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26/12/09

Future 10 absolutely true web predictions for 2010 (with money back guarantee)

  • In 2010 book publishers will share the digital joy/pain with their music counterparts
  • In 2010 traditional media will continue to blame the web of all evils of our society
  • In 2010 a (not so) major global event will bring Twitter servers down
  • In 2010 a new technology/platform/business model that nobody predicted in 2009 will emerge
  • In 2010 new buzzwords that will only last one Tweet will be created
  • In 2010 Tim O’Reilly will add yet another mathematical label to the word Web (2.0, squared, pi, gamma, you name it)
  • In 2010 marketers will still look for a model to monetize the power of social media
  • In 2010 there will be predictions for how the web will be in 2011
  • In 2010 nobody will review the predictions they made in 2009
  • In 2010 the world will not end (nor will in 2012 and nor should you watch the movie)

14/08/09

Twitter A short history of writing

This post started as a late night tweet summarizing (in less than 140 characters) the story of writing hence the title of the post. Here’s the original tweet.

From 4,000 BC to 1992: Pre-web era. Writing

The representation of language in a textual medium through the use of a set of signs or symbols is known as a writing system. Around the 4th millennium BC, the complexity of trade and administration outgrew the power of memory, and writing became a more dependable method of recording and presenting transactions in a permanent form

From 1992 to 1997: Web 1.0. Online copywriting

Copywriting is the use of words to promote a person, business, opinion or idea. The term may be applied to any content regardless of media (print, radio, television, or online media).

From 1997 to 2004: Web 2.0. Blogging

A blog (a contraction of the term “weblog”) is a type of website with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

From 2004 to 2008: Social web. Posting

Like in Facebook when u post stuff 2 ur friend’s wall such as:

sup? will upload pics from last party… check’em l8er

From 2008 to present time: Live web. RT

RT @my_tweep EPIC WIN ->I haz my pics O_o <-LOL or WTF?! :D

(If you don’t understand this last chapter you can check what people are saying right now at twitter.com)

21/09/08

Google Will local markets (and I mean local) survive the googlobal market?

I just came from my small town’s antique street marquet where I saw a cool 70s jump-hour watch exactly like this one, except for the brand. The one I saw had the Sears brand on it.

At the stall, after checking that it still worked, I asked the price. It started at 70 €, dropped to 65 without asking and after a while it was already 50 €.

It wasn’t obviously new, a few scratches and wear here and there but the overall condition was good. While I was still thinking it over, it came to my mind that I could Google for it on the iPhone and check some background data about the model.

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09/04/08

21 Steps: literature meets Google Maps

An excellent mashup, or a geo-localized short story written on Google maps bubbles by writer Charles Cummings. I’m halfway through it and about to fly to Edimburgh. Don’t tell me the end!

21 Steps. First Google map story

Visit the 21 Steps website

19/03/08

Oops they did it again: big corporations turning to YouTube for their TV ads.

I wrote a while ago about a couple of tv ads “inspired” either by online projects or videoclips available on YouTube.

Well, history repeats. A couple of weeks ago I found a gem on YouTube called Daft Hands, where a couple of hands with text on it danced to Daft Punk’s Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (over 16 Million views as I’m writing this). The video spawned dozens of replies of people with text all over the body dancing to the tune.

My surprise was when a week ago I saw a commercial on TV by Spanish telecom Telefónica, where two hands with the terms of a special offer danced to a copycat of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.

Talking about Web 2.0 changing traditional media!

Here’s a nice video where you can see both and judge for yourself. First the commercial and next the original version.

Here’s a link to Daft Hands on YouTube.
Marvel yourself at Telefónica’s website (the 4th telecom in the world). God!

07/03/08

Web 2.0, del ego al Lego presentation (in Spanish)

Here’s the presentation to the students of the “Design and Web Programming” course of the ” Confederación de Empresarios de Andalucía.

You can download the pdf in Spanish here.

Web 2.0. Del ego al Lego

You can see last year’s presentation here.

25/02/08

Google Maps: create a life size marker and get noticed

Looking for some info on Google Maps API, I stumbled on this project where German artist Aram Bartholl plays with the Google satellite by placing physical Google Maps markers on the ground.

Here’s a picture:

Life size Google Map Marker

Check Bartholl’s other projects where he explores the interactions between the web and the physical world.

www.datenform.de – Aram Bartholl’s website

23/01/08

Web 2.0 Company Name Generator

Looking for some naming tips I stumbled upon this funny name generator. It even checks the availability of the domain. Kewl.

Web 2.0 Company Name Generator

19/01/08

Tim Berners-Lee on the Semantic Web (video)

The data web, like the document web involves standards as HTML, Cascading Style Sheets and so on, all this things were enabled by royalty free standards. The same on the data web.

What if you wanted to meet a friend for coffee at the best café next to her house?

Well, even if you had your friend’s address on Gmail, tagged the best cafés in the City in del.icio.us and made your GPS position available to an online web service, there’s no way you could get the right café straight away as technology stands right now.

All the information needed to find the perfect coffee is available online and available but not very usable. You could still pull it off after a few clicks and searches on your internet enabled mobile device but this is not the point.

The cool thing would be that some algorithm (AI?) cross-referenced the data and produced the right answer at the right moment and this is where the Semantic Web or Intelligent Web comes to rescue.

Think of what you could achieve by cross-referencing air-traffic information and nutrition patterns when triying to stop the spreading of a disease.

Learn all about it in this excellent Tim Berners-Lee video.

All about the Semantic Web in this 2006 article by Nigel Shadbolt and Tim Berners-Lee (PDF)

18/01/08

Create your MTV: Last.fm + YouTube Mashup

Tim Bormans Last.fm + YouTube mashup
An online music television based on your taste from Last.fm coded by Tim Bormans.

Just enter your Last.fm user name, and the website will play YouTube videos from your popular Last.fm artists.

You get your own personalized MTV, playable in full screen with a unique URL for you to share with your friends. Cool!

Watch my Last.fm + YouTube MTV

Create your own MTV at tv.timbormans.com