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September 08 casual searchWas talking with a friend about Frappr and it's visual interesting search metohds. and had a serepentidy finding at
a 'casual' media contents landscape, which presents indexed & semantic contents (definitions, related tags, pictures & related news) retrieved from various sources. the system parses definitions & related tags through wikipedia, while images originate from google image search. the contents are positioned randomly, to create a visualization that mimicks how people perceive & browse through reality.
August 02 Microsoft Ego TripAnd here is what is an Ego Trip can cause someone
this is how my blog looks like since today.
with windows slogan all over the place
how dare they treat thier users like that????
I'm about to find a new place, just am not sure now which one is mostly recommanded July 07 retrievrI didn't know what to expect when entered the retrievr site after few month of not visiting. then i was all excited about the feature of Search by Sketch. Now you can feed the site with a link to an image and get interesting results.. i choose the one just below:
Now, what RetrivR does is handing me a page with images that to some degree have similarity to my original image...for very long now, i wanted to perform a search by posting an image instead of words and letters, i see we are heading there... June 29 Drive of destructionA team of engineers from the Georgia Tech Research Institute has just finished a 3-year project in which they burned, crushed and chemically damaged hard drives, all in the name of national security.
After damaging the drives, they tried their best to read data from them. Their goal being to find the best way to wipe data from a drives to ensure that it cannot be read by an enemy.
Research Engineer David Maybury models magnetic
a data destruction circuit using 3D finite element analysis. (Georgia Tech Photo: Gary Meek) via newscientist June 28 Virtual destructionDavid Dessen’s work with VVVV {vvvv is a toolkit for real time video synthesis. It is designed to facilitate the handling of large media environments with physical interfaces, real-time motion graphics, audio and video that can interact with many users simultaneously} has been generating a lot of interest since the first appearance of his shell-like objects on the VVVV pages. With the launch of his own blog Sanch TV he displays a range of hugely impressive formal experiments, bursting with voluptuous curves and saturated color. It is proof not only of Dessen’s personal talent, but also of VVVV’s qualities as a production tool.
David Dessen’s Experimentations with some nice math surface and vertex shader Linear
Play around with the most beautiful Math surface destrukt
 Supa formula destrukt via generatorx June 23 reach beyond the screen-the next big things in the WEB  Anthony Aziz and Sammy Cucher
I was talking to a friend last night, about what might be the next thing in the Internet life? we both agreed that the new thing should come, for all what we have is not enough or not exciting anymore, as it was in the past, something of the thrill is gone. he had some very interesting concept and ideas, which i wish not to revel for now...who knows, some one might still it, but better yet, i hope somebody out there is working on this thing on these very moments. i don't want to sound mysterious and any how, the idea was flue and stayed with lots of questions that were left with no answer. but what i can say that it had to do with interaction between people! it will always have to people and their interaction and ways and means of increasing those two. anyhow this technology seen below, might it be a part of our daily use and interaction in the near future? I've shown it before, but I'm mentioning it again, for i found it exciting especially for someone who is not involved in all the cutting edge computer gaming and role playing - which millions and millions of people are addicted to. Maybe we should try to invert this development: instead of pushing reality into virtuality, we could let the virtual worlds bleed out into the three-dimensional physical existence. What happens when we enter in such an 'everted' space and infect it with the movements of our bodies? Could this space grow, mutate and decay, following some hybrid laws of actualised imagination? There is of course the semantic web, The "Sematic Web" is defined by Tim Berners-Lee of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as "an extension of the current web in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation." (ppt demonstration)  Visualising the Semantic Web
Jeff Pulver, the self-described futurist and entrepreneur is saying that the next big thing is Internet video. These days, though, he is most interested in companies that are allowing consumers to get the TV and video they want without turning to broadcast or cable providers.
Hyperfabric is a new interface that lets you reach beyond the screen. It's a very "touchable" surface, made out of an elastic-like fabric called "Hyperfabric". The screen warps like rubber, and can sense how hard your press it, where you press it, and you can even have lots of people using it at once. You really feel like you are going "through" the screen.
You can press, grab, twist, punch and play with the screen. It can even support your full bodyweight. The Hyperfabric screen is specially designed to communicate with a computer to generate interactive computer graphics, in realtime.
