Ever been jealous of you neighbour's miraculous dTree? Oh, I see – you have no clue what a dTree is. Well, those things don't grow in gardens, that's for sure: we're talking Scriptaculous here: dTrees are the nifty little menu structures with the “+”-signs that make hierarchies expand or collapse.
No more need for manuel coding, WP-dTree by a guy who calls himself “Plugin Author” does the trick:
Because it's the Ax Men – and they have the most dangerous job in the world, nothing like the X-Men. And nothing like the fax men who drift away over endless excel tables. Yes, that's right: chopping wood is a lot more dangerous than hammering away at your keyboard. You lose paragraphs, they lose limbs – that's why the history channel is spreading this great promotion clip:
The really annoying thing about the otherwise gorgeous thwirl client is its inability to pause the live-feed: on my windows mobile pda I use tiny twitter.
The client updates my contact feed every 5 minutes – but it does not auto-scroll, which means that when I start reading again I start exactly where I left off, scrolling through all the new tweets.
I really miss this option on twhirl: in my opinion, one of twitter's key-strength is the overview-factor… but with twhirl, I allways have to scroll back. New tweets are marked with an asterisk, but still I miss my “pause”-button…
The social web is all about user participation, right? Well, maybe. Kind of. But the truth is that the web 2.0 these days is all about syndication: call it cross-, auto- or whatever-posting, feeds are running wild. Just take friendfeed: ff posts to facebook, twitter posts to facebook… soup.io, an Austrian Startup, also has nice and nifty auto-syndication features. The same can be said about tumblr. So what happens when you let these two mighty beasts battle, umm, I mean talk to, each other?
Would one achieve eternal RSS action Zen that way? Yes, it is that simple, actually – you don't even have to spend the best years of your live in a monastery:
What's going to happen? Let's say you post something on soup. It then gets repostet on tumblr, which again triggers a posting at soup which in turn… you get the point. And friendfeed documents it all. Ain't that great? Finally, the human factor has been eliminated from the communication formula. When I was a kid, one needed an analogue cam, a TV and a darkened room to achieve endless loop-back effects; the results were more vivid, and the visual far more interesting though than my perpetuum webile. I tried this, check it out:
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perpetuumwebile.tumblr.com
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What really happens is rather boring though: after a couple of reposts the whole process comes to and end: virtual entropy is kicking in… no endless fun.
Can you think of any other such feedback-mechanisms? Of course I integrated my tweets, my friendfeed *and* my blog with my facebook accounts – now triple actions are swarming all around. A hash key as lowest common denominator could probably subdue the chaos – but for now let's rejoice and look forward to the age of machines that are almost as dumb as humans: a true scientific breakthrough.
Dan posted an amazing video (and redesigned his blog): it brilliantly illustrates the little differences between marketing (the guys who talk crap all the day) and sys-admins (the guys who play computer games during their work hours all day). It's a clash of civilizations: and we all know which one is gonna make it, right?
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Joni Rewind, the former DJ for Hamburg
Austrian art group monochrom recently joined forces with the BLF (Billboard Liberation Front). Their Target: the Google Campus. Their mission: to set up a critical installation called “the great firewall of China”. It's art, so no one went to jail – the BLF knows the US law system like their vest pocket. What neither the monos nor the BLF knew though was that their action took place just on the day of a Google shareholder meeting – great coincidences still do occur in our wonder-less age! ‘njoy the vid:
Scotty, get those phazers ready – the battle for digital identity management is about to begin. The Google Klingons have yet not been able to successfully launch their not-so-secret weapon OpenSocial, while the Federation's OpenId primarily seems to appeal to nerds.
But hey, behold: the times they are-a-changing: just a couple of days ago myspace announced the introduction of Data Availability, which is basically an interface allowing myspace users to share their profile data with third party websites like Twitter, Photobucket and the like.
Just two days after the information became public, Facebook started talking about Facebook Connect, a perfectly similar system – Techcrunch has more. Both interfaces will be publicly available for any interested partners in a couple of weeks and both will fight Google and OpenId for supremacy over digital id management – and the battle is set up to be very interesting to watch.
Dear readers, I warmly welcome you :mrgreen: The most important adaptions have been made, I might have overlooked one or two German words here and there… but over the next couple of weeks the “beta launchphase” is about to end and all the empty pages – or at least most of them – will be so crowded with king content, there won't be any space for critical remarks.
But seriously: for now, just let me point you to an interview I did with media art professor Karel Dudesek – but beware, it's available in German only.
“Getting into our jeans takes way too much time,” these guys thought. I'm wondering how many times they had to do the final backflip – impressive!
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