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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)

jystervinou — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:30:32 -0000

http://jy.typepad.com/jy/2009/07/pubsubhubbub-r...

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

dave — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:08:18 -0000

http://rsscloud.org/walkthrough.html

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)

dave — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:02:27 -0000

Th'other way around. rssCloud has been around since 2001.

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.

tdavidson — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:21:22 -0000

Good catch, it is a bit of a recursive thought.

As you know, the problem you're looking to solve isn't just design, but how to structure, guide and incent the collaboration of the masses, with the recognition that some centralization ("benevolent dictatorship") is necessary.

It's a tough conflict I've been fighting through in my mind as well, although you've been dealing with it much deeper and longer than me.

I just believe we can learn some lessons in bridging open/closed systems by understanding game mechanics. I'll admit it's a bit of a stretch, but stretches are fun :)

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*

michaelgalpert — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:25:29 -0000

i dont think u are off base. but i do think u could have tried harder
on the mockup ;)

my prediction is that apple buys friendfeed and goes after the social
content search space.

re schmidt he already had to step out of room everytime they discussed
the iPhone stuff and now as u pointed out they don't distinguish bt
mobile computer and notebooks he serves no purpose to apple if he
can't actually sit in on a board meeting.

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

jakelevine — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:56:30 -0000

Thanks for the response Chris. We're totally in agreement here. The problems are big and the solution is anything but straight forward. What's important is that people like you and Marshall are getting out in front of the issues and bringing awareness to what I think is one of the most important transformational shifts of our online generation. I look forward to seeing how this conversation unfolds, and to hopefully one day being a part of that solution.

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?

dromescu — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:28:49 -0000

I agree with Chris, SMS - Short Message Service is the most use asynchron/synchron messaging in the world on mobile space. I used SMS more like 15 years for messaging, machine2machine communications, Alerts systems, advertising a.s.o
Why text messages are limited to 160 characters.Where is the Truth, here http://tr.im/kn1m or here: http://tinyurl.com/c5ko6c ...

Re: Why Didn't PubSub Become Twitter?

sull — Wed, 13 May 2009 13:11:11 -0000

my saying "unnecessary" was a poor choice of words. my thinking on this is that as we move forward, the data networks should improve while more people have phones equipped with publishing apps.
i also was broadly referring to the trend of twitter... that is now so big and not nec as centric to mobile devices as it was when it started as a status update service. now, we have a plethora of desktop apps and the website itself is improving.... and it's gone mainstream.
so, SMS is still an important component, especially for the reasons you mentioned. but a larger percentage of users will not use SMS on twitter.
when i said that "SMS is not a driving force anymore", i meant in the context of twitter specifically.