[these are just hodge-podge notes. they may or may not make sense. if you have changes or additions to make, email me: amgibb@gmail.com - alicia/anime eyes - yes i was a warewolf - no i'm not narcoleptic and i probably don't grow the vegetables for your village.
BARCAMPNYC3 {rocks my (hello) world}
@ Polytech:
integrated digital media, carl skelton director
combination of creativity strategy and technology
contact: cskelton@poly.edu
also coming up:
blender camp
iphone death camp… hahhaha
law of two feet. cram in. and if you don't want to watch that subject matter, leave. law of two feet.
WHAT’S THE NAME OF THIS TALK AGAIN?:
Discussion w/ meetup guy greg:
widgets
platform to do something - to sell something
friend feed
SOCIAL NETWORKS AND MEASURING:
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom -- woofie factor—soon by Tara --book
clay Sharky - Here Comes Everybody book
social capitol and reputation
inherent value and cost per influence
takes time to build up a good reputation and very easy to destroy
be careful of hierarchy
targeting content rather than advertising -- page rank-- democratic -- attention to self interesting to you
personal search - from google
dave winer
difference between bribery and influence or advertising -- who's listening and who's writing to whom
cpm (?) -- social capitol [giving and how ppl, you perceive it]
defining self - so then what if everything that defines you is recommended. then you don't have a definition anymore. [I think Sanford said that?]
**I want a rotating homepage which can change from day to day!! Do ppl still even use homepages as a landing page anymore? [yo mama prolly does.]
SOCIAL IDENTITY:
create singular account that we need a protocol to fix
open ID
card space (you own the data) and info cards from microsoft
dataprotability.org
Data portability -- linked data
semantic web related identification
help with different user groups - teenagers vs. adults when they find a job maybe have 2 or 3 IDs
permission your roles (serious persona and bland persona)
way to extract authentication and identification
personal service registry and managing
OpenID is a good platform to and then we have to build and discover on there
attributes -- ways you can access and who can access
federated model federated databases -- doesn't link back to your other identities
keychain
open ID - persistent single identity
so - who owns the identity and how does it work / access. and how has that changed online - who owns it online
why trust you - why trust your provider -- trust your openiD provider
I trust flickr with my pics who would I trust with my online id… well. Depends how cute their website is.
DATABASES:
mysql to store data
relational databases not good for storing knowledge
relational databases designed from business models
databases are inflexible and brittle
pointer: field that links two entries together
problem: no object in the system can be stable. no on the fly stuff - everything must be linked ahead of time
solution: graph database. visual. every object stands on its own and the relationships change. so connections can be put in place and put types into the connections instead of the records themselves.
connects objects on the fly. we can add data types more flexibly.
and these are kinds of relationships that are how web 2.0 thinks - and hence the semantic web
but NOW it's too complicated and semantic web is A FAIL.
too far away from the way that regular people build tools.
- KLOUDSHARE**** Store data in the cloud and search for connections
freebase -- structured wikipedia -- open source data knowledge. but have a chicken/egg problem right now
toggle between different views of outline mode, web mode, timelines, different graphs
-- this way as well you can always see how the information is related and see where it is and see an overview of the information
so -- how do things relate. see all information in your universe.
THINGS I SHOULD KNOW:
From http://www.thisisgoingtobebig.com/2008/02/7-product-featu.html
1.landing pages that go right to what you're searching on google so searching for lawn #3 in central park brings back page specifically for that - a landing page.
2.website grader. data sucking for selfish reasons -- in business of selling small business tools
target audiences. comparative data in marketing
helping audience and helping you.
3.management tools for groups. manual tools which are pieced together with specialists. can't screw middleman day one. because those tools that you build are for them, and then you raise above them
business plans -- who currently has the power.
4. crawling data -- how to backfill a database. what does first user do in your system
the chicken and egg problem. figure out how to get enough people first to start a social network because you can't have a social network until you have lots of ppl.
add value to crawled data - pull out keywords or tag it somehow so its structured.
5. revolving email door for data. hmm um email is not dead. particularly with mobile. discuss. discuss is comment system on blogs.
possible then site crawled but never visited. so need to have open site. as much data as possible.
6.people like me -- tiring to have so many relationships and sometimes it doesn't make sense. so just follow.
7. temporary accounts -- not so much of register first now. how much can we give ppl before they need to login. rather than "registering" - "saving" like indeed = you can just hit save. done with cookie
then there’s "save permanently" so functioning differently. tagging and saving for YOU. your friends can tag stuff and save stuff for you. (like evite -- don't create signin)
thisisgoingtobegig.com
instapaper
drop.io
LIFEHACKER:
lifehacker.com
making yourself metacognate
thinking about your thinking
gtd = getting things done
noticing the things you do to work to change the way you think
reward center of crossing off to do lists
plaxo - connecting
'barrier to entry'
keep it simple stupid
make sure it works and trust the system
diet hacks to be more productive buy eating certain food
hacks should make you have to think less
behaviors coming from thoughts
the four hour work week book
ALCHEMY:
bre patterson
fakeadermy – vegan taxidermy . making dead animals.
crowd sourcing people who will make what you want
on the internet more people can watch stuff than would fit in a movie theater.
omg! he worked for Make!
hacker space! nyc resistor place to go to
trick to get what you want: do more than you can actually do
ok : there's something i can't do but i'm going to do it anyway
hackers on a plane
organized chaos technology group -- whitehat hackers -- hacking for good
in germany they think you're the last thing between me and my digital freedom
defcon: hacker conference
ccc: another camp - go!
netsladden - hacker space
@ nyc resistor: hackers in residence program
private beta but they have open show and tell (public events)
when I grow up I want to be a hacker. which is what I’ll do next.
