November 30, 2007
Web2.0 has brought a great amount of data and people have the need to gather the ones that matter for them in order to consume. For now, you can have all the info in netvibes (or other widget system), you can have them all in your RSS reader (since all the information cames up in RSS nowadays), but it is a pain for those who have a lot of interests to catch-up with everything happening on the web. People came up with a lot of complex GTD ideas to make it possible. As for me, I just read blogs through Google Reader and for all the rest (twitter, photos, videos…) I use Flock, which is a great social browser.
There is now a format that joins all this information with a level of interest for you. It’s called APML and it stands for Attention Profiling Mark-up Language, that work as a OPML not only for feeds, but also for other data and gives them a attention value for tags. It’s the Web2.0 Folksonomy in its best shape!
But of course all this standards don’t mean a thing if there aren’t uses for them. You can check some examples of APML usage as I did. One of the tools that interested me was Particls, one cool sidebar that shows content that is relevant for me (you can set it up by using tags and adding your own feeds). It also orders news by the interest they have to you. It’s definitely a anti-GTD application, but might be useful for you if you are a journalist or you activity needs you to be in constant track of some themes.
June 23, 2007
Yesterday I attended a Workshop about Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems that took place at DEI. It was a very interesting experience, so in the next days I will post about some presentations that delighted me, starting today.
The first one was given by Marta Figueiredo and André Teixeira (who I will be working with in the next months). Despite being the youngest presenting their project, they had the courage to make a live demo.
Before presenting the project itself, they talked about Mobile Tagging, how it’s already being used in Japan and its possibilities. Imagine yourself reading a magazine and want to go to a website written there with a long address. Wouldn’t it be simpler to take a photo with your PDA or mobile phone, and view it?
Marta and André applied this concept to a museum where there were datamatrix codes associated with every painting. This allowed visitors using a PDA to take a photo of the code, and see more information about the artwork. It worked together with the floor plant of the museum, so people could know where they were, and the whereabouts of they favorite painting. It worked just fine with a mobile client and a server containing all the data accessible by WiFi. They also added voting and commenting possibilities that were shown in the demo.
I’m looking forward to see more solutions and innovations using Mobile Tagging, either barcodes, datamatrix or RFID.
February 28, 2007
I've just finished my own tagging system.
It's very very simple and I like it :) The main reason I made it was to test Pungi's relation N-N capabilities.
When I got time, I'll add more links for you to check.