What this means is we can create beautiful, magical scenes. You can see sparks fly out of your fingertips. You can cast magic spells from your hands. You can press your face into the hyperfabric to release fairies, or stir up ghosts in the dead of night. via sensoryimpact
The electric forest
June 16 The myth of "keeping up"
June 06 web sites as graphs“Everyday, we look at dozens of websites. The structure of these websites is defined in HTML, the lingua franca for publishing information on the web.” Websites As Graphs.  via June 04 Blogging, the Nihilist Impulse"I see blogs as part of a unfolding process of ‘massification’ of this, still, new medium. What the Internet after 2000 lost is the “illusion of change”. The created void made way for large-scale, interlinked conversations through automated software, named weblogs, or blogs... Instead of trying to prove that blogs are, in essence, good, I have taken up the challenge to interprete blogs as nihilist vehicles. Nihilism is not a lifestyle or opinion but a condition in which (Western) societies find themselves. In the Internet context it is not evil, as Rüdiger Safranski suggested, but triviality that forms the drama of media freedom." Read all.
what I am observing is not only the massification of the Internet but a more generalized cultural move toward nothingness that expresses itself through the medium of the blog. Through the blog, we attain a complete and fatal condition, making our comments into the void, thereby affirming our existence while we also emphatically assert our distance from any situation we might act in. Kazys Varnelis
May 03 Wandering Scribe-Trying to silence the moon"'Feb, 2006. For the past five months I have been living alone in a car at the edge of the woods - jobless and homeless and totally unable to find a way out of it. I can't sing, I can't dance, I can't scream loudly enough, alI I can do is write. So here I am laying down tracks...hopefully the start of an online paper trail out of here"
"That big, bright, not-quite-full moon was in full flow last night, saying things I really did not want to hear! There all night, refusing to let me go - the perforated inside of my head lit up with uncomfortable truths, all splattered across it like stars. Tough night — cruel, heartless moon." posted by WanderingScribe @
via Plep, Ami Ben Basat April 29 Taxonomy of my RoomA Study in Roomology
"This graph is a taxonomy of my room: a classification, according to my own specifications, of all things in my room. . This taxonomy combines the inventory with the mental map, translated into an object oriented data-model. I would like it to capture the feeling of it as being my home, but that quality is, for now, beyond the means of my abilities in taxonomical expression. "
"Many people have acquired an on-line identity by maintaining a blog or by subscribing to a social network services like Friendster. These identities remain online while we are gone. I would like to have a web identity for my room as well, so I can visit it when I'm elsewhere. Perhaps I can then feel at home, while grinding away at the office; or if my friends make their rooms available online too, we can connect them & turn them into a house.
Personal rooms are rigidly psychogeographically engineered: in our room we are our own Cesar.. Can we understand the trigger of such a place-specific emotional response enough to be able to recreate it? Here is a relevant quote from AL pioneer Chris Langton: "The ultimate goal of artificial life would be to create 'life' in some other medium, ideally a virtual medium where the essence of life has been abstracted from the details of its implementations in any particular model. We would like to build models that are so life-like that they cease to become models of life and become examples of life themselves." If it's possible to grasp the soul of a room and make it available online, either as image or as text, we don't recreate space, we recreate experience. ...We are close to a factual representation of our house on the web, a MIT project like house_n, prototypes a dwelling that is constantly aware of where you are & what you are doing. A dreadful vision, but this sensor data can easily be published online as a continuously flowing feed; taxonomies of rooms, may not be able to express psychogeographical atmospheres, they need little effort to be published in a machine readable framework. All this data relates to each other. You can than query peoples room: "show me the e-mail address of all people with a green room, who live in the proximity of 5 kilometres, who are now behind the computer and have beer in the fridge"; 'they must be nice people'. But all the action is outwards here, manipulations on data representing physical objects; I want to move on to the inside world, move from theatre to literature, I want to share the invisible, I want to share sensibility, but how to express this...Perhaps this taxonomy reflects the way I want you to see me: perhaps this taxonomy is nothing but window-dressing. The artificial room has still to be built. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
coulkd that be the answer?
House_n
Most people live in spaces poorly tailored to their needs, and technologies for the home are too often irrelevant gadgets, meeting no fundamental need and developed out of context.
House_n research is focused on how the design of the home and its related technologies, products, and services should evolve to better meet the opportunities and challenges of the future.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers are investigating methods for merging new technologies with person-centered design. They are generating new ideas, technologies, and methodologies that support the creation of innovative products and services that satisfy the emerging and future needs of people as they live in their homes. To facilitate these studies, a unique "living laboratory" residential home research facility called the PlaceLab has been constructed near MIT.
