Group Outlines … an interesting idea …
This is a cool variation of Esthers article about the conference blogging. The idea that a group of people would build an over all conference outline in real-time … multiple people contributing to the construction of an outline of notes … is very cool. I like this idea of a new form of potential collaboration …
Masukomi sees a connection between instant outlines and conferences.
[Scripting News]
Human forms of real-time telemetry …
This is an excellent article with a prime example of the future implications of mobile/wireless networking and various applications. Esther is writing about what occurred at one of her conferences when some of the attendees were blogging in real time during the conference … providing real-time “telemetry” about the conference proceedings.
We started to do this type of things years ago at Novell when we would use Instant Messaging and Chat during internal road-map review meetings. A large group of us were able to multiplex between the presentations and our group anaylsis without generating verbal side conversations. This also allowed us to ask questions and opinions between the members of our team to minimize the need to interupt the speaker.
All of this culminated with an application that I wrote called LiVote … for Live-Vote … that was an experiment in allowing a group of people to see a group of questions about a presenter or their presentation. Under each issue is a slider that allows each person to “vote” on that issue and rate it between 0 and 10. Below each slider is a bar graph that shows the “average” rating of all of the voters. So I can now be giving real-time feedback on my opinions … to my team … and potentially to the speaker!
I have thought about completing this application in a way that could be utilized at future conferences. Maybe I’ll have to bring it back to life and touch base with Dan Gilmore about it … 😉
Esther Dyson on the connection between blogging and face to face conferences.
Faking videos … the future of “proof” and “evidence” …
I was recently at the Foresight Institute conference and saw a presentation by David Friedman. He was talking about the issues of technology and the justice system … and joked about the use of technology to create pictures and videos. (Visit this link and search for “Say It Ain’t So” …) As the technology evolves forward, it will be harder and harder to determine a “real” video from one that has been “created” … and this work is providing that we are already there. It is only a matter of time till we are going to be questioning more and more what we “see” with our own eyes!
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At MIT, they can put words in our
mouths
May 15, 2002
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MIT scientists have created the
first realistic videos of people
saying things they never said,
raising serious questions about
falsifying video and film images.
The MIT technology is the first that
is “video-realistic”: volunteers in
a laboratory test could not
distinguish between real and…
Growing interest in REAL digital identity …
After my experiences at Novell with digital identity, I quickly realized that it’s a tough vision to communicate without having the whole subject tainted with corporate profit making mentalities. What’s funny, is that those exact mentalities are what will prevent their architectures from ever being successful!
This is a very cool effort that I am going to be following, and that I am going to get involved in. Once digital identity moves outside of Novell, Microsoft, Sun, AOL, etc. it will be able to evolve in a more natural framework that mirrors reality.
RFC: Sponsored Feature Section on Digital Identity. I have a proposal for the site, that I’d like your comments and thoughts on. Jabber.com founder Andre Durand and ISPCON founder Phil Becker recently started a new website called DigitalIDWorld.com. K5er Adam Theo is also working with them, and thought that the subject of digital identity would be something other K5ers might have some interest in, and perhaps we could arrange some kind of syndication agreement. I talked to Andre and Phil a few times, and below is what we came up with. We all think it has a lot of potential, but as always, you make the final call as to what’s good for K5. So read on for the idea, and let us know what you think of it. [kuro5hin.org]
Still tough Wearable Computer marketplace …
I have been working with the new MA V form Xybernaut for a while now, and although I am impressed with the machine, I can see why Xybernaut is still experiencing problems. I know that ViA is supposed to be back in some form also … but it’s tough times for wearable computer vendors.
Xybernaut Slashes Workforce. Wearable device vendor Still expects growth [allNetDevices Wireless News]
And more on wireless networks …
Internetnews.com covers the public launches of Joltage and Sputnik: These companies are all about footprint. A thousand disparate hot spots are worth as much as a hotel chain? We’ll see.
Looks like the WiFi networks are really a growing business interest …
I love seeing these articles … we’re still playing with our network project … just yesterday we got our LDAP, Authentication, and Gateway servers up and running in Salt Lake City! We’ll see how our ideas roll …
Several folks tried to sell me as news Joltage’s plan for announcing their software rollout. I’m confused about this. The rollout may be news, but without a footprint and with two competitors (SOHO Wireless and Sputnik), I’m not sure if this isn’t marketing by press release. Eleven days ago, I wrote about all three companies.
More GPS and mapping software in Open Source …
There is more Open Source software appearing continuously that is experimenting with mapping and geographic visualization. This looks like one that has some nice features and capabilities. It is addressing 3D displays, and also the capabilites to access map data from sources that are being constantly updated. This last feature is one that I have been looking at for a while with some friends. It seems to me that I would want to be downloading and caching map data all the time as I travel and always be fetching the most up to date data … maybe even data that was created by friends or family!
gps3d 1.18. A GPS 3D visualization utility. [freshmeat.net]
Browsers still working on compatibility …
Lately I have been working with some very smart people working on browser user interface technologies. They have been teaching me huge amounts about the DOM standard, and the lack of browser compliance … or the differences in implementations. This is a good overview of some of the know issues …
Waiting for the DOM. Though great strides have been made towards the ultimate goal of a single DOM for all browsers, some implementation differences still remain. Guest author Kenneth Tibbetts provides some browser-specific scripting gotchas to watch out for. From the WebReference Update. 0315 [WebReference News]
Next generation cell phones …
This is a the coolest new cell phone that I have heard of! Wrist-watch cell phone, and it transmits the sound through the bones in your hand to your finger tip … so that you listen to the person you are talking to by putting your finger into your ear! Too cool …
Let Your Fingers Do The Talking [Nooface: In Search of the Post-PC Interface]