Archive for March, 2008
In Uncategorized on March 29, 2008 by amul84
In Uncategorized on March 29, 2008 by amul84
simulation based
social networking
bloging
video watching
social playlist mods
Euphoria based AI Flowchart + WebTemplates
Physics based Social WebBrowsing
| Euphoria by Natural Motion and Digital Molecular Matter by Pixelux. These two technologies promise to take gameplay to the next level by giving gamers a “simulation-based experience that changes every time the game is played.” What does this mean? You’ll never see the same tired animation over and over again. Damaged surfaces splinter, chip, break, and shatter differently every time. The environment feels more alive than ever. Now imagine playing in that as an uber Sith apprentice. Sweet. |
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In Uncategorized on March 27, 2008 by amul84
— Proflatic.. is the TOP dog vs Social Thing
Of course adoption and ease of use is key. With critcal Mass there could be some serious tracking going on here.
1. Video Aggregation and Filtering
2. News Aggregations
3. DigitalLife Aggregation
Auto Athenticate
Scrape Large Dataset for Value + Added layers from Community
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Launched way back in 2006, Profilactic is the daddy of social aggregators, not least because it’s notched up support for an astonishing 144 services. It also has a decent UI and some nice bits of functionality, including search and filtering of your ‘mashup’ (poor choice of label imo – too many other connotations). I also like the fact that it pulls in decent sized Flickr images rather than thumbnails, although I guess that’s just personal preference and others may feel they take up too much space. Perhaps Profilactic’s most compelling feature (now shared by newcomer socialthing!) is that it automatically draws on your friend lists from the services you add rather than forcing you to add them manually, which removes a massive barrier to take up. |
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In Uncategorized on March 25, 2008 by amul84
1. Remove as many barriers to Sign-Up as Possible
OPEN ID –
Myspace/Facebook/Google/Yahoo etc.
In Uncategorized on March 20, 2008 by amul84
– help people chat with each other… anyway possible.
- find similar, engage each other.. anyway possible.
– Allow user base Co-Creation capability.
In reviewing the dominant types of applications, it is clear that most of the applications are helping users achieve social goals such as improved communication, learning about the self relative to others, finding similar others, improving self-presentation, engaging in social play, and engaging in social exchanges via gifts and media…
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In examining each application, we spent some time with the reviews and the discussion topics, expecting that applications that were more active would have more posts by users. We found however that reviews were not reviews. Rather, the review section seemed to be largely used for users to communicate with application developers, giving their feedback and reporting bugs, and to each other about the application.
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| The reviews then became overloaded with demands for the user-to-user communication required to use the application |
| einforce the message that people come to social sites to be social, and will twist any application into an opportunity to communicate |
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In Uncategorized on March 18, 2008 by amul84
In Uncategorized on March 18, 2008 by amul84
Very cool scraping and transform service.
wonder if you could build a friendfeed – social networking aggregating bot from
1. Choose SocialNets
2. User Password Authentication
3. Choose Output Templates.
Can output templates be in the form of Flash MotionGraphics?
Ajax Scrollers
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Your favorite site doesn’t provide news feeds?
This free online service converts any web page to an RSS feed on the fly.
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In Uncategorized on March 18, 2008 by amul84
i remember this instruction technology apple os 9 had, it seemed to
1. Frame, Wrap whatever you were trying to learn with a Sequential Task Flow – A Learning by doing TOUR.
Now why can we do this for programming (flash/flexbuilder/textmate/rails/php)? or the digital arts (zbrush/maya/ae/illustrator etc.) or digital music mixing and composing (logic/live).
Apple Guide also offered a system for teaching users how to accomplish tasks in an interactive manner. However, the process of creating guides was more complicated than non-interactive help and few developers took full advantage of its power
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it would seem that “its too complicated to create interactive tutorials”
this interactive Ruby is perfect. Learning a new language can be Fun! and interactive. Shit learning anything is usually mired in frustration, pain and confusion. I suppose theres no avoiding that.
In Uncategorized on March 17, 2008 by amul84
I remember this site — Forgot to make a note of it.
Found thru
http://www.webappers.com
Another excellent webdev resource..
It has long been common practice to use recurring solutions to solve common problems.
