Jeff Han on Multi-Touch Interfaces
This was a cool demo, but was basically a live version of the
associated video that made the
rounds on the web a few weeks ago. There’s huge potential here, but he
kept doing the same zoom in and out demo over an over. Can’t wait to see
practical availability of this type of device.
Cory Ondrejka on Second Life
I’d heard of Second Life before, but I had
never really seen it before today. Wow. I hacked around with
MUSHes back in college, so it was a
little familiar. But I didn’t realize there were people making real
livings in Second
Life. Who knew you could make $150k a year prospecting virtual real
estate? Cory only had 15 minutes to talk,
so we only got a taste of Second Life. He’s got a full session tomorrow,
so I’ll post more then.
Linda Stone on Attention, the “Real” Aphrodisiac
Unlike the other talks on attention, this one didn’t try and frame it
as an economy, so that’s a good start. Linda talked about this state of
“constant partial attention” that we’re all pretty much in all the time
these days. Her meta point is to value technology based on how it
improves the quality of your life – which of course most technology
doesn’t do today. She also had a great quote: “Email is an attention
chipper shredder. Think Fargo”.
Heh.
Mark Pilgrim on GreaseMonkey
Maybe I’ve been living under a rock, but I’ve never used
GreaseMonkey so I wanted to see what
it was all about. Mark’s a great presenter, so it was a fun session
though it wasn’t as much about GreaseMonkey as you might expect. Mark
spent a significant amount of time on how to become an expert and when
to write (while you’re still filled with wonder and before you become an
expert). Great advice, but at best tangentially related to the topic at
hand. He also spent a bunch of time on how they dealt with some security
issues he discovered. That did lead to some discussion about how
GreaseMonkey works with respect to sandboxing and the like. I guess I’ll
just need to download it and play with it.