Rael Dornfest is opening the conference with an emphasis on the hands on imperative, the narrowing of the gap between customer and consumer. The consumer is taking action.
Why?
1. We’re 20 years into the PC era
2. Given enough eyeballs, all features are obvious
3. Advent of the LazyWeb
4. The gospel of Openness is spreading
So why remix rather than hack (the conference theme is remix).
Hacking is remixing, akin to thyming in rap, sampling in dance music, riffing in jazz and blues and ajamming in rock.
Remix your web
View source
Firefox and thunderbird
javaScript
Desktop integration v2.0
Remixing your music
step 1. rip
the music industry’s customers were trying to say something
the music industry wasn’t listening
the customers weren’t listening all that well
Apple was listening
Remix your TV
Any night is Thursday night
Replay offers the 30 second skip
Tivo leaves things open enough
Networks invent the off-by-one minute error
Tivo adds another tuner
Remix your network
apple untethered the laptop
commodity hardware
Remix your movies
BT scares just about everyone (except its users)
VOD on demand acutally provides video on demand time shifing moveis
netflix
Remix your data
scraping begat xml which led to apis
hacks led to standards which in turn led to business opps
Remix your text
blogging made journalism more efficient
remix syndication
rss allowed my netscape to compete with yahoo
rss reinvented syndication
rss flows in my yahoo
everyone monetises rss
remix your bookshelf
prject gutenberg
archivelorg
google print
safari
remix it
be liberal i what you accept, but critical in what you push out
hacks become frameworks become foundations
the raw material grows on trees
remix the browser (again)
remix brick and mortar
the cirle of packages
use amazon to search meatspace
in store pickup re-remixes the physical and virtual
if it ain’t online it is not visible
Etech is all about unreasonable expectations
Tim O’Reilly
What is on O’reilly’s radar:
Design Patterns – Christopher Alexander
Design for participation – a succesfful open source software project consists of small peices loosely joined.
Therefore: architect your software or service in such a way as to be used easily as a componet of a larger system: keep it modular document your interfacesa and use a licence that doesn’t hinder recombination.
USD : there is great benefit in sharing your dev efforts and pocesses with your users.
Syndicated e-commerce
on today’s web, you no longer need to build or own all the components of your application.
eg. isbn.nu
therefore glue together the small pices of others
The perpetual betA
When devices and programs are connected to the internet, applications are not longer software artifacts, they’re ongoing services.
therefore: don’t pacikage up new freatues into monolithic releaseds. rather fold them in on regular. basis. eg. flickr, google etc
pn: definition of beta seems to be emerging – if being constantly mod then in beta
Teh key to comp adv in networded apps is the extent to which users augment your datw with their own.
therefore: architect for tparticaption beyond design and dev: invite your users. users add value to shared data.
eg. amazon – they are getting more and more distinctive as they encourage users to add more and more information to the available commodity data. In contrast to say Barnes and Nobles which does not.
eg. flickr – the users are building the flickr database (commodity data – PN)
only a small percentage of users will go to the trouble of explicitly adding value
therefore: make participation the defult, aggregating user data as a SIDE EFFECT of activity.
The long tail:
many of the limiting factors for distribution are absent on the internet. therefore the power of the computer to monetise niches formerly too small to be commercial. Eg. google adsense
software aboce the level of a singel device
the pc is not longer teh only access point for networked applications.
eg. isync allows you to have your data across all devices.
therefore do not design for a single device
social networking:
social networking are a by-product of social applications like email, IM, photosharing, even book buying
therefore: architect your app to capture and ashare the social fabric underlying your app.
eg. really simple chat
: etech.inroomchat.org/chatlogs
data is the next intel inside
(new conference: Where 2.0 june 29th San Fran)
packets and shipping containers
understand teh optimum packet size for our application domain and devise
o’reilly has re-packaged their books so that they are more web sized packages – eg. hackers series, Make etc
remix
when content is digital it lends itself to being broken down and remixed.
therefore: build your businesss model so as to make your living from the smallest atomic unit.
eg. safari U
what else is on their radar?
ajax – asynch JS plus XML
eg. john odell – walking tour
hardware hacking – car pc hacks, networked objects, fabbing, make
Saul is going to talking about collaborative hardware hacking
ruby on rails www.rubyonrails.com
visualisation: showing vast amount of data flickr colour wheel, baby names
VOIP – skype, asterisk
People – the p in P2P is people
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