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diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Mon/ajax-flash.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Mon/ajax-flash.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6ea0ea5 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Mon/ajax-flash.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +It sounded like the panel-most-likely-to-start-a-real-life-flame-war, so I dropped in on the Flash versus Javascript talk this afternoon to try and gain a sense of where web developers stand on the issue these days. + +The panel had a lone moderator, Jonathon Boutelle of [uzanto.com][1]. Boutelle's angle was that to create truly compelling sites developers need to take advantage of both AJAX and Flash technologies. + +A quick audience survey showed that the room was pretty evenly split between AJAX and Flash developers, which played well with Boutelle's messages that you don't have to choose between the two. As Boutelle quipped, "Flash doesn't kill people, people kill people." + +That said, Boutelle's first slide was entitled "Keep Flash on a Leash," which seems to be the general direction of online apps these days -- Flash as a kind of "nugget," to use Boutelle's term. In this case Boutelle described using Flash to embed fonts and vector graphics which is difficult to do in other languages. + +So rather than the competitive environment I was expecting Boutelle spoke of a programming environment in which developers will increasingly become AJAX-Flash crossover programmers comfortable in both and aware of the strengths and weakness of each. + +Speaking of flame wars, I've noticed a pretty healthy mix of Mac and Windows OS (overwhelmingly still XP on the Windows boxes) among conference attendees, glancing around the panels usually puts things at about 50/50. I've yet to see anyone using Linux, though I have no doubt many are. + +[1]: http://www.uzanto.com/ "Uzanto"
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\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Mon/mag.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Mon/mag.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d39fdb1 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Mon/mag.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +The Future of the Online Magazine panel proved to be by far the most entertaining session I've attended here at SXSW. Sean Mills from [The Onion][2] joined Ricky Van Veen of [College Humor][1], Laurel Touby of [Media Bistro][3], and Joan Walsh, Editor in Chief at [Salon][4]. Van Veen and Mills quickly descended into a friendly and totally hilarious sparring match of wits about their competing sites. + +But amid the ribbing and jokes, serious issues were broached as well. The general consensus among the panelists seemed to be that online magazines will replace printed content at some point, though Mills pointed out the the print version of the Onion belies that somewhat and has continued to expand into new markets. + +Salon of course defended the paid premium content model with Walsh claiming that nearly 25 percent of Salon's revenue comes from membership purchases. Most of the others seemed to think that freeing up the content and generating revenue via ads is the way of the future -- so very web 2.0 of them. + +Unsurprisingly everyone agreed that Flash-based "magazines" which try to imitate the reading experience of a magazine are a very bad idea. The magazine as website is obviously a more user-friendly model and the general consensus was that audience participation and blogs were the burgeoning areas of growth on magazine sites. + +None of the panelists seemed particularly keen on a Digg-like approach to audience participation and no one seemed to think that was what their readers wanted. After all if you're seeking unedited writings there's always blogs. What distinguishes most magazine sites from a run of the mill blog is precisely that editorial oversight that readers have come to value. + +At one point the panel took a highly surreal turn when an audience member (who was I believe part of the collegehumor staff) stepped up to the mic and launched into a very Andy Kaufmanesque question/tirade. Definitely the liveliest panel I've sat through. + + +[1]: http://collegehumor.com/ "College Humor" +[2]: http://www.theonion.com/content/ "The Onion" +[3]: http://www.mediabistro.com/ "Media Bistro" +[4]: http://www.salon.com/ "Salon"
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\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Mon/microformats.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Mon/microformats.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cd8ad73 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Mon/microformats.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ + + +AUSTIN, Texas -- The burgeoning city of Austin blows open its doors on Friday for its annual media convergence megafest. Over the next 10 days, this vibrant cultural blip in the heart of Texas will host tens of thousands in the first carbon-neutral incarnation of the 21-year-old South by Southwest. Yee-haw. + +The three-pronged music, film and interactive components of the festival offer an endless panoply of panels, performances and parties that even New York and Los Angeles would be hard pressed to match. There are more than 150 panels, 200 films and 1,400 music acts at some 60 venues. + +This year, SXSW is taking advantage of the growing trends of user-generated content. Conference organizers literally turned over panel selection to the community: Visitors to the SXSW website could vote on event topics and suggest speakers through an automated tool. + +Interactive Festival event director Hugh Forrest, says SXSW "received incredible panel ideas" from the crowd. So much that "the bulk of programming for the 2007 event" came to them from website votes. + +Of course, music is the big ticket at the event, and the Austin Convention Center, parking lots, parks and venues will be jam-packed with acts ranging from new sensations like Amy Winehouse and Cloud Cult to old standbys like the Buzzcocks and David Byrne. + +But don't forget the interactive and film festivals, which attracts plenty of digital creatives and technology entrepreneurs, along with its share of geek celebs, from comedian and web designer Ze Frank to Sims creator Will Wright and Worldchanging's Alex Steffen. Google will host a panel about why XSLT is sexy, and Bruce Sterling gets to rant on stage about SXSW. + +"SXSW is an interesting show for web developers since it brings the geeks out of the pure-geek conference circuit, and mixes them in with designers, filmmakers and musicians," says Marc Hedlund, founder of the internet banking site Wesabe and a panelist on "Barenaked App: The Figures Behind the Top Web Apps." + +Normal fans -- who can't afford the A&R vacation lifestyle of many of the attendees or are otherwise unable to travel to south-central Texas -- can get a good dose of the festival online and through DIRECTV's eight hours of daily showcase programming (available on channel 101) during the music portion of the festival, running March 14 through 18. Independent television station ME TV (channel 15) offers impressive insight into the local music culture and will be streaming online content throughout SXSW. + +Similarly, radio station KUT (90.5 FM) is the go-to source to hear the many local bands, and will be reporting extensively throughout. SXSW's web site offers a toolbox of useful online and mobile apps, best of which is a free 3.1-GB bitorrent download with singles from most of the participating bands. + +Plus, SXSW Film Festival producer and wunderkind programmer Matt Dentler blogs daily with the deep inside. + +Stay tuned for daily news from the festival, in Listening|Post. diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Mon/microformats2.