Hundreds of sensing components are installed in nearly every part of the home, which is a one-bedroom condominium. These sensors are being used to develop innovative user interface applications that help people easily control their environment, save resources, remain mentally and physically active, and stay healthy. The sensors are also being used to monitor activity in the environment so that researchers can carefully study how people react to new devices, systems, and architectural design strategies in the complex context of the home.
The home is being occupied by volunteer subjects who agree to live in the home for varying lengths of time. While they occupy the facility they have no contact with researchers, and the laboratory has been designed so that data can be analyzed off the site. Researchers have the capability to monitor nearly every aspect of life in the home, particularly what people are doing and the interior and exterior environmental conditions. Tools for the semi-automatic annotation and pruning of data can aid researchers studying the enormous amounts of data that will acquired daily by the laboratory. The facility is managed as a multi-disciplinary shared scientific tool in the tradition of other scientific facilities developed to study unique environments such as telescopes, undersea vessels, linear accelerators, satellites, and remote inhabited communities in harsh environments such as the South Pole. Researchers in the fields of architecture, computer science, mechanical engineering, nutrition communications, user interface and product design, preventative medicine, social anthropology, and public health have expressed interest in developing studies that use the unique facility, which operates using an open submission process. The PlaceLab is being used to investigate the following questions about human behavior, among others:
*What influences the behavior of people in their homes? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
The Semantic Web is a web of data. There is lots of data we all use every day, and its not part of the web. The Semantic Web is about two things. It is about common formats for interchange of data, where on the original Web we only had interchange of documents. Also it is about language for recording how the data relates to real world objects. That allows a person, or a machine, to start off in one database, and then move through an unending set of databases which are connected not by wires but by being about the same thing. "This new Web will be capable of supporting software agents that are able not only to locate data, but also to “understand” it in ways that will allow computers to perform meaningful tasks with data automatically and on the fly that today must be done manually and episodically by computer users. Or, as summarized in a Scientific American article written by Berners-Lee, Jim Hendler and Ora Lassila in 2001, “ The Semantic Web is an extension of the current Web in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.” April 14 A9
it is where i start my endless Quest over the WWW it has some cool features, one of them is the possibility to have on the same page but the idea of creating a bookmark and a History of search is even more interesting Now what to do? My integrating with Google way of being is so strong, i dive and fly in it, with ease and creativity, why would i look for anything else? April 13 route map- 'subset of the Web'This article is so fascinating and demonstrate the complexity of flow of content and how we organize it, that no matter how much i tried to give only a glimpse over it, i found my self coping most of it, in here. "If it weren't for Google Desktop I'd be spending an inordinate amount of time looking for stuff I've written, and then forgotten what I'd named it. But Google Desktop doesn't do the whole job -- I often comment on others' blogs, in forums, in wikis and other places that most tools don't keep track of, and I can never remember where these important thoughts were placed. What we need is a web page that works kind of in reverse -- keeping track of everything we've 'sent out', in any online medium, regardless of where it ended up.
The closest analogy I can think of is a scrapbook, a place where we keep all our 'memories'. (imcluding: Posts to your own and others' blogs, wikis, forums, podcasts and other sites, Trackbacks to conversations on others' sites that your writing has instigated or which refers to you or your writing, RSS feed subscriptions, e-mail subscriptions, blogroll, your deli.cio.us, your flickr, your 'friends' or 'neighbours' lists, E-mails, chats and IMs you have sent or received, see all)
This massive aggregation would comprise ATSYCA (All The Stuff You Care About), a kind of super-memory or 'subset of the Web'. All this information needs to be 'virtually' organized in three different ways:
The first type of use, by subject (personal information taxonomy) needs a graphical layout organized according to the tableau at the top of the page, described in this earlier post, a landscape you could navigate from top level and drill down to as much depth as made sense, to organize all your ATSYCA/ATPYCA.
The third type of use (by context and connection) also needs a graphical format, but this time 'parsing' and linking all the content by what (and who) it was connected to, rather than by subject. It would present a 'route map' rather than a 'logical map' of this content. It might also allow you to drill down from a 'colloquium' level to a 'conversation' level to a 'thread' level of granularity, and would provide 'departure points' where you could add and simultaneously share content (by allowing you to 'publish to' and others to 'subscribe to' new departures and amplifications from any node on the map.
