‘Supposedly, Cal told Matt Biddulph last summer something to the effect of: APIs are old hat; it’s all about hackable hardware now. For me, it’s increasingly about the implications of that: the Web everywhere powered by flowing data. We have much to think through, privacy, usability, identity, collaboration, quiet time, how much auto discovery we actually want in our lives, how we manage and redefine sociality in light of what is possible. I don’t even have good pointers or the semblance of an idea for you yet, but I just wanted to prod us all into thinking about more than browsers (even those on phones) and start thinking more about connective tissues and experiences enabled between people, places & things.’
Brian uses words like ‘bumfuzzle’ and ‘jot & tittle’ which sounds a lot like something my wife thinks I might say but I never have. Certainly not when talking about branded social networks which is causing Brian to froth about ‘banana moonpie’ and ‘vapid booterism’.
His post is worth a read, though I disagree with his conclusions and think there is still a lot brands can do in the social network space, if only they’d start thinking more about their ‘metric assload’.
Ok, it’s Sunday, I’m in Barcelona, I’m in the office, I’ve just eaten fish and chips from an English chippy and I’m pitching ideas to myself.
Me: ‘Hi mister internet TV commissioner’
Suit: ‘Hello Spanish chippy man’
Me: ‘You read the blog?’
Suit: ‘No’
Me: ‘Are you sitting down?’
Suit: ‘You can see that I’m sitting down’
Me: ‘I’m nervous, I talk when I’m nervous’
Suit: ‘Talk’
Me: ‘A live show about Yahoo Live’
Suit: ‘Get out’
Me: ‘Yes’
I’m a little transfixed by Y! Live, currently I’m watching awecast which if you’re reading this at any other time than 17.09 on February 10th 2008 will no longer be out of focus ballet with a Christmas backdrop.
But as proof of awecast’s awesome routines, herewith a screenshot of the commentary, taken totally at random… really.
If you’re reading my recent 2 minute critique of Yahoo Live at any point that isn’t right now which is 16.31 on February 10th 2008, then chances are none of what I’ve written will make any sense and Gaston’s pre-pubescent yearnings will seem odd, whilst Amber is probably living in a safe house in Slough, or auditioning as the new face of Cover Girl or appearing on Web Celebrity Life Swap, which I just made up, but by the time you read this may well be a live show on Yahoo Live starring me also.
But to prove the live soliciting of teenage flesh did occur, I’ve taken the liberty of adding some screenshots showing Amber and the other one. I failed to get a screenshot of a young male user called Titi.
Yahoo Live is a new experiment from the Advanced Products teams at Yahoo, it says so on their blog. It also says this:
‘Y! Live was dreamed up as a way to make it possible for anyone to create their own live video experience. Broadcast the concert you’re at. Webcast your own live DJ set. Lifecast. Build your own live video speed dating application.’
I’ve given this 2 minutes of my time, adhering to the strict rules of the 2 Minute Critique and so far ashleymarie, which turns out to be two heavily made up ladies in a suburban bedroom, are being asked to reveal more of their breasts whilst being solicited for sex by French men.
Ok update, this is live you know, someone, I think Gaston Lagaffe, has accused half of ashleymarie who is really called Amber of being an ‘ogre’ and of possessing an ‘adam’s apple’.
Eek, this is addictive, Amber and the other one are sisters and they have ‘huge noses’ (their words, not mine), ok I’ll embed it now.
Yesterday MobileMonday announced the 25 nominees for its Barcelona Peer Award. The selection of the winning mobile startup will take place during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain in ten days on February 11, 2008. The nominees for the award represent early stage and emerging start-up companies from 25 different world cities. We’re reprinting the list here because some really cool, mostly unknown startups have been nominated and given how big we think the mobile web will be this year, any one of these companies could make a huge splash in 2008.
PMOG, which stands for Passively Multiplayer Online Game, is a Firefox extension that turns web browsing into a multiplayer online game. The service is currently in private beta, so details are scarce. However, the company has posted the following description to wet our appetites…
“PMOG is an infinite game built on individual network histories, transforming our web surfing into ongoing social play. With a game head-up display in Firefox, players can bomb each other, wage war over web sites, and lead other users on web missions. Ordinary web sites become caches for items and currency. PMOG fuses an MMO into our WWW.
PMOG stands for Passively Multiplayer Online Game. Players play without playing; clicking around the internet turns into experience points and currency. Read the rest of this entry »
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