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Mon/microformats2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ab5d619 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Mon/microformats2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +geotags as a microformat + +hcards, + +Microformats were born at SXSW four years ago and while they remain somewhat of a geek-only tool, judging by the packed house at the Growth and Evolution of Microformats panel, the communitiy's interest is piqued. By far the largest panel I've attended, moderator Tantek Çelik creator of Microformats kicking things off with a history of microformats through t-shirts. Using a number of different company promotional tees Çelik slowly hurmously stripped his way through the birth and history of microformats. + +For those that aren't familiar with microformats, they are essentially just name spaces within html that tell machines how to handle information. The classic example is the hcard syntax which mirrors the common vcard syntax, but wraps it in HTML. + +It might sound complicated and indeed describing microformats is often much harder than using them. In fact there's a good chance you already have some microformat data on the web. If you use popular sites like Flickr or Upcoming much of that data is in microformats. + +But creating microformats isn't the point, the point is using them and to that end panel member Michael Kaply showed off his Firefox plugin, Operator, which makes it easy to use microformats. Once installed Operator auto-detects various microformats and can then do useful things with them. For instance all of the panel and event data on the SXSW site has microformat info on the page. Attendees with Operator (or similar) installed in their browser can auto add panelists contact info to their address book and send event schedules directly to Google or Yahoo calendar services. + +Combine that with some SMS notification from your calendar services and you've discovered how the uber-geeks always knows what's happening and where. + +Glenn Jones of Magdex then showed some web app prototypes that integrate microformats into social networking sites, including a way to aggregate online profiles and import then into a single repository. Unfortunately those tools aren't available yet, but anyone with numerous online profiles will probably appreiciate such services when they arrive. + +Other highlights included a rundown of microformat search engines and a list of popular sites that are using microformats. As I mentioned above, if you're using Flickr you already have an hcard available for the world to use. + +One demostration from a Technorati employee (unfortunately I didn't catch his name) showed how the Firefox plugin lkadsfj can be used to discover say and hcard with contact data and then send that data via bluetooth to your cellphone. sweet. + +Microformats are unique in that usually when someone is creating a format or outlining code for something totally new whereas with microformats are dealing with information that already exists on the web, but could be organized better + +Microformats search engines: edgeio uses hlisting to aggregate craig's list type of data. + +Technorati kitchen: + +Tantik said something that cuts to heart of why many geeks hate MySpace, the content is trapped at the URL there's no way to use that data across the web + +hcard and openid openid2.0 may contain a way to exchange profiles and hopefully rather than reinventing the wheel, the openid folks will adopt vcard or hcard. + +Microformats are actually quite simple to use, for instance here is mine. + +GRDDL has come up twice now. + +Eventful one of the early adoptors of microformats + +Frances Berriman Volume +Michael Kaply IBM +Glenn Jones Creative Dir, Madgex +Tantek Çelik Chief Technologist, Technorati
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\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Mon/reboot.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Mon/reboot.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8ca5fd5 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Mon/reboot.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +<img alt="Any_key_3" title="Any_key_3" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/any_key_2.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />The Morning Reboot does not mess with Texas: + +* Earlier this week Google [rolled out a new version of its Picasa Web Albums service][1]. The update adds search functionality and easier sharing via e-mails, IMs and websites. Storage space has also been increased to 1GB with available paid storage options for up to 250GB. + +[1]: http://picasa.google.com/intl/en_US/web/whatsnew.html "Picasa Upgrade" + +* Turkey [lifted][2] its [YouTube ban][3] yesterday. + +[2]: http://www.smh.com.au/news/Technology/Turkey-Lifts-YouTube-Ban-After-Two-Days/2007/03/10/1173166996611.html "Turkey Lifts YouTube Ban After 2 Days" +[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/03/turkey_vs_youtu.html "Turkey vs. YouTube" + +* Last week the RIAA announced that that instead of filing lawsuits against student downloaders, it would give them the option to pay a flat fee. At the time details were slim, but now 50 students from Ohio University are being told to [pay $3,000 or else face a lawsuit][4]. + +[4]: http://www.columbusdispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2007/03/08/20070308-C3-00.html "50 students at OU asked to pay $3,000 each in pirating case" + +* More bad news for Yahoo. AT&T [reportedly][5] wants to renegotiate its longstanding deal with Yahoo. The telecom giant has been selling broadband DSL service under the joint AT&T-Yahoo brand name for five years. + +[5]: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17538030/ "Yahoo feels the pressure of AT&T alliance"
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