Recommendations needed for cool new technologies! Hi all-
I'm looking for ideas for 'what's new in technology' meant to introduce cool or free new stuff that may have some bearing. Please send anything interesting that you've come across to me. It doesn't have to be VOS- related necessarily - anything new and interesting on the web or pertaining to digital media could fit. Just to give you an idea of some stuff covered last time, the main items were: "Turn your computer into a TV." https://www.getmiro.com/about/what-is-miro.php Send FREE messages to any Mobile Phone** No charge for sending. Receiver may incur charges depending on their carrier and plan. http://gizmosms.com/ http://www.text4free.net/ openid: http://openid.net/ Scribd is trying to be the youtube for documents where anyone can upload PDFs, Word docs, etc. They have created an alternative to the PDF format called iPaper which loads faster than a PDF and has some security features that PDF doesn't (e.g. you can't download the documents). http://www.scribd.com/ipaper This is Flash demo that shows a page-turning effect when you click the pages: http://www.rubenswieringa.com/code/as3/flex/Book/ Here's another example of a page-turning effect: http://www.openlibrary.org/details/intlepisode00jamearch pretty cool sounding project to build a highly scalable document storage system: http://incubator.apache.org/couchdb/ Cheap multi-touchscreen and digital whiteboard (and 3d viewer): http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/245 1) The Sophie Project is an open-source multi-media alternative to PDF for books. Here's a short paper describing why an alternative to HTML and PDF is needed for electronic books: http://www.scribd.com/doc/33485/Introduction-to-Sophie Here are a few Quicktime videos of what an early version of Sophie looks like: http://www.futureofthebook.org/sophie/files/Making_a_Sophie_Book.mov http://www.futureofthebook.org/sophie/files/sophie_beethoven_demo.mov And here's the main site: http://www.sophieproject.org/ Ted Nelson, the inventor of the term "hypertext", gave a presentation about "transclusion" or how to include one document within another: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8329031368429444452 Here are some visualization resources that the publishers might be interested in: * There are sites where you can upload a data set and various visualization are generated and displayed: http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/home http://www.data360.org/index.aspx http://www.swivel.com/ Here's a short article about it: http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/01/ibm-wants-many-eyes-on-visuali.html There's a free program called "Processing" which you can use to create visualizations. Here's a gallery of images: http://processing.org/exhibition/index.html Here's a nice chart showing different visualizations (roll your mouse over the squares). http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html - Jason _______________________________________________ vos-d mailing list vos-d@interreality.org http://www.interreality.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vos-d
