Saturday, August 23, 2008

Gnomedex 8.0 - Yoshi Kohno and Gabriel Maganis - Adeona

Private, Open Source Device Tracking
http://adeona.cs.washington.edu, named after the Roman goddess for safe return.

Computer security is the study of how to design and build systems that behave as intended in the presence of malicious third parties.

- security issues can affect any aspect of technology
- security is unintuitive, which makes it challenging (for consumers and innovators.)


Yoshi gives a long explanation of why we want this before he talks about.

Private companies do this, but the information could compromise privacy. EZ pass information has been used in divorce cases (that's the thing that lets you fly by toll booths.)

Gnomedex 8.0 - Eve Maler - The Care and Feeding of Online Relationships

eve.maler@sun.com, www.xmlgrrl.com/blog
human to online application relationships, not human to human like match.com.

We we buy stuff online we fork over private information to get the stuff. This is the real price we're paying. This information is used for digital identity management. This includes identification, authorization, personalization. It is also used in online social networking. This includes connectedness, and collaboration. both of these use differentiated application behavior based on permissioned data sharing.

The social networking world does not put a premium on privacy.

Eve asks, are we giving too much information?

Vendor Relationship Management, how you as a customer can manage all the vendors in your life. (Doc Searls is the guy who came up with this notion.) projectVRM.org.

logging in just to update your profile is (largely) bogus

Those are problems. Here are some solutions examples: calendaring
She's in a band call Mud Junket

She uses Calgoo.com to publish her shared calendars. This is related to "Feeds-based VRM"

othe VRMish behavior in the wild: user-driven data services (health, location, payment, etc.)

"r-card" info cards - data sharing relationships

So there is an architecture out there that can keep your information private and separate from all the different partners (store, shipper, payment service, interaction service, etc.)

Where does OpenId fit in? (she is openid.sun.com/xmlgrrl/)

It is good for logging in (but so could anyother federated ID and even silo'd IDs!)

Gnomedex 8.0 - Josh Bancroft - Best of Ignite Portland

Last night ended with "Where in the Hell is Matt" Dance on the stage, and today begins with our friends from the Willamette River.

once it starts, it goes until it stops, but still the 15 second x 20 slides = 5 minutes with a bit of time in between.

How to buy a car for under 1K - informative
Boiling Water in under 5 minutes (with uranium!)
Cup Noodle history (with japaneeze comics)
Why Deutschland loves David Hasselfoff (eww!, puppies)

videos of all the Portland stuff is on their Website, ignitePortland.com

Friday, August 22, 2008

Gnomedex 8.0 - Brady Forest - Best of Seattle Ignite

If you haven't attended one of these, you aught. presenters get 5 minutes. started in 2006. they were working at O'Reilly. Wanted to do it at a bar. 20 slides x 15 seconds = 5 minutes.

there are now ignites all over the place. http://ignite.oreilly.com

Gnomedex 8.0 - Nathan Wade - Serial Cyborg

Nathan is from DX Arts at UW; researched based art.

He's interested in the persistent engagement with the user.

History of Cyborgs, 60's to now. in the beginning, they thought they would be astronauts (60's). in the 80's Diann Harraway introduced the notion of the Feminist Cyborg, an organizim augmented through technology.

Nathan is looking at the multi-modal organism, or the Mindware Cyborg. ported interactions through media. not crutches, but body extensions.

Serial Cyborg is an artpiece that takes are normal movement through reality and captures the data it presents. He is describing his process but I don't recognize most of the terms he's using.

Ah Art! Cubism, Serialism, Futurism. I recognize those. he uses these concepts to inform what he is doing. a notable piece: boccioni, Duchamp's Nude Descending.

These are artist perceptions of the data. Nathan is using the machine to produce the data and make the art. he starts with his CAM (oh no, back to words I don't know.) Well he makes slices in particle board. the result is a bunch of slices.

then he put the sculpture in the center of a light array, that strobes. This creates movement through space with out moving the object. Cool!

Gnomedex 8.0 - Beth Kanter - Using Social Media for Good Causes

Beth's slides are at:
http://www.slideshare.net/kanter/gnomedex-presentation-presentation

wow, it is such an interesting talk that I haven't been taking notes.

Stories are important in fund raising. (Funny, stories are important to a lot of things. Leadership for example.)

