Wednesday, January 08, 2003

XML-RPC interface for live journal?  ?  ? 10:10:41 PM    comment []

an article for me to read later, "The folly of research funding in Candida" by bill buxton 4:19:36 PM    comment []

For me to read later, "The folly of research funding in Canada" by Bill Buxton. 4:12:51 PM    comment []

Its not the story. Jobs and Apple are fighting Bose Einstien condensation. Some networks are winner take all. [Linked], He needs to find a way to alter the meaning of what makes good fit. I don't think the digital hub strategy is it.  Tired Stories. "Maybe we don't pay enough attention to Wall Street," Mr. Jobs said. "Maybe it's the way we're telling them our story." [NYTimes] No, it's the story, Steve! It's not inclusive. It doesn't suggest growth. It's tired. [Robb Beal's Radio Weblog] 11:05:29 AM    comment []

Ok this is very cool to see Jon Scull back in the mix. He has a great paper called the Macroscope Manifesto in his stories on his blog. Another wave of blogmapping. Ross Mayfield, Valdis Krebs, and others have launched another wave of interest in social network mapping of blog space, with interesting results and comments, including (1) inlinks and outlinks should be differentiated (2) strength of connections could be indicated by proximity or by line thickness (3) the inevitable "busyness" of these maps when the dataset gets large is a perennial problem.  (other comments)     I did some experiments on these issues last spring (how time flies) and have some suggestions. Here's an image that differentiates inlinks and outlinks, and provides a diagnostic biomorphic shape (see http://radio.weblogs.com/0104369/stories/2002/03/06/whatAVisualSocnetExplorerMightBeMadeOf.html )[Jon Schull's Weblog] 11:00:34 AM    comment []

Read the story of the waternet It just struck me that the claimed that Safari is the first new major browser in 5 years depends greatly on what you consider to be called Major. Yes its the first browser Steve Jobs has done in five years but if you go to many shareware sites and look for alternate browsers you will find great activity in specialized browsers. Bill Buxton chief scientist at Alias/Wavefront has a paper titled Less is More that describes what we are going through as our network matures. It takes fifteen or twenty years for a build out like this to stabilize. We're really making facets and fancy pedestal sinks. 9:36:50 AM    comment []

Instapundit Unmasked!. Instapundit is featured in today's Tempo section of the Chicago Tribune in a story about blogging (free registration required). Mr. Reynolds noted this earlier today, but I don't think he's seen the actual print version! [The Shifted Librarian] 9:15:58 AM    comment []

Instant Messaging Milestone. 100 Million Text Messages Sent on New Year's Day "More than 100 million text messages were sent in the UK on New Year's Day as people greeted friends and relatives. It is the first time the number of text messages in one day has topped the 100 million mark, according to Mobile Data Association research. The total number of chargeable person-to-person text messages sent across the four UK network operators between midnight on December 31 and midnight on January 1 was 102 million. It marked a 59% increase on the same period in 2002 and more than twice the 2002 daily average, MDA added." [Ananova, via Lockergnome's Bits and Bytes] Do you really doubt this is going to eventually hit big in the U.S.? Libraries need to start preparing for an instant messaging future. [The Shifted Librarian] 9:15:28 AM    comment []

If you havent tried a tabed browser you should. He kind of does the same thing with the link bar and fast loading but he doesn't manage the space nicely. Haveing my favorite for or five sites preload at startup are great. launching new tabs for pages I want to get back to later make surfing somewhat asyncronious like email and allows me to go back to different information goals at the time I want. The tab histories are paths through knowledge and would be great food for an agent of my semantic web. Prediction: At some trade show in three months, at the end, Steve Jobs will say "Oh I almost forgot. I have one more thing." Everyone sucks in their breath. "We know you like our new Web browser, Safari, because there have been 285 million downloads. Did you know it's the most popular browser on the Internet? Well almost every one of the users has requested a tabbed interface, some many times. So we decided, what the heck, let's give them what they want." A virtual curtain opens on screen, says Tabs For Safari. The worldwide audience ejaculates spontaneously. [Scripting News] 9:13:34 AM    comment []

Tablets, Telephones, and Digital Cameras I'm going to start diving into a better understanding of the MetaWeblog API. How does it account for synchronization. After using groove on multiple computers for years I'm a believer of multiple copies of the same data on the device you want at the time you want to pick it up. There is still much missing especially in the UI were's my list builder how do I tell the dang things what I want where and when?  Register: Start-up marries blogs and camera phones. The right way to do this, imho, is to connect the phone-to-weblog software through the MetaWeblog API, that way existing weblog users could participate, and new users would have choice of backend software. Any cellphone service provider that buys into this proposal will have to scrap it in a few months when the general solutions come out. Maybe less than a few months. Mobile blogging, or moblogging is very hot. So is choice for users. [Scripting News] 9:05:56 AM    comment []

Adobe Photoshop Album Review. We have had a copy of Adobe Photoshop Album 1.0 beta for evaluation, and I have to admit it's very impressive. Photoshop Album is designed to be a total solution for the acquisition, organisation,... [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)] [Marcus' Tablet PC Radio Weblog] 2:46:21 AM    comment []