools. The basic conclusions of his talk
are quite simple:
- Broadcast media was supposed to give people greater access to
democracy, but instead it's failed us completely;
- All it meant was that to persuade people in the country,
candidates had to go to the people with the real money in order
to buy screen-time;
- Let no one believe that campaigning isn't about the money - it
is;
- We have to give the ownership of politics back to the people;
- The only medium that can restore that ownership back to the people
- both in terms of getting funds raised from the grass-roots and
getting home-grown organisation happening among the people - is the
internet;
- If the people are paying for the campaign then special interests
have less impact;
- The tools weren't there a couple of years ago, but they are
now;
- The press are describing the Dean campaign's online strategies as
a failure - as a 'dot-com crash';
- But how can it be? They raised an enormous amount of money from
the grass-roots, and a year ago Dean was absolutely nowhere.
- That now we have to find new tools in order to help this kind of
people-owned democracy happen in the future.
The weirdest part of the session was the pretty-much standing
ovation at the end of the event that revealed the whole thing to be
(as suspected) pretty much more of a political rallying speech towards
the web community than a descriptive or didactic piece. Nonetheless,
some interesting insights in amongst the passion.
One thing that did occur to me, though, was whether or not - given
the importance of money to politics - the BBC could possibly think
about adding a fund-raising tool into iCan. I can imagine the outrage
that could surround that, but it would be tremendously interesting and
useful to have an independent arbiter displaying nothing but
statistical information about candidates and political parties and
then helping to actually engage the general public by allowing people
to donate money directly to a campaign.
Another thing was how useful UpMyStreet Conversations could
be in terms of poltical campaigning (or at least political
organisation). I think I might have to introduce the concept into the
proceedings at some point. It's not a system that would necessarily
work terribly well in the US - given that their ZIP code system is so
radically different from UK Postal Codes - but in principle I think it
could be a tremendously useful mechanism for getting campaigners in
contact with one another, for advertising and promoting events and for
having local discussions about policy. [Although I guess if it was
possible, someone might have done it already, given the fact that
apparently Clay Shirky introduced
Al Gore to the site a year or so ago].
Addendum: Please forgive me for the obvious and rampant
discontinuity of posting styles - drag-act nurse babes (hey Sean) and
American Politics / technology may not be obvious bedfellows. Although
come to think of it, I'm sure there are associations and relationships
that could be drawn between the two...
Read the comments
alternate Etech schedule
alternate Etech schedule
01/29/2004 08:03 PMit's funny because it's *true*
[etech] Day 2 - Tom Igoe - Net Objects
[etech] Day 2 - Tom Igoe - Net Objects
03/17/2005 03:00 AMTom describes student projects. [I missed many of these] - A purse
displays when wifi is present - A protest button initiates a DOS
attack on a nearby malevolent corporation - "Needies" — stuffed
animals with mp3 players. If two get together, they talk shit about
others behind their backs. - CareNet displays grandma's life signs
around the edge of an electronic photo of her - Junkie's Little
Helper: If levels of meds in a med cabinet drops low, it goes on line
and alerts IRC chats that the person is high - Ku: It communicates
sadness over the Net....
[etech] Microsoft Tesla
[etech] Microsoft Tesla
03/17/2005 03:00 AMLast night I got a demo of a Microsoft lab project that will be
available this summer. Tesla is a layer on top of XP that provides an
alternative way of structuring and accessing the files on your
desktop. You can sort your files by a whole bunch of the usual file
attributes (date, size, etc.) but also by tags. Tags replace folders.
(It's a faceted classification system.) Tesla virtualizes the file
system to the point that it doesn't care which actual machine a file
lives on. So, if you have home and office computers, it syncs them up
automatically....
[etech] Day 2 - Folksonomies panel
[etech] Day 2 - Folksonomies panel
03/17/2005 03:00 AMClay Shirky moderates a panel on folksonomies. Participants: Jimbo
Wales (wikipedia), Joshua Schachter (del.icio.us) and Stewart
Butterfield (flickr). Clay: Why did you decide to let users in to
categorization? Jimbo: We launched our categorization system last
June. For the first few weeks, it was a complete madhouse in the
English wikipedia. In the German one, they held off for a couple of
weeks. It took a little while for things to be rationalized. We
decided to let the masses categorize it because that's just the Wiki
way. Stewart: We added it because Joshua told us to. I don't think
of...
