About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
Back from SXSW 2006, J Wynia and I grabbed a morning tea and talked about:
A 10th Grade class in Sobriety High down the street in Edina made a video for Jonathan Coulton’s ‘Mandelbrot Set’.
Aside from being a brilliant project, making videos for JC is a an excellent way to get through Minnesota winters. I should know.
So says, My Personal DNA Report.
Deutsche Bahn…I have such fond memories of the DB. Like the time I caught a trip from Hamburg to Hannover on St. Niklaus Day – and the conductor’s passed out apples w/the DB logo grown into them. Ahhh, German hospitality.
Wall of Death
Jen, “Can I do it?”
No argument here.
“Awe, you don’t get to drive?”
Roadblock – Find Roaming Gnome
Ha! Jen says I have better luck than she does, so I’m doing it. Gnomes are funny. Especially the beer making ones (those are Belgian, not Travelocitizen).
Actually, Eric & Jeremy could have rented their German.
Detour – Break it or Slap it
We have to break it. As Jen says, “You have less than no rhythm.” Breaking bottles over each other’s head sound like a damn good time. And looks hilarious. Especially with Lederhosen-clad dancers circling you.
Garrick’s Favorites
Another day, another MacLeod (the word I’m using to describe my heavy-handed, Hugh MacLeod-inspired imagery).
How many login/password combinations are you (or your browsers) remembering?
Aside from the security issues inherent in having multiple keys around the web, each login/pass is another barrier to adoption, integration, usability, and usefulness.
Customers are the silo, not publishers – application or otherwise.
Great conversation with J Wynia on this topic this morning. The point is, we all have the ability right now to hold, serve, and control our own data. Fifteen minutes into the future, we won’t be adding information to services – we’ll be pointing our own urls to them.
Trackbacks & tags, trackbacks & tags. This is where EdgeIO is pointing to the future. Aggregators and other services pulling in distinct tags, basically taking ownership of a word. While authors still own their original posts. The opposite of Technorati.
I predict the next internet-enabled application to capture our imagination will have no AJAX, Flash, what-have-you. It will be so minimal, so basic, so straight-forward, it’ll make Google.com’s interface feel complicated.
On a related note:
“Here’s betting that ‘Web 2.0’ is what we’ll call the next crash.” – Doc Searls
A while back, I played around with Amazon’s ECommerce Services to spin out RSS feeds for wishlists – the result was the highly flakey and slow WishRSS.
Today, Amazon announced RSS feed for wishlists exists by default.
Yea! Now I can cross a rebuild of WishRSS off my list of Things To Do. Nice. Gotta love delegation.
Maybe it was:
Either way, the above MacLeod got stuck in my head this morning.
I quickly searched GapingVoid.com for anything similar. Came up empty.
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