Such solutions are also called design patterns. Collections of software design patterns are standard
reference points for the experienced user interface designer. This website seeks to better the situation
for the UI designer, who struggles with the same problems as many other UI designers have struggled with before him.
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UI-Patterns.com are not the first to create a UI design library. While other pattern collections are useful, they are far
from coherent and complete. The purpose of this site is over time to fill some of the gaps – especially by providing code examples
as to how how the different patterns can be implemented: to join theory with practice.
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In Uncategorized on March 16, 2008 by amul84
Code + Grids + Vectors + Random + Sequential + Repetition + Arrays + if/then/else/ Conditionals + Network’d Material (scrape) + Bots + Machine Learning.
And Chaos.
New York based artist and designer Joshua Davis, considered to be a pioneer of algorithmic graphic design, has developed a limited edition of computer generated unique prints based on the BMW Z4 Coup. The video shows footage of the ‘inspiration process’ for this project.
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In Uncategorized on March 16, 2008 by amul84
ACTIVITY for everything web 2.0.
facebook, myspace, bebo, flicker, digg, last.fm, twitter, tumblr, pownce, Amazon browsing, Blogs,
+ Browsing History
+ App usage
+ Map Usage
+ Credit Card Purchases (private filters on)
+ Snail Mail Arrivals (private filters on)
+ Auto Transcribe all Cell Phone Calls
1. Publish What I want. When I want to.
2. Get paid for referrers
3. Co-Create something New.
In Uncategorized on March 16, 2008 by amul84
Man, I’m a lazy motha – once I’m authenticated its over.
– Scrape it kid.
In Uncategorized on March 16, 2008 by amul84
1. Add IK Chain “puppeter’d” fingers on fret board so I can practice.
2. Easy peasy UI for vistors to co-create chord finger patterns
3. AUTO PLAY the music and Little Bubbles for the Finger Chrd Images
4. Add the ability to webCam along (im writing with apple air webcam is included..)
5. Export to Widget – Gigya/Clearspring Distrubution
6. Internal SocialNet for dev and Vistors
7. Leaderboard for Top Creators..
8. Gibson/Fender Sponsership… Attack of the Biz dev guys..
Songsterr is a service offering an extraordinary experience of playing, learning, and singing guitar on-line. Songsterr provides a realistic guitar sound and gives you a full control over the playback – it’s up to you to decide when it’s time to move to the next chord and to sing a new verse. All you have to do is press the button during playback when you feel it’s time to. Alternatively, you can use Songsterr’s autopilot mode and play the song without any interaction. |
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Service for beginner guitarists with instructions on finger positioning, strumming techniques, etc. |
| Service for songwriters with features to create and edit songs by writing lyrics, arranging chords, choosing patterns and rhythm. |
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In Uncategorized on March 16, 2008 by amul84
Authenticate to PULL ALL your
1. MYSPACE/FACEBOOK ASSETS/DATA
I don’t want to manually cross push the same shit – AUTO push and AUTO pull this stuff!
I trust this thing to make my life faster and easy’r. I wonder if I could scrape all this structured data and feed it into Mini-Networks based on “TASK-ORIENTED” flows.
All my Programming Task Flows.
My media consumption and opinion TaskFlows…
| We bring your friends into one interface, make it easy to post stuff back to the networks, and just in general, try to make social networking easier. |
| We ask you for passwords because rather than just grabbing feeds, we are working with the various APIs that exist. This is beneficial because then it allows us to aggregate things that feeds otherwise wouldn’t provide: private data, friend lists, etc. When you sign up for Socialthing! you may notice a different experience signing in to your del.icio.us versus your Facebook account. This is because Facebook’s API allows for what is called token-based authentication. To put it easy, when you want to use Socialthing!, Facebook gives us a “secret token” that allows us to work with the data in your account, without you having to give us your username and password. |
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In Uncategorized on March 14, 2008 by amul84
In fact, it seems that all browsers are SO in flexible.
The whole fucking web is inflexible to NON-Programmers.
Nothing is drag and drop.
I can’t grab this “div” and mashup things easily — Shit it takes a lot of learning and trail and error.
Mashing Up.
MultiUsers – Collaborative UI -
Revenue Sharing UI
CoCreating Revenue/Value
I mean. Of course all this mashing up – uses system resources. And may be inefficient but easy ways to do so — could be drive innovation.
