Finnaly came around reading some articles i marked 2read long time ago.  Here an interesting quote from an article about yahoo buying del.icio.us and flickr

“In topology search, what you’re really doing is conferring to webmasters the privilege of deciding what’s important for everybody. They cast their votes on what’s important by building links - and they do it in a way that smears it out for everybody, so we all get the same results.” The concept of personal search and social search, he says, “democratises that process, and says ‘why should webmasters be the only authority we trust and confer that privilege to?’. Why can’t I pick other authorities of trust, like for instance my friends? What is their opinion?”

So instead of getting the same results as everybody who searches a term, you get results that are filtered through your social group. You choose your own peers - friends, family, colleagues, interesting strangers - and they provide your answers. And by including different levels of friendship, you can increase the size of your net dramatically. Even if you have just 10 contacts, and those contacts have another 10 each, that’s still more than 100 potential sources within two hops. The concept is useful, perhaps, but maybe not for everyone.

“If you’re trying to find the population of London, you don’t need social search,” admits Horowitz. “But if you’re trying to find a restaurant to eat at, a blog to read, or a plumber who’s reputable - the kind of things you depend on the expertise of others to know - that’s where the social search phenomenon comes in.”

I’ve just been invited for a conference in Pensylvenia: The hyperlinked society. They say they’ll even cover my hotel, meal and part of my travel budget … how about a cheap holiday??
Although I’m not sure if it is a scam yet, i found an interesting link on their website: an extensive list of web 2.0 apps Impressive.

Updat:e it’s not a scam This means that i can enjoy a good conference and a cheap holiday at the same time

I love listening to internet radio, my favorite is http://www.etherbeat.com
Today however I discovered last.fm’s neighbourhood radio. It is internet radio based on the songs you submitted to last.fm before … neat! A radiostation playing only the things that I like but not always know You can also give in a tag or an artist, after which you will only get similiar artists on your radio. Beat this pandora.com.

The real nice thing is that it is interactive radio as well. You can ‘love’ or ‘ban’ a track or skip tracks if you don’t feel like it right now. Afterwards people can tune in to your loved tracks radio.

Btw, I really have to switch to tags instead of categories soon. Tags are way more flexible than categories and if I adjust my plugin (see previous post) just a little so that it can work with TWiki as well … mmmhhh Bliki is coming my way … finally And then a tagcloud instead of a category listing and if you click on a tag you can see all my del.icio.us bookmarks with that tag, and my last.fm songs with that tag, and my wikitopics with that tag and my blogposts with that tag … and then what the world has to say about that tag (digg, wikipedia, del.icio.us) … Mmmhhh … sounds like my brain :S The everreturning question pops up: how much of myself am I willing to get logged and available on the internet?? I don’t want anybody (who I don’t personnaly know) to be able to profile me … I read that book called ‘Big Brother’, you know.

Joehoe,

heb eindelijk de eerste wordpress plugin gereleased waarvoor ik ook betaald ben: http://wp-plugins.net/plugin/bliki/
Meer info hier: http://twiki.justlol.net/twiki/bin/view/Newmedia/Bliki

Natuurlijk is ie gereleased met een GPL licentie zodat iedereen hem gratis kan gebruiken en aanpassen. Delen van de code komen trouwens uit een andere plugin

Now this looks funky … and it’s free

STEIM presents NoiseFold
Composed and Performed by David Stout and Cory Metcalf

David Stout and Cory Metcalf will discuss their installation and performance works exploring bio-mimetic structures within complex audio-visual systems. The pair will also perform a new full length work, NoiseFold. NoiseFold premieres at the Festival Internationale d’Art Video in Casablanca, Morroco on March 25.

NoiseFold is an interactive visual-music-noise performance that draws equally from mathematics, science and the visual and sonic arts. This networked performance duet explores the use of infrared and electromagnetic sensors to manipulate and fold virtual 3-D objects that emit their own sounds. The work integrates multiple techniques including; real-time 3-D animation, mathematic visualization, recombinant non-linear data-base, A-life simulation, image to sound transcoding, complex data feedback structures and a variety of algorithmic processes used to generate both sonic and visual skins. The result is a theater of emergence and alchemical transformation existing within an intricate cybernetic system.

