details of a global brain
Userplane A/V blogger
More blogging sidecar tools arrive: Userplane’s Audio & Video Blogger service is an easy-to-use system allowing the creation of audio and video recorded messages for use in blogs, websites and email.The Userplane AV Recorder application will automatically detect your camera and microphone, and allow you to record up to a 10 minute recording. Each recording…
Audioscrobbler
Napster was not only hot because of the easy sharing of MP3 files – but also because of finding interesting music in libraries of people with similar taste. Now that Napster is dead the P2P-netowkrs have taken over – but they don’t really offer something that comes close to Napster. So what other ideas people…
Flickr export from iPhoto
There is a little iPhoto Plug-In that allows direct export to Flickr. It works as export filter and is used to upload images (but not manage uploaded images). So the best image collection management application meets the best online image sharing application. Bravo!
Creativity Techniques
Here is a site that contains descriptions about creativity techniques: Below are listed a number of creativity techniques to help with creative thinking. Like most tools these creativity techniques all have their good and bad points. I like to think of these creativity techniques as tools in a toolbox in much the same way as…
How Blogs and Wiki fit together
Julian Elve describes how he uses Weblogs and Wikis together: I’ve found the writing style that has started to evolve since I had this combination of tools is to scatter thoughts around the wiki-spaces until some juxtaposition forms that is sufficiently clear to create a blog-entry. The blog-entry becomes a picture of my thinking at…
Partisan Radio
Adam Curry and Dave Winer started a series of two-head radio talk show called “Trading Secrets“. You can download the first show (60 MB). They talk about politics and some IT stuff. The show is basically like a long phone call. Dave calls via Skype from USA with his Windows laptop while Adamy Curry records…
Software patents kill innovation
Martin Brampton from Silicon.com doubts that software patents are rarely as innovative as the simplistic argument for patents would suggest. A parallel debate is being fought in science. Governments have sought increased commercial involvement with university research, but the price has often been proprietary control over new ideas. Many academic scientists are opposing this trend,…
Back from Frankfurt
The “Future of computing” presentation at the Museum for Communication went well although only few people appeared (among them was Jochen Robes from weiterbildungsblog.de who happened to read about it here). Jochen suggested I should have advertised the event more on my weblog, but I assume this wouldn’t have made much of a difference. I…
Frontier Open Source
Dave Winer on the upcoming open source release of Frontier: “Technically, the software is ready to go.” I am curious if the old Frontier developers come back to life. There have been so many threads dropped after Frontier went commercial in 1996.
The future of computing
I am currently busy to finish a presentation about the future of computing. I am going to present at the Museum for Communication in Frankfurt on Thursday, 7 p.m. If you have heard of a interesting technology, a future vision or application concept – please consider adding this to the Wiki here. Update: Someone anonymously…
Back from stasis…
Here we go: after some vacation (sort of) I’m dropping back into a pool of work. Things come rushing in quickly so I’m not sure how blogging will increase as well.
Tinderbox special price
Eastgate currently sells Tinderbox for $99 instead of $145. Including a full year of free updates this is really a good price for this multi-purpose information/content management software (and much more). It is almost free for a software that can make you a better human!
This particular outliner
Ted Goranson (from “About This Particular Macintosh”) updated his detailed series of articles about outliners and knowledge tools. Very informative if you want to learn about software tools that help to think. He also published a detailed view into Frontier as its core application is supposed to become Open Source later this year.
Why we know…
Just for the record: Why We Know Iraq Is Lying (by Condolezza Rice, Jan. 23rd 2003)
Outage explained
My ISP moved his server farm from town to town today. During transfer the servers were not available. There also was an update in the domain name system – so even after the machines came back online after many hours, there are still problems with DNS pointing to the old IP number.
2D interface for spacial design
One of the most challenging issues for software user interface design is to provide a 2D surface to a 3D design space. SketchUp is some kind of sketching tool that seems to be full of ideas of how to solve this problem (at least it appears to be from the training videos).
Internet hypes
I started working on a list of Internet hypes. Do you remember any Internet hypes? Please add yours to the Wiki page.
Enterprise knowledge management with weblogs
Michael Angeles (UrlGreyHot.com) has published a presentation called “Supporting enterprise knowledge management with weblogs: A weblog services roadmap”. (Slides [4.6 MB PDF], Slides with notes [4.6 MB PDF]). It was presented at the Computers in Libraries 2004 conference in Washington: My talk proposed a roadmap for providing weblog-related information services and suggested approaches for dealing…
English or not
I ask myself if native English speakers ever wonder that it costs non-native speakers quite some effort to run an english weblog. Peter Baumgartner just posted some thoughts about this. He would prefer to write in German only because most of his readers seem to be German speaking. I also run a german weblog that…
Deutsche Bank Research against software patents
DB Research has issued a paper that claims software patents block innovation: A growing number of R&D-intensive businesses realises that licencing out their IP (intellectual property) can constitute a substantial share or their revenues, which in turn encourages innovation efforts. Bearing this in mind, one could be tempted to consider ever stricter IP protection regimes…
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