[etech] Day 2 - Justin Chapweske
[etech] Day 2 - Justin Chapweske
03/17/2005 03:00 AMJustin, of Onion Networks, talks about "the swarming Web." Standard
http, he says, doesn't work well for transferring large files: You
have a 64% chance of failure if you transfer a gigabyte. (Here's his
"large file hall of shame".) "Swarming" is like RAID for Web content.
Even as bandwidth increases, we need more reliable servers. And better
make 'em fault tolerant. And he doesn't like setting up mirrors
because it's a bad experience for users. Instead Onion Networks uses
swarming — the technique BitTorrent uses — as a native Web
format. "It's ad hoc, Self-provisioning, it scales on demand." It...
ETech 2004 pictures
ETech 2004 pictures
02/19/2004 07:39 PM I finally put up my photos2004 O'Reilly Emerging Technology
conference in San Diego that I have written about. Most of them are
just ho-hum, but there is a good picture of Esther Dyson and a good
photo of Cory Doctorow and Bill Kearney, as well a few good photos of
the great em3rg1ngl0ft aka Dachb0den Labs party. Enjoy....
A funny moment at ETech
A funny moment at ETech
02/11/2004 09:50 PMI'm sitting behind Cory Doctorow at ETech listening to some guy drone
on and on about Web Services. It's the end of the day and it's a very
boring presentation. So I browse my home page, and see a newswire
story about the CIA website posting asking for help finding Weapons of
Mass Destruction. I browse the CIA site, and sure enough, it is there.
I check the url on Technorati, to see who has blogged it. To my
surprise, it doesn't look like anyone has. It seems like an
appropriate post for ETech, since as well as being an amusing act of
desperation, it is an innovative public use of technology by the CIA,
so I stick something on my linklog, The Midnight Blog, about it. Then
it occurs to me that Cory might be amused, but I don't want to
interrupt him from his notetaking, so I send him something via the
form on boingboing. About two minutes later, I see him open up the CIA
site on his laptop, chuckle, then open up Blogger. Sure enough, 3
minutes later the link is up on boingboing. I'm sure it will be
through the blogosphere by the morning, with all kinds of intelligent
commentary that I was too tired to add. The tools and the velocity of
information flow available today are amazing, even if the purposes
they are put to aren't always that important....
Live from ETech: Day Two Schedule...
Live from ETech: Day Two Schedule...
02/11/2004 08:19 PMIn lieu of a detailed coverage of what's been going on at ETCon, I
just thought I'd post a schedule of the talks I've been to today. I'll
drill down into some of the more interesting ones later this evening
or tomorrow.
Live from Etech: Flickr and the end of
Day One...
Live from Etech: Flickr and the end of
Day One...
02/10/2004 11:53 PMSo ETCon Proper Day One ends and I'm basically high on some kind of
highly emotionally charged intellectual hysteria-generating buzz. So
far I've only managed to write about the things that have caused me
frustration and irritation - probably because irritation can be easily
quantified and described while the enjoyable papers cause an explosion
of possibilities that are hard to collate and contain. The papers I've
found most stimulating today have been threefold:
The first two in particular I can't rave enough about and have
pushed me into some kind of weird euphoric intellectual trance - but I
think it's best that I talk about them later when I'm feeling more
centred and can produce a more rational response. The Castranova piece
on cyberspace economies intrigued me and stimulated me because of the
question-and-answer component rather more than the paper itself -
which was more of a bringing-up-to-speed piece for people who haven't
been reading Terranova or
read Richard Bartle's Designing
Virtual Worlds.
But it was the final talk of the day that was the most heady, but
more because of the launched product and the play around it than the
talk itself. I'm going to let Cory describe what was launched because
- frankly - I'm a bit fried:
Flikr is a social image-sharing application: it's a
mechanism for creating ad-hoc chats, using a drag-and-drop GUI
interface that lives inside your browser, and share images from
peer-to-peer and within conversational groups.
I've beta-tested this at various points and at each time I've been
struck by Ludicorp's amazing combination of utilitarian, usable
interface aesthetic and genuinely witty whimsy. As Ben Ceivgny, a
developer on the project, said:
We collect images with cameraphones and so forth, but we
have no good mechanism for advancing them out into the world. Here's a
mechanism for batching them into a locked-and-loaded tool for firing
them into the world.
I'm not a Ludicorp adviser, but I have been beta-testing it. It's
bloody good fun and I highly recommend it. Much much better than Orkut - introducing Flickr!
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