Saturday, November 24, 2007

Net.Art Generator via William Gibson, part 2 HMMMM The link I posted earlier was to http://nag.iap.de Doesn't seem to be working now, but if I managed to get twenty people hooked on it, maybe we've crashed it. - Bill [Gibson Blog] 10:08:49 PM

contentSutra.com STAR India Adds MyIris.com, Zoom, The Sun And NatGeo To PLUS. I don't know how STAR India's mobile application PLUS is doing, but they're certainly getting more content on board - Indiantelevision reports that STAR has tied up with UKs The Sun for lifestyle content, financial portal MyIris.com, Times Group TV entertainment channel Zoom TV (for news, animations, wallpapers and program guide), and National Geographic Channel for "animal ring tones". STAR had launched PLUS earlier this year with the goal of becoming the de-facto mobile application for access to content, trying to play down the STAR association, in the hope that they would get third party content on board. That hasn't quite happened since rival ZEE has launched its own mobile offerings. In that context, STAR has finally managed to get third party content on board, with its association with National Geographic and Zoom. Question is: has STAR got this content because they have the users, or because NatGeo or Zoom have no plans for their own application? STAR has advertised its application extensively, across TV. There's nothing on whether the deals are exclusive, but I would be surprised if they were: exclusive content is far too expensive. By (Nikhil Pahwa). [contentSutra.com] 9:30:34 PM

New York Times - nytimesriver.com for mobile devices Oh man!. The NY Times has a piece today where they say the mobile web is so close yet so far. "The user experience has been a disaster," says Tony Davis, managing partner of Brightspark, a Toronto venture capital firm that has invested in two mobile Web companies. The NY Times has totally ignored the NY Times River, which makes the Times work on mobile devices with ease of use that they so often report is eluding them. It's like a fly perched on the end of your nose. You can feel it but it won't come into focus. Please, Times people, I beg you -- use it. You'll fall in love. I promise. [Scripting News] 9:17:34 PM

Michl Bridge michL bridge - Free yourself from music within a day [LREC010MP3]. "free yourself from music within a day" - untouched, unmastered, uncensored - this piece of work is about transformation. transforming a bad depressive feeling into something more helpful, into something positive at last.... This item belongs to: audio/luumu. This item has files of the following types: 192Kbps MP3, JPEG, Text [Internet Archive - Collection: luumu] 7:40:10 PM

via Zohar Efroni Sarkozy's digital agenda. Zdnet reports on a new initiative in France to tighten copyright protection over the Internet and prevent illegal downloading. The French president himself gave announcements that makes one think he's on payroll of the music and film industry ("we run the risk of witnessing a genuine destruction of culture...") read more [Stanford Center for Internet and Society [beta site] -] 7:35:54 PM

Net.Art Generator via William Gibson ANOTHER OF GOD'S LITTLE TOYS William Burroughs, in the early 1960s, called the audio tape recorder "God's little toy", enthusiastically incorporating it into his "cut-up" methodology. As far as I know, WSB never much took to personal computing, but playing with this, yesterday morning, I was reminded of his having remarked that a heroin addict can find simply staring at his own shoe sufficient entertainment for a good three or four hours. - Bill [Gibson Blog] 3:50:25 PM

Out of the Wild Wild turkeys visit for Thanksgiving, leave single-file before dinner. GREENLAWN, N.Y. - Fifteen wild turkeys strutted into a suburban hamlet on Thanksgiving Day and then left just in time to avoid dinner. [azcentral.com | thebuzz] 1:13:18 PM

Notes on the Semantic Web (nodalities blog) Alberto Reggiori Talks with Talis about Asemantics and the Semantic Web. In our latest Talking with Talis podcast, I talk with Asemantics' CTO, Alberto Reggiori. We talk about the evolving semantic web, and the realities of maintaining a business delivering semantic solutions to enterprises outside the traditional Semantic Web community. "Alberto Reggiori is co-founder and CTO of Asemantics S.r.l., a company working on cutting-edge Web technologies. He started to work on the Web back in 1995, and now specialises in new media, metadata and web data services. He has been prime developer of RDFStore, a native Semantic Web storage engine started back in 2000; and he is author of a number of open source packages and he participated to W3C standardistion activities related to SPARQL. While at Asemantics, Alberto has been working and consulting for companies like Skype, Joost, and recently for the BBC bringing innovative technologies into the customer Web infrastructures." Listen Now Download MP3 [44 mins, 20Mb] During the conversation, we refer to the following resources; Asemantics Atom BBC Date Aggregator project A report of Tim Berners-Lee's WWW2007 keynote GRDDL Joost Linking Open Data Project Microformats Open Social RDF Skype SPARQL Web 2.0 This conversation was conducted using Skype on Tuesday 20 November, recorded with Ecamm Network's Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband. For further Talking with Talis podcasts on the emerging Web of Data, see here. Technorati Tags: Alberto Reggiori, podcast, Podcasting, Asemantics, Semantic Web, Talis, Talking with Talis, Web 2.0, Web 3.0 [Nodalities] 12:58:05 PM