A fully vegetarian #smore. I refused to include Hannah's chocolatey face in the picture.
A fully vegetarian #smore. I refused to include Hannah's chocolatey face in the picture.
I always leave getting a haircut way too long. Contemplating just shaving it myself.
Pretty excited to see Her later this year. Spike Jonze is a genius & the story sounds fascinating. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/
@C_LosRun You couldn't pay me to see the Matthew Broderick version. (Somehow I've managed to avoid it so far!)
When I was a kid, I'd get up extra early to draw comics before school. Tonight: having a lovely evening with some Sharpies.
"The licensing terms of schema.org encourages everyone to produce and consume data." Wording doesn't suggest that? #osfw3c
"You geeks put away your computers!", I was just told. I am at a W3C workshop.
eg over at <a href="http://latakoo.com/">@latakoo</a>, we're integrating with video editing software, news management systems, etc. #osfw3c
On RSS: "We never had anybody call us up and ask, 'hey, can we get a SOAP feed?'" If they ever do, call an exorcist. #osfw3c
Another sunny, warm day in San Francisco, where I am certainly not getting drizzled on.
I'm going to change my hairstyle next month. First, I'll spend 30 days talking about all the hair I ever had.
I'm good with my phone alerting me to watch out for abducted children in danger. I hope they don't start using this for terror alerts though.
A year of open source: http://flatfrogblog.com/2013/08/05/year-of-open-source-intro/ Can you help <a href="http://twitter.com/erinjo">@erinjo</a> with suggestions?
Ma has been told she can't read or watch TV, so I'm listening to <a href="http://www.commonplacebooks.com/p/blog-page.html">Welcome to Night Vale</a> with her. Hooked from minute 1.
Some welcome skeptical analysis of immigration reform in the tech industry: http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2013/08/05/immigration-h1b-visas-tech-jobs/?iid=HP_Highlight
This week: a root canal, presenting at a W3C workshop, buttressing an API, and all the usual stuff. Let's get this show on the road.
@erinjo Something like this is cheaper and less invasive: http://alldav.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=30 I think USB adaptors exist for touchtone phones.
Judging by the pictures I just uploaded, I really need to get my lens / CCD cleaned. Any recommendations in Berkeley / SF?
@aaronpk When I get a Google Hangout, it's like a scene from a horror movie. I've screamed more than once.
Whenever I get a text message at home, at least four devices ring at once. It's like Christmas.
@aaronpk @t idno's got access permissions baked into it already - attaching tokens to those means you can have per-item security according to groups of users. That, together with contacts (also important) is the big thing I wanted to do next. You've solved a huge part of the puzzle.
When I left Elgg in 2009, I immediately started working on Outmap, a social geodata platform that you could use with any web browser. It never saw the light of day.
Outmap allowed you to collaboratively create map layers, either privately in a group, or in public. Here's two use cases that illustrate what you could do with it:
It was based on data tied to individual location points, but further developments would have allowed you to group points into areas, in order to better support some scientific applications. And again, it was all web-based used existing web standards, all social, and (like Elgg) had per-item access permissions.
Outmap couldn't be released for reasons I won't go into here, and were unrelated to the mechanisms of the platform (but were related to the fallout from my decision to leave Elgg). Let it suffice to say, it was out of my hands. I abandoned work on it in 2010, and moved on to work on latakoo.
Geolocation has evolved since 2009, and I think we all now understand that the web is something that we can access from anywhere, and that pages can know about your geographic context. Some other use cases were covered by Google Maps and (particularly) Findery, which is building up a world of memories, found objects and resources on a shared map. Geoloqi, whose founders I really like and respect, supercharges the kinds of use cases Outmap supported (as well as many others). Meanwhile, there are (and were) professional GIS platforms that are extremely powerful and used for many scientific and industrial applications.
I still think there's a place for this kind of functionality in an enterprise social platform. Luckily, I'm now in a position to work on that. Watch this space.
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I will say this: the <a href="http://twitter.com/getforword">@getforword</a> guys have the only desk in the office that actually looks like they've been hacking.
@barnabywalters Nice! Together with "In Desperate Need Of" and "I dunno", I'm feeling pretty good about the name I chose.
Holy shit. <a href="http://twitter.com/inthefade">@inthefade</a> and her husband Google pressure cookers & backpacks - and get a visit from the Feds. https://medium.com/something-like-falling/2e7d13e54724
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