links for 2008-04-13
Posted April 13, 2008 1:45 AM.
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Those of you who have Fire Eagle invitations will - with any luck - have already noticed that we've started adding some select apps into the gallery. More to come. It's actually quite overwhelming.
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Constructed by Steve Marshall.
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At some point when the current lunacy is over and my teeth are fixed, I have an apartment, Fire Eagle is completely launched, my taxes are done and Web 2.0 Expo and Where 2.0 are over I shall redesign too.
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The next lot are a little less depressing: awesome, eagle, evening, fucking, new, think, totally, want. Top people mentioned: Biddulph, Brother, Cal, God, Jones, Paul, Simon.
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Also demonstrates some of the value and fun you can have with accelerometers.
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Very happy about it. Spent quite a lot of yesterday early evening knocking up a quick scale drawing in OmniGraffle 5. I'll plug in the numbers today when I go around this afternoon.
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It's hard to know how to respond to that, except to say that honestly, how many things last exactly forty-five minutes. I suppose you could time the TV shows you're watching.
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You require willpower to develop willpower. Nasty. To be honest, this connects well with my experience. I've managed to make myself more focused, and my flat's normally a tip.
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I love the way your brain attempts to rationalise this documentary-style footage of what's going on with the fantastic, allegorical and occasionally just insane stories from the Bible.
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I can't help but wonder how easy it is to walk down without killing yourself though.
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And then you can go straight over to Amazon MP3 to buy it. If you're in the US that is.
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Particularly horrified by the picture, which captures my exhaustion and desire to get into trouble only partly as well as it gets my double chin and my 'raises handbags' gesture.
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Awesome! Everyone likes pubs!
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He probably hates it. I don't mind! I still think he's neat.
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My Swedish is far from perfect but this should help you get the gist of it (it is not a 100% word-for-word translation but it should give you an idea of what the article is about):
Tom Coates on Fire Eagle
Tom Coates presents Fire Eagle on the ETech conference and also gives a checklist to see if you're developing for the web in 2008.
Tom delivers three main points:
1. We have to develop apps that spread their tentacles all over. Physical devices, ubiquitous computing, desktop applications, mobile applications, instant messaging and dashboard widgets. An example of this is Jaiku which besides the web interface has a mobile client, an instant messaging and SMS interface, several applications through its API, import of feeds from other services, etc.
2. We have to function well with others. We shouldn't be a silo or do what others do but use them instead. See for example Flickr upon which many other applications are built and which uses other services like Picnic for image editing and QOOP for prints, photo books, t-shirts, etc.
3. We have to provide data to improve other services. We have to create and let others use data (and vice versa). See Fire Eagle for yourself, what we do is we offer the possibility for other applications to locate people geographically.
These are the principles which according to Tom Coates penetrate the Fire Eagle project.
And the interesting bit is that Fire Eagle is almost only an API: If you log on to Fire Eagle the only thing you see is a map and a text input field so you can input where you are. If you don't know that this information can be used (with your permission) by other applications the service seems completely useless.
→ Posted by: Mikkel at April 13, 2008 1:11 PM
Congratulations on finding a flat! Apartment. Habitat-hunting is incredibly stressful.
Your new tiny street looks very cute.
→ Posted by: Sarah at April 14, 2008 1:03 AM