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The World’s Most Dangerous Geek
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Justin Frankel, the man who popularized file-sharing, has even bigger plans
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Shoutcast, do-it-yourself
broadcasting software that let people “stream” their own audio over
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“I’d be giving power to people, and what
can be wrong with that?” |
Frankel created
Waste: a “private workspace,” as he calls it, that allows small
groups of friends to trade files without being as conspicuous as
those on the larger peer-to-peer networks. |
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future of the Internet itself. Does it become just a distribution
system for corporate product or more of a way to subvert that
corporate control? |
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In Uncategorized on March 14, 2008 by amul84
Logic.. Live — Online realtime..?
Photoshop/Flash/Ilustrator? live?
Anyone
Just finished a great recording session with the Trackrunners – we spent about 3 hours with them live, giving them ideas and feedback as they composed a new track. The Y! Live audience chose the topic (pickup lines, heh), and the Trackrunners put down the beats, melodies, rhymes right there as we watched. The result is a brand new mp3, available for you all to download – just head over to myspace.com/thetrackrunners and download the opening track, “What I Gotta Say.” Nice job Trackrunners, hope to see you guys on again soon. |
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In Uncategorized on March 14, 2008 by amul84
= for ecommerce, socialnets, blogtooling,
Alternativa Platform — simple and usable integrated dev tools, “world editors” and free resources to use in projects too. Every user (single human or a company) will be able to create its own personal 3D-world and tune it according to own preferences. We’re aiming to let talents grow, to allow developers making money, to give business a new opportunity promoting products and services through connected multi-user interactive services.
humm.. sounds yummy
The most important thing is that we don’t consider our project as a game anymore. Making a game, we were making a platform — powerful system which can be used to create games or any other multiuser media in the Net. Things that happened and following situation analysis led us to a new vision, more scaled and simple at the same time. |
Okay, “Alternativa” is a platform, which allow users to create, apply and support multiuser browser media in Internet. Platform includes server core (data exchange, synchronization, servers load management), client side (3D-engine, GUI and other client’s apps), admin tools (payment support, through user registration, statistics), documentation (”how to create and apply projects” guide, public methods and classes reference book etc.), support system (portal, forums, FAQ etc.), and of cource applications made on the platform. Part of this work is done already, part has to be done. |
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In Social Networks, lifestreaming, visualization on March 12, 2008 by amul84
So if one can setup a streaming service then it would seem that
1. Build a setup for personal space data encoding – bluetooth sensor grid for clothing and other outer ware.
2. Higher encoding – ccd array in the Car, house/apt and workplace.
Data Intreptation and relationship visualization services are next of course.
1. Pull up all my drunk days of last year -
- SHOW bank statements of those moments.
- CrossReference my weight gain? or how about what time I woke up the next morning?
| uStream.TV lets almost anyone with the right equipment and some gusto put together a live broadcasting network. uStream combines live video broadcasting via a Webcam with live IRC chat. Content makers can create their own channels, complete with customized branding and show description. |
uStream offers its users a range of ways to interact with show producers. They can rate and rank the show for promotion on uStream.TV’s front page and add it to their list of favorites. uStream also makes it possible for them to embed it on blogs, Web sites, and social-networking profiles. |
uStream isn’t just limited to live broadcasts. The service also lets people put together clips that can be watched and shared. It acts as an archiving service and a video-hosting tool similar to YouTube. |
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In Uncategorized on March 10, 2008 by amul84
Attaching a “Buddies using Photoshop” list to the Layers Pallet?
or..
Contextual – Based – Reveal/Publish from friends in your network..
for Music Software.
- Share chord maps – arp patterns – beats
YOUR NETWORK
Can you build your network via BOOKMARKLET or CSS x-Path selectors.. as you surf the web.
USE CASE EXAMPLE … your’re looking for answers to your actionscript problem.. Here is a killer BLOG roll of AS experts.
– GATHER A ROUNDTABLE – (expert socialNET)
1. go to each blog. – bookmarket/css xpath/scrape author
2. autogenerate a page with icons of each expert
3. create Comments/Forum/Threaded (PUBLIC or PRIVATE)
4. build a LIVE/STREAM
etc.
What bout Design or Art Related USE CASE.
Same thing BUT this time.. IN SOFTWARE ..
