*Wildfire* was quite the system back in the 90s, seems like the Android Dialer or Google Voice could easily implement the best features today.
Some tidbits:
- When summoned Wildfire says "I'm here"
- Whispering in your ear could be done on phone, but also in real life if you had, say Google Glass.
More details from an old Fortune article:
http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/07/08/214362/index.htm
_For now, Wildfire is only for those willing to shell out big bucks. A business with a dedicated server pays an average of ,400 per user to get set up. Independent subscribers who buy the service from authorized service providers generally pay monthly charges of between 50 and 00. Lowering prices is the company's top priority. Competition is looming, but to date no one else has as sophisticated a product on the market._
I don't know much about co-ops and education. But this is an interesting development:
https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/24/google-opens-its-g-suite-for-education-to-home-school-co-ops/
Recruiter pitches from Facebook and Amazon on the same day.
Day is young maybe Apple or Microsoft can chime in too...
Who can beat this [[ping] * [market cap]] record?
*Memes are the Building Blocks of Perceived Reality*
PDF added to my reading list...
https://icitech.org/information-warfare-the-meme-is-the-embryo-of-the-narrative-illusion/
Wired UK with some good coverage of the #platformcoop movement including @resonatecoop
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/the-tech-cooperatives-changing-the-way-startups-do-business
Hi German folks! Please vote out racists like @c_lindner. I'd rather be mistaken in my mentions for singer @patricklindner_.
https://www.politico.eu/article/christian-lindner-german-liberal-fdp-angela-merkel-leaders-bakery-ta...
@freiheit_chris @ulfposh @Markus_Soeder @jensspahn @janfleischhauer @sebastiankurz @janboehm @RobertHabeck @c_lindner Most people mistake me for @patricklindner_
@KeineWunder bah! @ulfposh did you mistake me for @patricklindner_? I suppose that rebels are against Volksmusik too....
Will be interesting to see what Chrome team does with this.
It sure feels like a rollback situation, especially when we're breaking our own stuff.
This was 6 years ago and here I am still using emacs with a fuzzy copy of a Guice dependency injection graph in my head.
https://vimeo.com/36579366
Fantastic performance tonight in San Francisco by @[email protected] She's a fabulous performer and member of Doomtree Collective. Here's a thoughtful interview from 2015 about Doomtree's unique path to success:
http://www.minnesotabusiness.com/dessa-ceo
RT @bradfitz: The video of the @PerkeepOrg talk from @lejatorn and me at @lfnw the other day is already online:
https://t.co/rJSivYts5v
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Because social networks are what we do, you should understand how the bonds Google+ creates can spread contagions (both the good and bad kinds...)
http://ncase.me/crowds/
Reading "The World of Knowbots" from "The Digital Library Project". circa 1988
http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/kahn-cerf-88.pdf
Thievery Corporation's Treasure from the Temple is on Resonate Coop:
Click through from https://thieverycorporation.com/treasures/
Give it some mutual aid :) If you're a member it's a good album, if you're not a member plz sign up!
xpost: https://social.coop/web/statuses/99893173661512731
Also: _"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by ignorance, however, any sufficiently advanced ignorance is indistinguishable from malice."_
https://mastodon.starrevolution.org/@Laurelai/99820508505212563
It'll be a a rich tapestry of technology, philosophy, ethics, and activism.
https://decentralizedweb.net/
I've had a deja vu feeling about Maven for awhile and finally was able to put my finger on it...
I present to you a clip from the 1985 film _"Real Genius"_.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTx_qTwQqjU
Cleaning up my Xmarks bookmarks so I can import them into @pinboard before they disappear forever. Interesting look back at the default bookmarks that came with Safari/IE etc.
https://helpdesk.xmarks.com/bookmark-manager-basics/import-and-export/
Get ready for GDPR with avocado and sprouts on whole grain bread (aka California Style)
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2182
Get ready for GDPR with avocado and sprouts on whole grain bread (aka California Style)
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2182
MLS provides a security layer for group messaging applications with from two to a large number of clients. It is meant to protect against eavesdropping, tampering, and message forgery.
Whoa, Ratchet trees...
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-barnes-mls-protocol-00
In an alternate timeline Google Gadgets survived and iGoogle evolved into ARCS.
But seriously, go read this and think about how the world might be different if we could split up the data hosting (into Google Cloud) and the Application Serving. What kind of world would we have then?
Once you've digested that read the User Sovereignty doc
http://go/user-sovereignty
I think efforts like this are key if we want Google to grow even larger than it's current size without being regulated to death.