Location: STEIM, Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134, Amsterdam
Date: Tuesday March 28 2006
Time: 20:30
Entrance: free

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http://www.strp.nl/

Het programma brengt, verdeeld over drie dagen en twee nachten ± 40 muziekoptredens; een grootse expositie van zo’n 30 kunstrobots en/of interactieve kunstinstallaties; veel videokunst en kunstzinnige videoclips; 3 multimediale theatervoorstellingen; diverse Live Cinema optredens; een eendaags filmfestival; ± 10 voordrachten en lezingen van kunstenaars; workshops en een aantal andere projecten die moeilijk onder bovengenoemde categorie‘n te plaatsen zijn.

Bij het programmeren van STRP vormden vier thema’s het uitgangspunt:
We are the Robots; robotkunst van internationale kunstenaars variërend van lief, klein en breekbaar tot groots, spectaculair en industrieel.
Press ‘Start’; indrukwekkende installaties en kunstwerken waarbij je zelf een actieve rol speelt in de ervaring en realisatie ervan.
Nu-Live; live muziekperformances waarbij de interactie van beeld en geluid en de performance zelf een belangrijke plaats innemen.
RE-; is gebaseerd op de rijke technologische historie van Strijp-S. Het werk van een van ’s werelds belangrijkste pioniers op het gebied van elektronische muziek, Dick Raaijmakers, wordt door gerenommeerde producers geremixt.

Wie wil er mee dit weekend?

Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing. Elwyn B. White, schrijver/essayist (Essays, 1977)

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Een interessant artikel op denieuwereporter.nl over mashups:

Mashups zijn innovatieve websites die twee of meer bestaande, externe databronnen op het internet combineren, met als resultaat nieuwe informatie, dikwijls gepresenteerd met een verrassende interface.

Voor een lijst van mashups check programmableweb. Interessant zijn zeker:

Related to del.icio.us, flickr and wikipedia:

• bashr.com - A project that bashes together Wikipedia, flickr and del.icio.us
• flickr related tag browser
• reddiggdot.us - reddit, digg, slashdot and del.icio.us combined
• rel8r.com - An experimental discovery tool that searches tags from various social network-type sites including Flickr, Technorati, and Upcoming
• thumlicio.us - Use thumblicious to quickly preview the most popular sites bookmarked on del.icio.us via thumbnail screenshots.
• flickrfling - Innovative prototype for exploring Flickr photos. Point the application at a feed, like CNN, it then renders the news in photos by matching tagged photos to words from the news.
• livemarks - see del.icio.us bookmarks added as a live stream
• digglicious.com - a live stream which combines digg.com and del.icio.us
• flickrgraph is an application that explores the social relationships inside flickr.com
• flitter - Mashup of Amazon (for album/book details), Audioscrobbler (for related artists), Flickr (for tagged photos), del.icio.us (for tagged links), Blogdigger (for media files) and Feedster (for matching weblog posts).

Music:

• upcomingscrobbler - a blend of last.fm and upcoming.org. Get notified of groups you listen and have a concert near you!
• noesbueno.com/musical/ - another blend of last.fm and upcoming.org
• musipedia.org - The Open Music Encyclopedia, uses Amazon Alexa to provide the ability to search the web by melody. Give the engine a keyword or melodic contour, and it returns similar music.

Various:

• urbanhitchhiker - Ridesharing site where users can store and search for rides all on a map. All contact between users is anonymous.
• garbagescout - The New York City streets are full of interesting and potentially useful things that have been thrown out. If you see something good, snap a pic, send to Garbagescout where others can go and get it. They should really make something like this for Amsterdam. I already found so many useful and funky things on the street!

Related to news:

• taglines - Search mashup combining multiple services include news and images. Tag cloud has dynamic Ajax-style pop-up with embedded searching.
• tagcloud.com - TagCloud is an automated Folksonomy tool. Essentially, TagCloud searches any number of RSS feeds you specify, extracts keywords from the content and lists them according to prevalence within the RSS feeds. Clicking on the tag’s link will display a list of all the article abstracts associated with that keyword.
• newzingo.com - current tag cloud of popular articles on newsvine.com

Mashups relating to geomapping blogs and news (yeah, it’s a work deviance ;)): (more…)