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March 11, 2006
Etech06 day 3 misc people
Kevin Lynch – Adobe
Connection of Ajax with Flash graphics
Brian Dear – EVDB When Do We Get the Events We Want?
Events and Venues Database – inspired by collaborative databases
Mashup: Podbot
Known events – performers
Expected events – prospective search, notification/alert
Dream events – events you WISH would happen – “eventful demand”
- demand aggregration
- tools for fans
- tools for performers
- notifications/alerts
- like Amazon wishlist – you want fulfillment, you want the promise to come true
- not to sell the data – turn control over to fans and performers
- a marketplace for experiences
Hans Peter Brondmo – First You Google, Then What?
Plum
How do we rely on imperfect humans
Collect – share – connect/discover
Plum – collect almost anything [digital] from everywhere
- cache webpages
- photos on desktop
- email
- music
[trying to do too much…Flickr just does photos, last.fm just does music…del.icio.us just does links. Mike says: collecting everything in one interface when you could just get the feeds from all these other places…or mix n match]
Open set of APIs
Joel Spolsky – report card
His rules:
- Make people happy
- Think about emotions
- Obsess about aesthetics
The cuteness of the reddit alien – which he finds appealing
Motorola cellphone with unnecessary latch razr
[… something I didn’t catch]
Contemporary web design aesthetics – cargo cult of Google aesthetics
Posted by egoodman at March 11, 2006 9:08 PM
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