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Oliver Wrede · Posted on 24 Apr 200613 Jan 2019

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Project Natal

Oliver Wrede · Posted on 2 Jun 200913 Jan 2019

Obviously Microsoft feels the need to claim back some market share the Nintendo Wii took away with a new controller type. Project Natal is utilizing a range of biometric sensors for body motion, face and voice recognition. The video is more a vision than an actual feature presentation. But it is clear what the goals …

Jose Gonzalez Live – exclusively on Sly-Fi.com

Oliver Wrede · Posted on 24 Jun 200813 Jan 2019

Hobnox is exclusively providing a recording of the live concert of José Gonzaléz in Admiralspalast in Berlin. Beautiful concert, excellent camera work, perfect sound. And we are investigating to deliver this in near-HD video quality soon (stay tuned). [See on Sly-Fi-Channel]

Hobnox Audiotool – Kewl! Totally!

Oliver Wrede · Posted on 21 Feb 200813 Jan 2019

Next week Hobnox will launch the first Beta version of the community website. And we will integrate Flash-based tools to manipulate a content library. Here is an appetizer… Most areas of the site will start out as closed beta and/or demos, but we want to slowly ramp up the features and the design. We have …

News from the evolution

Oliver Wrede · Posted on 17 Dec 200713 Jan 2019

The Hobnox evolution contest is half way through and there are now 280 submissions in three categories: music (220), film (79), urban culture (30). There are regular “news” with portraits of some of the contestants on the Hobnox channels like this: For example »Twisted Reality« by Johannes Guerreiro and Krystian Majewski from the Koeln International …

BBC Extras

Oliver Wrede · Posted on 20 Aug 200513 Jan 2019

If you liked The Office you might want to see Extras – a new comedy show by/with Ricky Gervais. The main idea: it swaps the roles of stars and extras so that the extras are the stars of the show and the stars are the extras (kind of). But anyway without the stars appearing as …

Facebook & Instagram destroy your attention span?

Admin · Posted on 13 Mar 20199 Nov 2020

Just yesterday I wrote about Tim Berners-Lee complaining about what the web is like today. Today I found more commentary that supports this view. Big players like Facebook, Instagram introduced means to kill the ability of users to use URLs to create meaningful relations. On Facebook users are just allowed to express meaning in the …

First Web Browser

Admin · Posted on 12 Mar 201923 Mar 2019

The World Wide Web was invented as a hypertext document repository by Tim Berners-Lee who was working at the CERN research institute in Geneva. The OS Tim was using was NeXT (a predecessor to the MacOS X of today). There is a emulation of the first web browser in a NeXT UI (following links apparently …

Search beats Navigation

Oliver Wrede · Posted on 3 Oct 201823 Mar 2019

Search has become one of the primary ways to access information online. There are six major drivers that have caused this departure from “orientation & navigation” tools as the main design challenge: 1. Bandwidth Having good search means you need to have a very good index. Indexing vast amounts of data mean having to dig …

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