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Rough Notes for Jesse James Garrett – Keynote

Adaptive Path intro Big & small clients Elements of UX: “understanding tool” “the AJAX guy” Problem We know little about people, hard to make good guesses IA is about finding ways to make better guesses, but they’re still guesses Techniques: Card sort: primitive, low tech New approach: just give up, create a system for users [...]

Winding Down After Day 1 of Reboot 8.0

I’m kicking back and relaxing while listening to a weird and crazy talk on media hacking. Before we were entertained by the great Ben Hammersley talking about how we all could become renaissance men. The diner buffet was excellent just as the rest of the day before that. Reboot 8.0 up to now has lived [...]

Rough Notes for Mika Raento – Zero-Effort Media Use

What happens if media capture equals media annotation, archival, sharing and presentation? Hypothesis: Zero effort in annotation: annotation when you capture. Use data from surrounding (GPS, devices, etc.) Archive and sharing – tie-in with Flickr. Download them and showing them as a screensaver. Merkitys-Meaning Annotation using tags isn’t enough because they’re just strings. Effort & [...]

Rough Notes for J.P. Rangaswami – Keynote

His blog’s Confused of Calcutta. Pays homage to Doc Searls et. al. for the markets are conversations concept. He’s not yet stupid enough to believe in his own propaganda. He’ll take a graveyard approach — things that should die. And then show things that should live. Border-less World: globalization, disinter-mediation and internet. Initially language was [...]

Rough Notes for T.L. Taylor – Play

MMOGs have roots in RPGs and MUDs. Software and service. Ultima, EverQuest, Wow… Social contexts MMOGs isn’t anti-social. Social isn’t icing on the cake. Social is the substance of the game. It’s key. On- and offline connections mix. Emergent social activity. E.g.: “guilds”; trust, responsibility, reputation. Game devs aren’t giving players the tools to be [...]

Rough Notes for Matt Webb – Making Senses

Navigational metaphor. How to use senses. 5 human senses for features of next gen web browser. Sight Distance – short distance is meaningful People who are looking Peripheral vision Moving through world – active vision All about surface, we only see cover, spectacle What is sight? Idea: sitemapdb. Zoals CDDB maar dan voor sites. Crumbtrail, [...]

Ruwe Notities Van Michael Thomsen’s Keynote

Wat is renaissance? Waarom van computer naar innovatie – vanwege blinde vlek voor massive change. Eigen en andere ogen openen voor innovatie. Digitale tech. is alomtegenwoordig, dus we moeten verder kijken dan technische issues. Op verzoek van Thomas verhaal over renaissance. Concept is vaag en moeilijk te plaatsen in moderne context. Teveel conferenties over “kleine [...]

Reboot 8.0 Questions

Here’s some questions to ask during Reboot 8.0 (heard after Michael Thomsen’s talk on renaissance?): What’s the point of it all? Is it actually going to happen? Re-renaissance? What’s the impact of current way of writing on our thinking? What happens to privacy when we’re interconnected? What will be the next phase of democracy? Are [...]

Preboot

I’m sitting in the main room of Kedelhallen watching Thomas fiddle with his laptop. We’re ready to start rebooting. Yesterday we arrived in the evening, quickly checked into the hotel and went into town for a bite. After a burrito at a dodgy latin tourist trap, we went over to a stylish coffee bar for [...]

Going to Reboot 8

Registration’s done. I’m going!

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