Trap my contacts? If only... (2010)
https://techcrunch.com/2010/11/10/google-gets-feisty-kicks-data-portability-fight-with-facebook-up-a...
Feature request for OnePick
_To make sure that whatever aspect ratio a thumbnail is displayed in, it doesn’t cut off important bits, the new “crop” function allows you to select a focal point (or “focus” point) on the uploaded picture._
http://b/75321272
Sherlog broken, caldav broken. Oh yeah 5110 group memberships (again)
#pupp right +112225569907336841303 ?
http://go/ggg-membership-limit
Everything in our world will soon be technology-mediated. @anildash offers some wisdom on how we can make these changes in a net-positive way. Recommended.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/12-things-everyone-should-understand-tech-anil-dash/
Having an open gadgets proxy seemed like a good idea at the time ....
cc +117058620747746997157 +104255968520200310944 +117182841818214159116 +105204674682005429647
https://blog.confiant.com/zirconium-was-one-step-ahead-of-chromes-redirect-blocker-with-0-day-2d6180...
... now I want to see Pong at TGIF via paddles. Oh and please be aware of the control you have and unintended consequences of the the systems you design. kthxbye
_It was a blistering July day in Las Vegas, with temps hitting 109. Inside the SIGGRAPH 91 convention hall Yello's Rubberbandman looped on the speakers. On each chair: a red/green paddle._
http://www.1500wordmtu.com/2018/when-pong-played-humans
I'm at https://t.co/Em6L1vORW9 and will POSSE there. I love the self-hosting ethos of #indieweb (and rough edges of this bookmark post) -- but sometimes you need to work together to accomplish a larger goal. That's where coops shine. https://t.co/lZiOSw0fVa
Scrobbling for @resonatecoop is now available thanks to the efforts of Malachi Soord @inversechi
https://github.com/web-scrobbler/web-scrobbler
Think GDPR will easy? Think again.
A group named NOYB has already raised 300k euro in donations and will start filing cases on May 25th.
Only 78 days to go...
https://noyb.eu/
Heard a CashCall radio ad to refinance and “buy the bitcoin dip”. Shades of 1999 #bubble when our WaMu loan officer told us to invest our down payment...
Highly recommended talk by @aparrish that illustrates #cybernetic principles of The Law of Requisite Variety and the Good Regulator Theorem.
http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/programming-forgetting-new-hacker-ethic/
A strong argument for the recent changes to promo. I wonder if we'd had this in the past this person would have gotten promoted?
Also one of these days I'm going to write a "Why I stay at Google" post.
https://mtlynch.io/why-i-quit-google/
brb checking my memcached commits on github.
I also think there's a future for a Branding Agency specializing in vulnerability names. We're no longer content with CVEs any more.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/memcrashed-major-amplification-attacks-from-port-11211/
Friday #stream2own update for @resonatecoop. I discovered the esteemed electronica duo @Coldcut has their catalog there. Nine listens means I now own "Quality Control" and other tracks.
https://resonate.is/profile/546/
...a stronger take on decentralization.
Instead of the Chris Dixon post just read the essays here. Most are well thought out and timely. The blockchain/crypto essay by Rachel O’Dwyer specifically calls out crypto fallacies:
- We can replace time-consuming social processes with elegant technical solutions.
- The technical can instantiate new social or political processes.
Decentralization is really about People, Power and Agency.
And I believe that we at Google can give more power and agency to the creators, developers and consumers that rely on our platforms.
http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/ours-to-hack-and-to-own/
Dynamic AMP Emails? Sounds familiar.....
[I worked on the LinkedIn implementation since it was all oauth based..]
https://techcrunch.com/2010/12/16/hotmail-active-views-look-to-make-email-interactive/
Curious if anyone uses something to replace paper notebooks?
As Google becomes more heavily regulated I wonder if we'll have to start using software like this? We do run many "Experiments" after all...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ELN_software_packages
Here's my first friday #stream2own update for @resonatecoop. With 9 listens I now own 'Doll' by @feralfive off the excellent Man Cat Doll Machine EP.
https://resonate.is/song/3095/feral_five-doll/
As a long time @matrixdotorg supporter I'm very happy with this new funding that provides long term viability.
https://matrix.org/blog/2018/01/29/status-partners-up-with-new-vector-fueling-decentralised-comms-an...
Online Communities. Corp Culture. Headcount. Machine Resources. These and much more can also be considered _"The Commons"_. (As in the "tragedy of the...")
If the commons are failing you should look to Ostrom's design principles to understand why. Christopher Allen's adaptation of these principles is a good intro.
http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2015/11/a-revised-ostroms-design-principles-for-collective-governanc...
#googplus