Internet. Links. Sublime Magazine Article (Art & Philosophy Issue) The Original Copy A security guard at the Tate Modern gallery came over to ask me politely but firmly to stop taking pictures.
The irony being that I was photographing No Ghost Just a Shell initiated by Pierre Hyghe and Philippe Parreno, an artwork exploring the subject of replication and intellectual copyrights. They had purchased the copyright for the image of Annlee, a Japanese anime figure (from Ghost in the Shell) and invited artists to use the image free of charge in their own video creations. All life is based upon reproduction. But life’s idea of copying is far from (only) mechanical. Life’s copying began with our molecular progenitors in a primordial soup and has been rushing ever since onwards and upwards, asymptotically towards us - and also presumably past us to some destination unknown. Let’s call the alternative to this living, evolving form of copying: ‘dead copying’. In psychological terms dead copying is the enemy of feeling alive. Tangler Embedding Feature Now Available to All - ReadWriteWeb. Tangler, a tool for enabling real-time discussions anywhere on the web (see our previous coverage here) has just announced a new version of their product which now supports the long-awaited embedding feature.
This feature, which had been in private beta since mid-2007, is now available to all, allowing you to put embedded forums on any web site, blog, or social network profile. Using Embedding The embedding feature lets you now add a Tangler forum to any web site, blog or social network profile, using the provided embed code. Others can join in the forum in real-time by clicking on the "Join" button beneath the forum window. The first time you join a Tangler forum somewhere on the web, you have to create a username and password and then confirm your account via a link sent to you in an email. Clay Shirky at Web 2.0 Expo SF 2008. Lorcan Dempsey's weblog: Book search and glanceability. Lorcan Dempsey's weblog: The two ways of Web 2.0.
I find Web 2.0 increasingly confusing as a label; no surprise there.
This is not just because of its essential vagueness, but because I think it tends to be used in a couple of very different ways. Where this happens there is bound to be some confusion. Schematically, I will use the labels 'diffusion' and 'concentration' for these two ways. diffusion is probably the more dominant of the two. Here it covers a range of tools and techniques which create richer connectivity between people, applications and data; which support writers as well as readers; which provide richer presentation environments. Concentration is a major characteristic of our network experience, which often involves major gravitational hubs (google, amazon, flickr, facebook, propertyfinder.com). Interestingly, if you trace Tim O'Reilly's writings on Web 2.0 since the publication of his major defining article you see an emphasis on what I have called 'concentration' come through.
This Day Will Be Remembered: Facebook, Google And Plaxo Join The. After publishing an invitation to Facebook to join the DataPortability Working Group January 4, we never thought that Facebook would accept it.
Today changes everything you’ve ever thought about social-networking data and lock-in before, because today Facebook, Google and Plaxo have joined the DataPortability Workgroup. Google and Plaxo joining are a positive, however given that both have previously joined together for platforms such as OpenSocial it’s not that significant, but Facebook is another matter. Top 10 Web Tech Stories of 2007 - ReadWriteWeb. 2007 was an eventful year in Web Technology, with the rise of Facebook, some frenzied acquisitions from the likes of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, and of course the iPhone.
To round out the year (and put an end to the December lists!) Here is a look at what we think were the 10 biggest Web tech stories of the year. They're ordered in terms of technology impact and innovation - however it's a subjective list, so let us know in the comments what you think should be in there. This post doubles as the final Weekly Wrapup of 2007 -- it's been a great year and all the best everyone for 2008! Here's looking forward to more Web innovation and startup success in '08! 1. iPhone Launch On January 9, 2007 Steve Jobs announced at Macworld "three revolutionary new products": an iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator. 2. 3. On April 13 Google acquired online advertising company DoubleClick, which set off a frenzy of acquisitions in this space - notably Microsoft's $6B purchase of aQuantive. 4.