The result of both the first and third types of navigation could be (or at least include) what would effectively be 'collective intelligence' of a group, but the map would allow you to tweak it to your personal 'view', deleting or hiding content you didn't find valuable and adding personal annotations 'for your eyes only'. Although these taxonomic maps and routing maps (and perhaps tag clouds -- you know those things that show the prevalence of tags on a particular site by the size of the font of the tag name) might actually reside on a single web site, or your own hard drive, they could just as easily reside out in hyperspace, where you and others could access them anytime from anywhere, and where they'd be easy to update and maintain. There are some technical challenges to doing this (notably keeping 'public' web-hosted and 'private' hard drive-located content separate according to each user's personal permissioning rules), but the biggest challenges are likely to be imaginative: keeping the navigation 'Google simple', automating the update of the maps, and enabling interactivity of shared, published and subscribed content. But it shouldn't be that hard to create such an application. If we don't get a simple tool that can do this soon, we may literally start losing our minds. April 11 Putting the ‘We’ in the Webwhat is Web 2.0? everybody seems to be talking about it for ther past 2 year or so.
it can get very confusing for a simple user such as my self to grasps it's meaning, but with this article the evidence of what web 2.0 is all about is Crystal clear! it's all about us, the users- From “Putting the ‘We’ in the Web” article from Newsweek'-
“What was once the digital equivalent of a shoe box became a vibrant community built around photos and a vast collaborative effort to produce an infinite scrapbook...” "A more fitting description comes from Mary Hodder, the CEO of a social-video-sharing start-up called Dabble. (Since Dabble has not yet launched, I can't explain exactly what that means.) "This is the live Web," she says."
"Tim O'Reilly, an early promoter of the Web 2.0 idea, says, "The central idea is harnessing collective intelligence." Every time you type in a search query on Google, what's happening under the hood is the equivalent of a massive polling operation to see which other sites people on the Web have deemed most relevant to that term. Magically, it yields a result that no amount of hands-on filtering could have managed. "It's clear that the Web is structurally congenial to the wisdom of crowds," says James Surowiecki, author of a book ("The Wisdom of Crowds," naturally) That's why some people believe that an army of bloggers can provide an alternative to even the smartest journalists, and that if millions of eyes monitor encyclopedia entries that anyone can write and rewrite (namely, the Wikipedia), the result will take on Britannica."
"Less than a decade ago, when we were first getting used to the idea of an Internet, people described the act of going online as venturing into some foreign realm called cyberspace. But that metaphor no longer applies. MySpace, Flickr and all the other newcomers aren't places to go, but things to do, ways to express yourself, means to connect with others and extend your own horizons. Cyberspace was somewhere else. The Web is where we live. " NODENODE.London defines a season of celebration and acknowledgement of interest and engagement. It illustrates creative and experimental uses of communication media and technological innovation to express ideas and stimulate action in public. A Huge world to discover in it - i need more then 24 hours per day, or, i need to skip the sleeping phase all togather, too much to see, too much to learn, so many curious-creative-people out there that i want to meet their visions turnning real. April 10 Future-makingPrincess, i hope this one will answer you some of my visions and hopes about the future of web usage, it is taken from a fabulous and inspiring blog
"If we want to change the world, one of the most powerful things we can do is show how the future could be better. One of the most exciting forces for change these days is the speed with which people are making and sharing tools for doing just that.....Craft and experience still matter, chance still favors the prepared, and the demands on our attention drives an overall move towards the eye-grabbing, the witty and the viral, but the point remains: it has probably never been easier to do cultural activism.
We are becoming a culture of makers. Increasingly, we have it within our reach to become a movement of future-makers. " The author demonstrate beautifully a list of cutting edge tools that we all use in our every day life (such as Film, Digital Video, wireless technologies, Visualizations, Mapping, Games etc..) that we increasingly use today, and he pushes a little farther..
read ALL April 08 I Can Read your mindMIT Media Lab researchers have developed a device that "reads
minds" and alerts wearers to the emotional state of the person they're conversing with. The research team hopes the Emotional Social Intelligence Prosthetic (ESP)device will help people with autism learn to better read the social cues of... via kurzweilai April 06 The Future of the Web: Sir Tim Berners-Leefascinating, breathless hour-long talk (+Q&A) recently given by Sir Tim (mp3 & mp4, no transcript available). For the lazy, this recent interview covers much the same ground.
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