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Semifiktive Halbwahrheiten - Reality Generator.

p2pfoundation has an interesting post about the importance of time as a dimension in social networking technology. My concept of Rhizome Navigation includes some of these thoughts. Simply spoken Rhizome Navigation transforms measurements of (unix) time(stamps) and visualizes them as a graph. That means it substitutes the room dimension with the time dimension. That's possible and even useful, because there is no relation to physical space in virtual rooms. That means the representation of space in virtual reality is an empty variable which we can use and fill with some kind of metaphor. A useful metaphor. However, some simply don't get it.

This weekend my parents and brother Thomas returned from a 9000km fishing trip to North Cape and had some stories to share.

The image above shows the recreation of a long-house at a Viking Museum in a small village called Borg on the Lofoten Islands. It reveals interesting aspects of viking society. For instance in this case they didn't build several small houses for each family but created one big building (approximately 9m high and 83m long) where the horde shared living quarters, stables and a banquet hall.

If Borg sounds familiar to you in a different context, read on about how script writers of Star Trek were inspired by viking history.

Further information:

• Vikingmuseet pa Borg

Recommended Readings:

The Vikings, Else Roesdahl
The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Vikings, John Haywood
The Prose Edda translated with introduction by Jesse L. Byock, Snorri Sturluson
The Hávamál (Sayings of the High One - in Swedish, Icelandic, and English versions)
The Rigsthula (The Lay of Rig)
Njal's Saga
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

via http://depts.washington.edu/scand/vikings.html

Wired wrote about crowdsourcing some time ago, now futurezone reports about German's #1 boulevard newspaper Bild trying to crowdsource paparazzi's.

Here are some reading recommendations from my daily dosis of feed aggregation.

TouchStone's Chris on The Human Network. Social Networking goes marketing. Big players jumping in here. See Cisco Propaganda and Nikon Tagging.

Friendster still your friend? See their patents System, method and apparatus for connecting users in an online computer system based on their relationships within social networks and Method of inducing content uploads in a social network.

In other news heise.de mentions that in Austria probably 100.000 illegal video surveillance systems are in operation.

Recently I joined MyBlogLogs and Lijit in my neverending effort testing and evaluating social networking services.

Florian Klenk über Social-Networking und Amoklaufen.

Todd Holloway wrote a Social Networks Library for Processing.

Just comin' back from trying out shapeshifters.net. Looks very good. If you're interested in joining shapeshifters contact me (use the feedback form below the tag cloud) and I'll send you an invitation code.

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.

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.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/walterra/436805745

Using Rhizome Navigation I analyzed the protagonist's relationships from the movie Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King. The size of a name relates to how many times it is mentioned within the movie script. The name positions are calculated by parsing the screenplay and analyzing which names appear close to each other in the text.

Some thoughts: Frodo and Sam are very close to each other (of course), and it's interesting that the two stand between Gollum and The Ring. Although Aragorn is linked to both Arwen and Eowyn, the relationship seems not very strong (when compared to Frodo/Sam and Gandalf/Pippin for example). Both women appear at the opposite end of the graph. The relationships Gandalf/Pippin and Frodo/Sam seem equally weighted. This could also be an indication how the main storylines of the scripts are weighted.

I'm looking forward to you interpretations.

More related stuff coming soon.

Rhizome Navigation is based on the wonderful processing.

I removed the Lijit Widget from the page. The idea is great, but search was simply too slow. I replaced it with PhpWiki's builtin FullTextSearch at the top right.

However, if you want to try out Lijit on myob you may still do so below (permalink). And I encourage you to try out the widget's explore button for some highly addictive social network browsing (didn't work in Firefox for me, try Safari - dunno about IE).

Das Netzwerk der Gilde "Protectors of Moonglow" (2002)

A year ago I wished we had Decentralized Social Networking based on openID. Back in August '07 we saw the rise of NoseRub starting as a PHP library trying to achieve this purpose. In the last months NoseRub's founder Dirk Olbertz enlarged the team and improved the library. They even started a reference platform based on NoseRub: Identoo.com. And it looks promising indeed!

Identoo allows you to create a profile and add web(2.0) services you use (del.icio.us etc.). This alone wouldn't be so extraordinary, basically it's a lifestream many services offer. But what I haven't seen doing another project is recognizing most of your contacts from these services and let them add as contacts to your Identoo account.

But let's not forget, Identoo is (at the moment) a reference platform, or let's say your identity provider. Identoo/NoseRub could be for social networking what WordPress is for blogs: a service provider (wordpress.com) and an open-source software (wordpress.org) for the same purpose.

And, as with WordPress, this could of course work: Those who're just looking for the functionality and are not interested in the technical details choose Identoo, others who have their own webspace and want to be in control (meaning both the technology and their properties) take NoseRub.

So, for those interested: See you at http://identoo.com/walterra/

Did some experiments with Google's Social Graph API and Twitter. Images were done with Rhizome Navigation. The graph shows mutual relationships between 200 people (with my account in the center). The background is darker in areas where people are more connected.

Rodney Rumford: "The challenge that facebook has on their hands is great. They offer access to 80 million users; but companies that choose to try and leverage the opportunity are subjected to a never-ending set of rule set changes. These rule set changes could (and have) forced some businesses to choose to not embrace the facebook app platform. Making a business decision when the platform owner (facebook) can (and does) frequently change the rules is a serious business challenge. The bottom line here is that the facebok rules are starting to feel more and more like the tax code. You know what happens when you have the tax code? You need an expert to navigate the waters. I am not saying the new rules are inherently bad; they just keep changing and getting much more complex."

Beim letzten Barcamp in Wien entstand für mich der Eindruck, dass viele der Meinung waren, BP mache in punkto PR (und gerade auch in Bezug auf Social Media) alles richtig, ja die Vorgehensweise könnte sogar als Best-Practice-Beispiel in die Geschichte eingehen.

Die Zeit sieht das anders.

Bei holzweg hab ich noch zwei Beiträge zu Veranstaltungen deponiert, auf denen ich in letzter Zeit war: Barcamp Vienna 2010 und Triple-C Symposium.