Die Versprechen des mysteriösen, sich aber immer konkreter abzeichnenden Semantic Web sind groß. Nichts anderes als dass Maschinen tatsächlich verstehen sollen, was man gerade sucht und die Informationen und möglichen Entscheidungen entsprechend aufarbeiten will das semantische Web liefern. Ein Web der Daten, mehr als Daten im Web.
European parliament offers a nice widget on their European Parliament MySpace site which breaks down essential political questions in a very simple way. Here is the widget I did:
Too bad it does not show the meaning of the symbols but it goes like this: the cat is for taming financial markets, the sun is for solar energy (althought that’s a little short, I believe we need a mix, which includes nuclear energy BUT with a clear stop in the future), the lock is for open borders, the flash for electric energy for cars, the book is for investments in education (instead of agriculture) and the syringe is for genetic agriculture (and I do not mean Monsanto! I believe public science must undertake a much bigger effort than today to find, also genetically driven, solutions to make agriculture more sustainable and productive.
A friend pointed me to this great film trailer iPhone application which does exactly what you expect: List all available trailers with some context information about the movie, shows the trailers, makes the downloadable to a local archive, select between European countries and thus languages, search for titles or other tags like production company genre and so on. Very recommendable!
And here’s the trailerapp trailer:
Developed by filmtrailer.com (Preview Networks) with xTreo
Likemind is a loose group aof people meeting up to enjoy coffee and conversation at an unusual time. Every third friday of a month, at 9 am, people meet and enjoy a sponsored coffee, talking about personal and project stuff, web-related and non-web-related.
It started in NYC, founded by Piers and Noah and soon spread all over the world. Hendrik Berggren started likemind Berlin and now Peter and I have taken over to organize while Hendrik is back in Sweden.
likemind Berlin takes place at St. Oberholz, next will be april 17th. This next likemind is sponsored by tape.tv: Watching music: tape.tv is internet music television. tape.tv offers you a nonstop music video stream with premium content, directly from the labels.
Come around and join us, find the event on Facebook and join our Facebook likemind Berlin group.
It’s all in a little, tiny, universe! Yes, Berlin based art-music-club-community Notic Nastic put it all in a widget: their outer space of secrets, fans, music, videos and other crazy hidden stuff. And every month, there will be something else, people can become part of the collective and submit stuff which will then be featured on the little widgetothingy. So this time there is actually a reason to embed this piece of code to your whatever blog or profile. Do and love or don’t and recieve nothing back either, bitches.
“Students at the MIT Media Lab have developed a wearable computing system that turns any surface into an interactive display screen. The wearer can summon virtual gadgets and internet data at will, then dispel them like smoke when they’re done” [via Wired]
Als normaler Hauptstadtbewohner merkt man es kaum, höchstens wenn einmal ein schön gebrandeter Shuttle-Mercedes vorbei fährt oder der Mitbewohner mit prall gefüllten Taschen von der Bernhard Willem Show im Postbahnhof zurück kommt: Die Fashionweek war die letzten Tage in vollem Gang und neigt sich heute ihrem Ende zu. Zeit für einen kleinen Rückblick. (Bild von m.ariii)
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First, you can get an overview of all articles published on the DLD live blog here.
After three days of intense blogging, live blogging(!), there should be a little resumée. Must be a personal one, naturally, although I aim to grasp some of that spirit hopefully many people sensed in these days of Digital, Life, Design 09.
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I had this idea when I realized how many people twitter about what they are watching on tv right now. Taking a look at my German twitter friends on a sunday night, be sure, almost half of them will comment on the ongoing “Tatort”. But in contrast to stuff from the web, tv shows cannot be linked to directly. Of course, there are pages from tv channels, YouTube videos or blogentries, but there is clearly no distinct system to link to tv shows.
This is a gap to be filled, maybe it is THE gap to be filled for the two systems to grow together. We need URLs for tv shows.
How can this be done? Here is just an idea, feel free to discuss it, take it, rework it and implement it.
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For the most time I have been in my current flat, the little store in the ground floor was filled with a computer store. The guys where nice, even had some hints for me from time to time but obviously they did not suceed with their business and closed last year. Some months later people started to build a café there. This was of great delight to us since we have many bars in our neighborhood but no nice cafés to sit and read newspapers.
In september, Café Solvey opened finally and we instantly became friends with Solvey and her family who run the place. It’s warm and cosy, with very old porcelain, self-made cake, soft armchairs, a kids corner with toys and a fake, yet very well done chemin. And when Solvey asked me to help her out with a website I could not say no. Jimdo was the system of choice to build it fast and easy and when I see now that Solvey herself (who is not a big fan of these “computer things”) edits the events on her page and adds products, I know it was the right decision – Jimdo obviously easy to use. And I earned myself a couple of coffees, breakfasts and cakes!
Take a look at Solvey’s website, more importantly, visit the café if you are around and leave a comment in the guestbook!
