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Re: A social namespace (Scripting News)

factoryjoe — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:56:59 -0000

Fair enough. Twitter certainly has momentum, and that's hard to argue with. One challenge, then, is to extract the essence of what's happening on Twitter to enable these activities to happen between different silos. Of course it seems to always be the case that the silos come first, develop the user experience and cultural norms, and then there are clones, and then someone comes along and adds value by breaking down the silo walls... so it will probably be with Twitter too, but for now there's just too much value in participating in their arena to allow an independent channel (say StatusNet or FriendFeed) to compete on mere technology alone.

I'll think about what it would take to get the data constructs you've outlined here into Portable Contacts all the same.

Re: A social namespace (Scripting News)

factoryjoe — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:54:48 -0000

Hi Dave,

I'm curious, as Tom Morris suggested, how this differs from the Portable Contacts effort that's already gained widespread support in OpenSocial? It defines a straight-forward approach to syndicating contact information in JSON using a combination of the vCard and OpenSocial schemas. Everything that you've proposed here (except "xSocial:userStatuses" and "xSocial:userFollowedBy") are covered by prior art.

I'm thinking you might see faster adoption in the marketplace by leveraging this existing work? Perhaps you could suggest areas of improvements for Portable Contacts that would enable you to do what you want to do?

Re: TC50: FluidHtml builds a more web-friendly version of Flash

factoryjoe — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:04:17 -0000

Uh, it's called HTML5 and it's patent and royalty free.

Re: Tease! Tease! Tease! (Scripting News)

factoryjoe — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:31:03 -0000

Swell, thanks! Will read up.

Re: Tease! Tease! Tease! (Scripting News)

factoryjoe — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:05:42 -0000

Ah, I guess I wasn't asking for history so much as technical differences. Of course the problem with most technologies is interoperable adoption, so it'd be nice to either protocol gain adoption and enable a better P2P push-based infrastructure to rise up.

Re: Tease! Tease! Tease! (Scripting News)

factoryjoe — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:00:42 -0000

I plead ignorance, but how does this compare/relate to PubSubHubBub? I presume this is just another flavor of the exact same thing?

Re: Game design, the secret to reconstructing capitalism.

factoryjoe — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:09:26 -0000

Hmm. But that's like including the word you're defining in your definition... How can you achieve good design if it requires a game "wrapped in a user-friendly design"? That's kind of the problem that I want to solve! ;)

Re: APPLE TABLET: Ultimate Gallery of Concept Designs and Prototypes

factoryjoe — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:06:32 -0000

Sweet. Thanks for the change, Pete!

Re: APPLE TABLET: Ultimate Gallery of Concept Designs and Prototypes

factoryjoe — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:06:26 -0000

Please correct your attribution of the Apple iPad concept. I created this mockup in 2007 and that user posted my mockup as though he/she created it. See my original post:

http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/11/05/apple-tab...

Re: New design of dougbelshaw.com

factoryjoe — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:43:39 -0000

Thanks for the write up — all in all, I think the results speak for themselves. I'm always flattered when people find inspiration from my work (it's happened before) but part of the point of design is to communicate something originally, and to really consider what the colors, shapes and words all mean when put together.

Simply taking someone else's design is kind of like putting on their clothes and thinking that you're still yourself! You really want to make your own homepage and blog represent you — and your vision of the world. It's perfectly reasonable to start with ideas and designs that you like and use for inspiration, but it really gets interesting (for you and other people!) once you add your own aesthetic style to the mix.

Re: What Spotlight search might look like according to... - the michael galpert tumblelog*

factoryjoe — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:42:47 -0000

Ha! Yeah, you're right. It was a 5 minute mockup -- it'd be cool to
see other people's ideas for an Apple search engine!

Re: What Spotlight search might look like according to... - the michael galpert tumblelog*

factoryjoe — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:29:12 -0000

What do you think? I am off-base? Gone nuts? C'mon — it would make SO much sense — from a branding/service perspective (ignoring the technology challenge).

Re: Parsing @chrismessina and @marshallk

factoryjoe — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:50:40 -0000

Thanks for this Jake. As I talked to my girlfriend about this stuff, it became clear that I'm personally wrestling with a lot of competing issues, and it's not even altogether clear to ME what needs to happen...! I can sense that there's a problem here, but haven't yet figured out the solution — at least one that is easy to use but that can also be used widely, with little education involved (i.e. NOT setting up your own domain).