NON BRICA BOX TALK:
something else--
semantic web -- not enough ppl have access to webpages
-- nobody can agree on stuff
-- ppl doing stuff in large quantities
-- can create layers on web but the layer isn't necessarily in the html
-- so - how do you open that up
-- layers: movable type, web content, change management control diff, identity layer, ID system
why would ppl want their content to be more valuable? well, it's good for you because you know what you're doing
long tail question - smart for us to do black boxy stuff but how do we get other companies and ppl let us have access.
white listed (wide (?) listed)
editor update (see it on boing boing)
*this turns blogposts into wikis -- so you just add in some sort of control (like concentrate around semantics) between version control(identity layer) and MT XML RPC (change mang.) layer
not good to have more metadata - more unuseful metadata - more machine readable metadata.
reason he's not worried about ontologies b/c people will just eventually do it.
hope to build something that anybody can edit anything on anybody's page but it's focused like adding metadata -- with version control and other controls.
shortcut search
adding metadata exposes data by being crowd sourced
democratizes free information
tagging summarizes and flattens
[ohance.org]
SOCIAL GRAPHING:
Khare Rohit
links to all the social stuff. google api of social graph.
future of websearch - part of problem is we're searching documents
and documents are put into a social context.
who is responding to whom and who links to whom. -- the relationship is more valuable than the search term being listed
personalized social graph ranking
computerlink.com
KudoRank
Facebook app: hotshots
keep track of new photos from friends
so photos - taken by people - have ppl in them - and have opinions about them
so then we apply to the facebook social graph (mathematical model) -- can star photos and so people are connected through photos too.
uses social graph to find out how we analyze documents (starred by user population)
so you star it first when you take it to give it a default score because otherwise might not be seen
sampling bias
understanding social context of data within strength of connections
xobni.com (hhahaha - inbox spelled backwards)
linear pass and stats of your inbox
see historical change as a differential
comparison of social graph data
and think about what we don't know as well - what relationships are not showing up
zoominfo.com -- synthesizes resume but still classifying and sorting out is hard because it doesn't have a brain
co rank - supposed to be a social digg - - reputation
feed of relationships of ppl
but then there's demographic clustering - ppl who bought this book also bought this book
and that you have different groups of ppl in your life (family, work, friends, etc.)
recommendation based project (additune - music for the mood you're in)
beakon - and advertising -- but what am i getting out of it. -- what's in it for me.
we still need to link the middle together.
T-SHIRTS!:
The incredibly great guys!
we've got gifts for geeks
instantly great tees
my dream app - never actually happened
built very quickly -- looked at open source cart -- zen cart
took a week to build own system
pay pal to process order -- pay pal -- some ppl haven't updated their paypal accts.
monkey business labs!
cute! coupons! css, php, shipping.
Endicia - prints shipping labels for you.... somehow with xml
language - bomb tshirt now called icon because printing bomb on a shipping label is bad
spent $5,000-6,000 dollars on shirts initially
new business is essentially an infant and needs constant care
fun business!!
but shipping is hard. variables beyond your control are hard.
people are really irrational about free stuff.
customer service probs go away when you say i'll throw in a free shirt
it's not about tshirts its about traffic
have a plan. we try to be as candid as possible
special demographics. they tap into one for a specific group.
exit strategy = waiting for print on demand to be set up. finding something better than cafe press - higher printing and your own storefront
inventory strategy - keeping sizes in stock - each is different bar code = every different color and size is a different shirt
paying for warehouse space -- cost of restock
regular joe's who stumbled into business.
e carts = bureau of communication
hard part - getting traffic - you'll spend more time on trafficking and promoting than designing shirts.
ROBOTS!:
simple box mutation
ga's -- little creatures that learn how to cheat
open source it
source forge
justinday.com (?) or justindav.com
add sexual reproduction
stuff evolves. has fitness functions by grabbing things away from the wall and takes values from left most and right most walls
all 2-D
chooses value instead of randomness - nature has some strategies of evolution too.
some are extinct. when tests are run on the population and anyone that gets out is extinct.
jgap -package in java that lets you build genetic creatures (?)
sodaconstructor - flash app
jumping = gravity factor
can turn gravity off
most using gravity of 5 rather than 9.8
add a cute algorithm says bre
in java in calypso environment
GEEK SOCIOLOGY!:
rose white - sociology phd candidate
geek culture and why we're great and taking over the world
sociology = response to urbanization and industrialization - study ppl in groups
house revolution - or - revolution is here just not evenly distributed
doing thing by making things ourselves
working with our hands and minds we're controlling our world and creating social change
organic solidarity based on our interests. like the internet internet being a real place - it's not that our social online communities are not "real" - so they say 'virtual reality'. but it is real, just not embodied
collective effervesce
digital revolution with faster frame rate.
we're harnessing huge amounts of power by creating and connecting huge online communities
max weber says capitol is dead labor which is pretty depressing
pekka himanen - the hacker ethic <3 yay! free information! co-work! open source! unconference!
so we need a sociology that helps us understand the internet being a place and category
lots of ppl talking about geeks from the outside. so what about women and feminist theory, queer theory, geek theory... all these not mentioned so much....
so these guys old sociologists assume so much about culture, gender, ect. that they end up leaving lots of ppl out!
GTD GET THINGS DONE:
task: ideas, documents, mail: file it, trash it, or do it.
get things out of your head. brain is not a filing cabinet
i want to work in the morning then in the evening and play in the afternoon and do nothing then.
mark/chart your changes of energy.