- A mini Browser via (webKIT) or some other opensource browser with in Adobe Apps/Apple Apps/Microso$t etc…
– a PLUG IN or sorts.
– with very LIMITED use cases and scope. SIMPLE. FAST. share/com
In Uncategorized on March 8, 2008 by amul84
2D multi-physics simulations
– Blog Scanning — RSS Reading — MP3 Mixing –
1 vs Time
Creative templating Engine for Web Based Resouces.. (text/media)
1 vs. 1
1 vs. 5 multi Creational -
1 vs 20 – Photoshop Tennis
Humm .. what bout
MP3 Mixing or VideoMIxing
1 vs 10 people at a time..
+ TIME BASED TICKER…
+ TIME RUNNING OUT SLIDER…
Contestants on the LEFT in QUE
Canvas in the MIDDLE –
MULTIMEDIA TOOLS on the RIGHT…
AUDIENCE ALL AROUND.
Fun with physics-based drawing |
Taking a different spin on things, Ume University’s Phun is “an educational, entertaining and somewhat addictive piece of software for designing and exploring 2D multi-physics simulations in a cartoony fashion.” Although it’s not a drawing tool per se, Phun mixes literalness with a measure of unpredictability. Check out this video of it in action. [Via Jerry Harris & Jim Geduldick] |
| ‘m much more excited about harnessing the platform to build much richer, more immersive, and (optionally) less predictable creation experiences. We can have the best of both worlds, and that’s what keeps me amped & in the game. |
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In Uncategorized on March 3, 2008 by amul84
Humm for you’re dataset of Stuff??Interesting..
Loomia Recommendations is a web service that lets any website provide personalized recommendations to their visitors. Loomia works with YOUR content on YOUR site to help users find what they are looking for.
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| Loomia provides personalized recommendations on sites featuring: |
- Online media such as audio, video, music and ringtones.
- Media goods such as CDs, DVDs, and books.
- Consumer retail products including electronics, fashion, and accessories.
- Listings for travel destinations, restaurants, concerts, movies, and entertainment.
- User-generated content including blogs, videos, photosets, playlists, software and more.
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In Uncategorized on March 3, 2008 by amul84
Makes me wonder
1. Why don’t we a Social Based “website Deconstruction” studies
2. Music/Art Deconstruction social sites
Or for that matter..
Any Collaborative – Group Based
3. Social Based Software Learning or Tutorial Creator Sites?
Humm..
| 43 Things : A Community Study |
43 Things was founded by former Amazon.com developers who built off their prior experience working with Amazon’s recommendation systems.
In fact, according to an article in “The Deal.com”, 6 out of 7 of the company founders worked on the team that developed Amazon’s recommendation and personalization engines. These seven guys named their company The Robot Co-op. They also created 43 Places and 43 People, which run parallel to and are partially integrated with 43 Things. 43 Places allows users to list 43 places they want to visit and 43 they have visited, while 43 People allows users to create a list of 43 people they want to meet and 43 they have met. |
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In Uncategorized on March 2, 2008 by amul84
HolyShit
this is fucking crazy. It almost sounds like the greatest web services mashup ever.
1. Scrape
2. Redesign data
3. Widget it
4. redistribute the Scraped data..
I’ve been participating in the SproutBuilder beta. This app frickin rocks the heavens. A total flex playground for whipping up sweet widgets in minutes. The interface is amazing, and it totally empowers me and that I love. I makes me feel like I can do anything I can think of. |
I started out making basic RSS feeder type widgets and then I was like.. what else can I do? I remember seeing something about dapper.net and how you could use it to snag content and play with it on the web. I’ve been playing PMOG lately and there’s a page on the site that shows latest events but its strangely not RSS able. Every time you want to see what’s new in the game ya gotta load up that page. Screw that, sounds like a job for dapper – let’s scrape the page! |
Take that bit of code, slap it into sprout, mix it up and presto… |
| I used AideRSS on my feed, its a nice fine tuner tool for blog feeds, and then I assembled the widget in Sprout. |
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In Uncategorized on March 2, 2008 by amul84
Wow, another Widget distrubution — THINK autopost to all socialNet
1. Automate Auto posting
2. Multiple Social Network widget Posting
3. Multiple Blog Network Posting ..
Found them through SPROUT – by far the coolest flex app around.
very similar to dashcode? or a Designer oriented Widget creator
