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Widerlich.

Enterprise social networking, as Microsoft hinted at in its non-too-subtle press release, is more about collaboration and communication.

...and that's exactly what I'm trying to achieve with mawih (without Microsoft).

Another video and article about Jeff Han's work. Clients so far: Lockheed Martin, CBS News, Pixar, and unnameable government intelligence agencies. I knew it...the only way to do a startup without VC would be going to San Fernando Valley or having contacts in the armaments industry. Or both.

via typestorming.

Just added this to my wishlist: Decentralized Social Networking based on openID.

Dev, Anyone?

Update: Ton about peer to peer social networking.

Update: Thoughts on the Social Graph (by Brad Fitzpatrick via chl)

Update: Dirk Olbertz is working on NoseRub.

Amour Fou Filmproduktion, Lotus Film und POOOL Filmverleih verlosen gemeinsam 2x ein Semester Studiengebühren im Wert von 378,72 Euro.

Mehr auf www.poool.at

Disclaimer: I host parts of their websites...

Und: Auch der Blasmusikverband will Befreiung!

Aufgrund der vorherrschenden Temperaturen kapern die Klabautermänner von Klub Euroranch und Kilo nächste Woche (27.1.) das Badeschiff. Mein Alter Ego Marod wird zu deren Seemannsliedern das entsprechende Feuerwerk an visuellen Eindrücken beisteuern.

/\ Urban ................................................... /\ Bogner

= KILO

Remember @ shnitzl.org
http://kilo.onitor.de
http://www.euroranch.org/klub
http://www.badeschiff.at

I kept quiet about this project for quite a while, but now is the time to tell you a little bit about it: For an upcoming documentary by Benedikt Bjarnason, Rhizome Navigation was used to create animated visualizations of large genealogy data sets.

Below you can find a sample. It shows a 3d family tree starting with director Bjarnason at the bottom and going up to early icelandic settlers from early 10th century. The graph layout was done using an adapted force-directed algorithm and features more than 3300 persons.

What set's it apart from similar visualizations is the capability to show far more complex relationships by breaking up the classic tree structure and following a more rhizome-like approach - and of course the sheer amount of relationships shown.

Rhizome Navigation is a development framework for building data mining and information visualization related (real-time) applications. It is based on the wonderful processing.

Update: French blogs talk and comment on Rhizome Navigation. I better start refreshing my rusty French language skills...

So heute erstmal Live-Blogging auf Mind Your Own Business: Der Webmontag in Wien. Letztes Mal gab es ja nur eine Nachschrift. Ursprünglich wollte ich ja heute mawih vorstellen, leider wird's noch keine Live-Demo geben, ich werde aber ein wenig über das Konzept erzählen.

19:23 6 people and counting...

19:50 vorstellungsrunde vorbei. alle witzig drauf. web2.0 definition sparen wir uns (beim letzten webmontag wussten wir noch genau, was das ist, haben es aber vergessen, aufzuschreiben).

20:00 Eric Eggert beginnt mit Die Geschichte des Webmontags und Webstandards 2006 - What happened to the tables?

• http://www.zeldman.com/2006/10/17/web-20-thinking-game
• Geschichte des Webmontags. 1088 Flickr Fotos. 1963 Technorati Links. 1313 irgendwas.
• http://yatil.de/linkto/webmontag/umfrage
• Januar 2006: DIV-Suppe bei http://www.focus.de ... Semantic = 0
• Mai 2006: http://www.kurier.at besser! "Semantisch ganz groß"
• September 2006: http://www.spiegel.de / ganz ok. 500 Fehler im Validator...annähernd semantisch.
• Dezember 2006: http://sueddeutsche.de ...reines Tabellenlayout
• Januar 2007: http://www.einslive.de ...validates! semantisch!

Anschließend accessibility-Diskussion. An Standards halten. Wer definiert sie? Jetzt große Web-2.0-Diskussion. Ich liebe es.

20:20 Christopher Clay über Web-Security. Cross-Site-Scripting. Überblick über jeden Wahnsinn und Möglichkeiten. c3o hat sich schwer beim CCC inspirieren lassen. Hier live mitzubloggen würde jetzt zu weit führen. Vielleicht gibt's die ppt dann nachher.