I do think that the idea of bounding search to a known universe is useful from the user-search perspective; I also think that search that's in relationship to something or someone else can be useful (i.e. "The Chris Messina on Twitter", or "The Chris Messina in San Francisco", or, "Chris Messina, my brother-in-law", etc). People remember people through associations, and until those kinds of relations are surfaced through the web, I think that this loose approximation of identity will persist and remain popular.

Re: @lazytweet How do you create a hashtag to be a "live" url in a tweet?

factoryjoe — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:42:40 -0000

Hmm. You really can't unless you use a desktop app like Tweetie or Tweetdeck.

Re: Lazyweb: good app for iPod touch to sync with google cal, ie store info locally and sync both ways when connected to wireless?

factoryjoe — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:42:28 -0000

I use SpanningSync (SpanningSync.com) with great results. It's not free, but it was worth the price of admission.

Re: what is a good/great RSS reader for mac? #lazyweb #mac #osx #rss

factoryjoe — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:04:51 -0000

I use NewsFire, but Vienna is a good, free alternative, as is NetNewsWire.

Re: Microsyntax.org: A Messifesto

factoryjoe — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:46:07 -0000

Tiny URLs are the zip files of Twitter. I doubt we'll see much more compression than that!

Re: Why Didn't PubSub Become Twitter?

factoryjoe — Wed, 13 May 2009 12:57:56 -0000

I completely, 100% disagree.

SMS is still the only universal API for getting data from any phone into web services... and furthermore, is the only API that stands up when WiFi/Edge/3G networks go down or experience service interruption.

It's also increasingly necessary from an international perspective (that is, I might tweet by SMS when roaming, but I'm certainly not going to roam on data).

While it's true that phones are becoming more capable as publishing tools, I think that the network is still a great limitation on what we're able to do with these devices.

Re: Why Didn't PubSub Become Twitter?

factoryjoe — Wed, 13 May 2009 09:10:02 -0000

Yeah, I'd agree that SMS penetration is what made Twitter. Laptops are too clunky to get out to post 140 characters — but using a phone is perfect — especially since everyone has one. Once we finally got to the point where everyone could use their phones to send text messages did the preconditions for Twitter to exist.

Oh, and it was no longer just a nerdy thing to use online social networks, likely thanks to MySpace making it culturally "cool" to have a web profile.

Re: #lazyweb Anyone know of an automatic mp3 tagger, similar to Shazam, that would work on my mac? Too lazy to type in by hand via iPhone app!

factoryjoe — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:56:29 -0000

You should try SongGenie (http://www.equinux.com/us/products/songgenie/in...) or MagicTagger (http://www.magictagger.com/)

Re: #lazyweb Anyone know of an automatic mp3 tagger, similar to Shazam, that would work on my mac? Too lazy to type in by hand via iPhone app!

factoryjoe — Sun, 03 May 2009 06:50:25 -0000

Try SongGenie: http://www.equinux.com/us/products/songgenie/in...

Re: Brittany Bohnet

factoryjoe — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:56:15 -0000

I totally became a fan of cuddling on Facebook. And then mildly regretted it. Cat's outta the bag now!

Re: Tag Synonyms

factoryjoe — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:09:31 -0000

Sure. I totally get that. You can't totally prevent spam, but the difference with just abusing hashtags is that it doesn't define anything — it still requires people to follow the spammer or search for the hashtag.

Let me put it another way... I presume that tag equivalency and linking will allow me to search for "#pigpox" and get results tagged with "#swineflu". That seems really useful! However, unless there is a reliable method to prevent abuse, prevent incorrect linking, deal with words with multiple meaning (i.e. is "trade" related to #stocktrade or #baseballtrade, etc?)... it seems that this could cause some confusion?

That said, I think curation is the right way to approach this — by creating system-level admins that can do this linking... and if you have a system that learns over time, perhaps explicit mappings will be primarily useful for emergent trending words (that a computer can't deduce as being related to something else) or for terms that should be related but aren't yet. And so on.

Eager to see how this is implemented though!

Re: Tag Synonyms

factoryjoe — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:45:02 -0000

Do you have any notion about authority here? Seems like someone could take a popular tag and abuse this... i.e. "#swineflu = #viagra" etc.

Re: Lazytweet: Never been much of a Radiohead fan, but I dig 'In Rainbows'. Which album should I carefully listen to next?

factoryjoe — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:33:39 -0000

I'm a huge Radiohead fan, but given your stated preferences, I'd suggest Amnesiac next and then perhaps Kid A.