Diablog October2005

Internet Identity Workshop

The Internet Identity Workshop focuses on identity in the large: Many have argued that the lack of a credible identity infrastructure will eventually result in the Internet being so overrun with fraud as to make it useless for many interesting uses.

Identity is all about attention. Phillip Windley puts it like this: ”Attention data is the record of what you’ve read, what you’re spending time on, and what you should be paying attention to. Two different groups are thinking about attention data in a general way: Attention.xml and Attention Trust. My impression is that Attention.xml is more about the technology needed to track yourself while Attention Trust is more “rights” to “data you own.””

On the future of the encyclopedia

In a response to NIcholas Carr´s The amorality of Web 2.0 David Gerard states that ”… if we want a good encyclopedia in ten years, it’s going to have to be a good Wikipedia. So those who care about getting a good encyclopedia are going to have to work out how to make Wikipedia better, or there won’t be anything.”

24: Conspiracy

The mobile show 24: Conspiracy will consist of one-minute long “mobisodes", available to Vodaphone Live subscribers only. Eric Young, hired to create 24 episodes for a spinoff of the hit series “24,” learned that making video for a pocket-size screen is far different from making it for a 27-inch television set. (NY Times)

Minister of counterculture

Gilberto Gil, culture minister of Brazil, interviewed by The Guardian:
“This isn’t just my idea, or Brazil’s idea /../ It’s the idea of our time. The complexity of our times demands it.” He is politician enough to hold back from endorsing the breaking of laws, for example on music downloading, but only just. “The Brazilian government is definitely pro-law,” he grins. “But if law doesn’t fit reality anymore, law has to be changed. That’s not a new thing.

3D on Mobile Phones

Samsung Electro-Mechanics developed a 3D-camera to be adopted for mobile devices from next year. The company demonstrated 3D images created by the mobile handset equipped with the 3D camera module. According to a company official, the 3D-camera for mobile phone based on human eye system offers realistic and immersive experiential images. The 3D module is on a different level from software technology that merely imitates 3D images, added the official. He also said, “When the module is commercialized in the future, it will offer various lifelike contents through mobile handsets.”

Telecom Korea.

Vloggers are invading the media

According to this article The word “Revolution” might actually be an understatement for what is actually starting to take place. Many of these savvy geeks have always known that the greatest market share would someday be the internet and now they are proving themselves right. While FoxNews.com, NBC, and many of the larger media moguls are smiling that they have their web sites now full of “Free” “Video” content… they might actually be missing the boat.

What Amanda Congdon, of RocketBoom.com and Katrina Stenquist of Mobuzztv.com have that the big media moguls don’t, are not only three minutes of many internet surfer’s attention, but they have true internet syndication through RSS feeds. They and thousand of others are now being downloaded into subscriber’s libraries for future viewing.