• Jetzt der Wahnsinn: Cross-Site-Scripting via Adobe Acrobat Plugin: http://phoria.eu/

Was lernen wir daraus: Upgraden. Momentan über HTTP-Header erzwingen, dass PDF nicht embedded angezeigt werden, sondern nur runtergeladen werden können.

20:40 Jetzt mehr Security-Sachen.

• PHP Urlrequest-Injection. Watch out.

20:55 SPL

• Features: Dump and Serialize Virtual Machine State
• Templates. Sehr schön!
• http://rocklinux.net/submaster/

21:24 Christopher Clay über das MetaLab.

21:26 Socializing (ca. 16 Leute)

Update: Christopher Clay und Eric Eggert fassen zusammen.

I like sonday mornings.

PhpWiki 1.3.13 Release Candidate 1 released

This will be a major feature release which will be the base for the stable 1.4.0. The highlights are Semantic Web support, various WYSIWYG editors, a stable MonoBook theme (wikipedia), enabled acdropdown support (LiveSearch), postgresql and oracle enhancements, moving Help pages into Help/, support different charsets in pgsrc and Windows NTLM auth support via HttpAuth. utf-8 should work.

ReleaseNotes + ChangeLog

Download

Reini Urban will talk about PhpWiki at Barcamp Kärnten (Feb 2007).

Update: Since phpwiki.org still only hosts PhpWiki 1.2.x, I set up a test wiki at phpwiki.rafelsberger.at running 1.3.13rc1. Feel free to experiment.

Yes, we saw the keynote too! We have some very, very exciting updates coming soon- stay tuned!

The images below should match the _handsets devices' relative size.

Update #1: Last week I posted a comparison chart for FIC's Neo1973 and Apple's iPhone. I removed the chart, because there is now a semi-official one at OpenMoko's GoWiki.

Update #2: Here's a video showing a prototype of the Neo1973 (however, not enabled).

Update #3: Added Nokia's N800. I'll add a comparison chart later.

Moved to FIC Neo1973 vs. Apple iPhone vs Nokia N800.

Shameless self-promotion: Just got the official confirmation that the music video I made for kilo's track backdoors got selected for this year's DIAGONALE.

Video Stills

In addition to processing's own exhibition page, have a look at its youtube- and flickr-group.

Thanks to Flo for pointing out Lawrence Lessig's mention of Fast Film in one of his speeches (approximately at min. 10).

Fast Film is an animation short I worked on from 2001 to 2003 as visual effects supervisor. The movie premiered at Cannes 2003 and had 275 festival screenings since then and won 36 international festival awards.

Update: Director Virgil Widrich talks copyright at futurezone part #1 and #2.

With this blog post I'd like you to introduce to mawih. It's a project I've been thinking about and working on for quite some time now. I call it a mail-wiki-hybrid (because it is). What does it do? It merges what both email and wikis can do best: communication and knowledge management.

Basically it's a wiki-based email client. That means you login to mawih with your mail account credentials and if you fetch your new emails they get saved as WikiPages. Your Inbox is RecentChanges. A conversation/thread is represented by PageHistory. To compose and send an email you create a new WikiPage and send it. To reply to an email you edit the received email/page and send it back.

Technically mawih is kind of a wrapper for PhpWiki and IlohaMail's IMAP API.

I'm very excited about this. I'll try to show a demo of mawih at the upcoming Webmontag in Vienna on January 15. And hopefully soon I will release the source code. Let me know what you think about the concept. If you're a developer maybe you want to join the project. It would be great to further develop mawih so it could support different wiki engines as a backend.

Update: Bryan Reinholt released a paper about his project email2wiki.

I used to use my blog-wiki-thing to store bookmarks too...until I finally got addicted to del.icio.us recently. Same here. Now I just came upon a Feedburner feature I hadn't encountered so far: Link Splicer. This means from now on you get your very own dosis of (probably) daily links I collect while doing research (and other stuff) if you subscribe this blog's RSS feed.

Let me tell you what my secret holy orb told me: 2007 will be the year of the wiki.