Network Weaving: Relationship building, Reward, and Reciprocity.

well, go see her presentation and her web site. I was too engrossed to write.

Gnomedex 8.0 - Mark Bao, Francine Hardaway - Meet Generation Y

Mark is 16, and not the youngest person here. His company is Avecora.
this generation is (Y.5):

1) more exposed to new technology;
2) creating tech innovators and entrepreneurs;
3) changing career paths, jobs, and influence;
4) used to "the age of data"; and
5) more social & connected.

markbao.com

Francine Hardaway

10 things she grew up without:
facebook, fax machines, google, fedex, microsoft....

things she did have:
privacy, security, clean air, health care, two parents in the household?

conversation ensues between Mark and Francine,

Will Mark ever have a job? he describes the things he's doing and she tells him he doesn't know what a job is. Alarm clocks, cubicles, salaries. but he's already sold 3 facebook apps.

Mark, what place does school have in your life? Don't ask me my GPA. Well, I have to go there for college, and the networking is important. For Francine, school was necessary to get the information and college was necessary to get the skills to get the job...

Mark: true school doesn't focus on the skills that are relevant right now, but if it focused on specialized skills.

Facebook and text messaging are the most important technology to his generation.

Mark, do you think about privacy? most people he knows are not concerned about privacy.

Gnomedex 8.0 - Danny Sullivan - Search Life Meets Real Life

Danny's slides are here: http://daggle.com/080822-215921.html

Google will be 10 years old next month.
Search revolution is now an information retrieval revolution. He thinks change is underestimated.

search is ubiquitous. do you use google or 411 to find phone numbers? which is faster?

google maps: the us navy built a building in San Diego that was shaped like a swastika, but no one knew that until google maps. so the Navy spent $600,000 to change this!

this is an example of search life/real life collision. What has google StreetView pulled up

Chris Silversmith on searchengineland.com has examples of crazy street views.

What's the balance? let anyone remove anything from Google and other search engines?

Ok, now he's calling someone? and now he's calling someone else? WTF? he found the numbers and info for people on google.

So more stuff is searchable, and we don't know what the issues. Should we embrace the idea that there is no privacy?

he has articles about where search is going. look for search 3.0 and search 4.0

Gnomedex 8.0 - Ben Huh - icanhascheezburger

this presentation is at:icanlol.com/gdex-ichc.pdf

before the internet (before Al Gore)
Forumobscene Era - 2004-2006
lolcats, SA, etc
Sharedhostean Era 1/2007 - 4/2007
notimetosleepean Era 5/2007 - 9/2007
Whathavewedone Era 9/2007 - 12/2007
Good solutions are simple solutions
Programmatic Era 1/2008 - 3/2008
insanity is doing the same thing over and over again ans expecting different results

Ben is soo funny!

lotsofblogs Era 4/2008 - present

Planning: concentrate on 30 days at a time.
They get 4000 comments a day

Gnomedex 8.0 - Tara Hunt and Larry Halff - ma.gnolia

Ma.gnolia is a community bookmarking service.

Larry is talking. He defines, Open, and Transparent, elements of the Open Web. Two examples: syndication and microformats. Open standards: OpenID, OAuth, but seriously, will we be able to use these? Is the internet too corrupted for this kind of trust?

What's this about password antipattern?

OAuth - an open protocol to grant API access to programs so you don't have to code in usernames and passwords.

Tara is now talking on Community. she likes the way ma.gnolia is open with thier community, and is always talking with their community. they use Twitter to communicate with their community.

What current problems are they having on the Open Web. Larry mentions single point of failure. another problem is community coherence. Damn Spammers!

so they encourage decentralized sites that use federation.

Open Source
so they announce Ma.gnolia 2.0. Open source and federated.

currently in design phase, code releases start in September.

http://ma.gnolia.org
This presentation is at:
http://www.slideshare.net/lhalff/magnolia-2-at-gnomedex-presentation.

Gnomedex 8.0 - Kris Krug - taking better pictures

good stuff from Kris in 10 minutes. What I picked up was if you want to buy a camera, take your budget, spend one third on the lens, two thirds on on ONE lens. Also ask your pro friends what camera they have and if three of them have the same kind, buy that one.

look at it here: http://www.slideshare.net/kriskrug/gnomedex-photography-presentation/