Placelessness and the advance of micropublishing
Alex Faaborg of Mozilla talking microformats.
1- what are microformats
2- what is mozilla’s role
3- what’s the UI
(something else)
Talking microformats, hit microformats.org for extra information. Microformats book, tomorrow microformats talk, and another one on wednesday.
2- why does mozilla care?
Talking web browser history, from mosaic to mozilla.
2008 hits webbrowser to switchboard.
first, the web browser was a book, then a radio with RSS< and then with microformats it’ll become a switchboard.
Each state, web browsers have been trying to keep up and being reactive as opposed to proactive. For example, RSS there are a gajillion chicklets, and a reactive way web browsers let it go.
Microformats are kind of killing us right now similar to rss chicklets. Now, we need to create hCard geo, adr and hCalendar with associated buttons.
Operator is a plugin for interacting with microformats. Get it at labs.mozilla.org.
Also, microformats could be implemented in the regular ways (rss feed icon, sidebar, or menubar)
Bookmarks (sidenote, tagged bookmarks in ff3)
Should microformats be shown in the content area instead of browser UI? Modal intervaces suck. They heard that they shouldn’t change the content area.
Microformat creation? What if end users could create microformats. Right click say new event and create that easy inside of the browser.
Why should they use microformats?
1– open standards, please don’t hurt the web picture
2– human / computer interaction
3– cross polinating
Audience questions:how do we promote sites to take advantage of microformats?
Talking at w20 is ane say way. Adding a web browser implementation of microformats would help a lot to penetrate.
how do we support previous data entered?
try to detect, before adding structured information.
how to combat spam?
Not really helping yet, since microformats make it easier to understand what email addresses are email.
Lost remote
We’re trying to liveblog from the Lost Remote panel at Web2.0. Right now, the panelists are talking exclusivity. Is the web really the place for old-media style exclusivity? Or, does exclusivity really mean more “controlling the content where I want it to go.”
Moderator: Liz Gannes, Gigaom
Jay Adelson, Revision3
David Clarck, North America
Erik Hachenburg, Metacafe
Howard Lidzon, Wallstrip
Marc Siry, NBC Uni
Erik Hachenburg, of MetaCafe, unsurprisingly thinks YouTube won’t get into monetizing content before it dies.
Adelson: “The question remains can YouTube really build community.”
Howard: “Everyone’s talking about YouTube like they’ve been around for 100 years, but they’ve only been around for 3 years. Three.”
Audience Question: What’s the future of set-top boxes?
Adelson: “I think what’s changing this year is pretty much all the platforms that control set-top boxes are adding internet connectivity.” The problem? The UI isn’t there for internet content. DVR is kind of like an RSS feed, and when we can make the interface for internet content as simple as subscribing to a DVR show, we’ll have made it.
We got into the session late, but essentially it feels a lot like the panelists are still kind of searching for ways to deal with video content.
Live test
Hey, I know we haven’t still gotten back to regularity yet, but we will post web2.0. Plus, we might even have some content for you from the show.
In the meantime, check out our live test running over at our alpha-site, thebiz. It’s our live test, running off of a test server right now. We’ll be using it for the upcoming politic2.0 event. Fun, right?
The deal.
So here’s the thing… I’ve been gone for about a month… promising I’d get a show done here and there, and here’s what i’ve come to realize… my new job is killer. WikiReview is going to be a huge success, and the subsequent companies it spawns will also be big.
At this point, the sentence could go two different ways: A) I’m leaving TCD or B ) I’m leaving new job.
Lucky for you, I’m answering with B– I’m leaving my new job.
I’m leaving the reasoning private, but in the meantime TCD will be dark for another month till I get officially “back” and then we’ll be going full-bore.
I’ve come to realize I’m a writer. I like writing, I like telling stories and I don’t like being an executive. That’ll mean I need a CEO eventually, and it won’t be me. I’ll need sales people eventually, and they won’t be me either. I’m going to stick to telling stories for the foreseeable future, because it’s what I like to do, and it’s what I’m good at.
I miss you too, and we’ll be back together soon enough, just give me some time here to figure everything out, and we’ll get back together asap.
Love ya!
Status Update: Part Deux
So yeah, another status update… I know you all miss the wonderfulness that is Tech Check Daily, but I think we’re going to move to a weekly show that is guaranteed, with blog posts on Tech Check as we feel appropriate. We’ll have a show friday night for the weekend, and then figure it out from there.
Thanks for staying with us!
Where we’re @!
We’ve been gone moving into our new office, and with that we’ve got a new strategy and a new way to approach the show. Peep the vid for a quick tour of our office from my iSight camera, which we’ll have later today.
Xbox360 homebrew snuffed out
Sorry kids, it was fun while it lasted, but microsoft’s latest patch to the xbox360 undoes all that homebrew goodness you worked so hard to achieve. Looks like this edition of the console won’t work as great as a homebrew heaven as the last edition.
Ashcroft speaks out against XM-Sirius merger
John Ashcroft speaks out against Satellite radio merger after offering to help XM.
Vista cracked (for real!)
The collective internet community was hoaxed on Friday, and yeah, we all should have known better, but now it sounds like someone really hacked Vista’s activation scheme!
[Thanks, Nathan!]
Conservapedia: Conservative Wikipedia
We’re not too into politics, but apparently there’s some sort of conservative need to rebuff Wikipedia. Here’s a hint, anyone can edit wikipedia! If you don’t like it, change it!