In response to my griping about the Corbis NDA, Paul points to to one of his non-chron bloggish entries. Excerpt:

When I’m at an early stage in developing a new business plan, I just write the following at the top of the plan:

“Confidentiality: Paul asks that you not show or tell anyone this idea without first calling him at 781-648-1500 to ask his OK. If you tell one person you trust, they will tell one person they trust, and so on. If this idea gets out too early, Paul’s business could be ruined. Thanks.”

This “NDA” actually builds trust rather than erodes it the way most do.

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I’ve taken a quick pass through Queryster.com, and I’m impressed. It’s a metasearch site developed by a small team headed up by Jeff Kang. From an email from Jeff:

It’s a team effort (a developer friend and myself) that made the Queryster Search Network. The objective is to make Web search easier and more fun. Also it would serve as a showcase for what we can do technically. We hope to turn our skills into a website development business.

Queryster has been online for two months now, and recently we have received a few positive feedbacks and suggestions for improvement. …

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Bob Herbert’s column today in the NY Times — “Bliss and Bigotry” — made me cry. It’s a good column, but it did not provoke my sadness and anger so much as allow it. I keep surprising myself with how much the issue of gay marriage means to me. Every day I find it means more.

When I was a young a-hole in the ’70s, my line of grad school patter said that homosexuality is an inferior form of love because the sex carries no risk. (Yeah, those were the days.) Homosexuals sex acts lack the existential possibility of creating new life, I’d maintain, affecting my best Norman Mailer-esque pose. This gave me sufficient cover for my homophobia even with my gay friends. But, as I became an older a-hole and saw those friends form relationships as loving as the best of my straight friends, I stopped spouting that particular form of stupidity. I shut up, and was a better person for it. Funny how often that works.

I thought my patter was cocktail-party interesting, but it was just a spin on the mainstream bigotry that pinned itself on the “promiscuity” of “the gay life style.” No commitment. No love. Just sex sex sex.

So, now we have gay couples standing in line to foreswear promiscuity, to embrace commitment and love. But it turns out that it’s not just their way of having sex that’s unacceptable to us. Even their love isn’t good enough.

Well, God damn a country that turns away love, that would diminish love, that would deny love. What purer gift could we be offered?

Aren’t we commiting the very sin that brought God to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah? It sure wasn’t because their citizens were just too deeply in love with one another.

History may give Bush a pass for his doctrine of preemptive war, because the country was traumatized by 9/11. It may chuckle ruefully at the brazenness of his oligarchical partisanship. But I do not think history will forgive George W. Bush’s attempt to turn our Constitution against the love our children have for one another.

And if history will, I won’t.

It’s a shame that John Kerry is once again taking a position that’s politically convenient. We could use a leader right now.

[Cross posted at Loose Democracy]

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I found out this morning that I’ve been offered a fellowship at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard. I start officially in July.

What a great opportunity! I’m thrilled.

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I spent yesterday underground at the Bettman Archive, the “picture mine” as Dirck Halstead calls it in an excellent article. The Bettman is one of the largest and most important collections of photographs, 11 million all told. They were moved from Manhattan to a former limestone mine in Pennsylvania in 2001 on the recommendation of Henry Willhelm, an authority on preserving photographs, not just because the site has iron gates and armed guards but more importantly because there they can be kept at sub-zero temperatures. Willhelm — who I got to talk with yesterday — believes that the photographs, which had been deteriorating badly, will now last for thousands of years. And it’s not just the photographs and negatives that were at risk: They are kept in paper sleeves that contains the metadata vital to finding and making sense of the images.

Bill Gates’ Corbis company owns the archive. Gates is personally responsible for the decision to pack the archive into 19 semi trucks and move it to safety.

Here are some snaps.

The card catalog.

Ledger from 1926 listing entries in a sub-collection

The archive

Further back in the archive

Photo of Mussolini holding the “Sword of Islam,” and a sleeve with the photo’s metadata.

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Ok, first read the warning label in the orange ellipse to be puzzled, if not outright disturbed. Then notice the little baby doll decorations and be relieved.

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How’d I miss this press release announcing that “Bob Siemon Designs is manufacturing and distributing officially licensed products for Mel Gibson’s new film ‘The Passion of the Christ’”? Available are lapel pins and pocket reminders that feature a “beautiful rendition of the Cross from the movie.” At least they don’t have a sticker across them saying, “As seen in Mel Gibson’s ‘The Passion’!”

Well, I suppose Mel has to make a buck somehow since the movie didn’t have a lot of opportunities for product placements.

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1. GPS The GPS I rented from Avis for $10/day sucks. In the course of a 40 mile drive from the Pittsburgh airport to Butler PA, I got lost eight times.

The Avis GPS is a cell phone that audibly announces your turns and shows a graphic indicating which way you turn and how immediate the change is. That works ok once you get used to it. But the street data is terrible. It told me to take turns that don’t exist and didn’t tell me about road forkings that do exist.

A nice thing about the system: You can set your destination address not just by laboriously using the phone pad as a keypad, but also by calling a human operator will do it for you for free.

2. NDA I have many good things to say about Corbis, whose HQ I visited on Monday. It’s a fascinating place, very much in the metadata business. I got to talk with some of their image cataloguers and the person responsible for their thesaurus of terms and concepts. Really interesting. (And thanks to Dov Schiff, an extraordinarily helpful PR guy.) That said, I almost didn’t make it past the front door. When you sign in, you’re given a non-disclosure form that is short and to the point: You are forbidden from sharing any proprietary information (ok) and anything you learn on site is considered proprietary (not ok). Since I was there to write about Corbis as part of a Wired article, how could I sign their agreement?

This isn’t a case of overly-strict lawyering. It’s overly-stupid lawyering. It’s also very much contrary to the personal style of the half dozen people I met with, each of whom was friendly, open, personable, and eager to talk with real enthusiasm about what they do.

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Heard on “All Things Considered” this afternoon: A lobbyist for the junk food industry replies to the idea that his ads ought to be banned from kiddie TV shows by saying that that would embroil us in a “fruitless conversation” about what constitutes junk food.

Fruitless, indeed. Isn’t that the point?

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If I were getting married today, I think I’d opt for a civil union instead. Limiting marriage to heterosexuals feels so arbitrary that it’s, yes, weakening the institution for me.

I could argue in favor of my position, and you would hear nothing that you hadn’t heard from others. But I don’t think we change our minds about moral issues through argument…

More…

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Mitch has a column at Red Herring alerting us to the Bush administration’s opening shovel-loads in its undermining of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Yes, I’m confused by the issue also. That’s why I’m recommending Mitch’s column…

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I’m looking forward to the second BloggerCon.

In announcing it, Dave says he’s going to ask each of the moderators to work “Nuking the Echo Chamber” into the discussion. Dave asks: “How do we methodically and systematically overcome the tendency for echo chambers to form and self-perpetuate?” I’m still stuck on the prior question: Are there echo chambers? Are they what we think they are? Are they common? Does their existence mean that participants have closed their minds, or are they conversations that serve a different, but legitimate, social purpose?

What I liked most about last year’s BloggerCon was that it brought together a great bunch of people who shared an enthusiasm for blogging. A conference devoted to openly debating the topic “Blogs: Pro and Con” might also be useful, but it wouldn’t diminish the value of BloggerCon. We believers need a chance to get together, too. Sure, BloggerCon permits contrary points of view, but it’s distinguishable from the “Pro or Con” conference in tone and topic. And that’s a good thing. BloggerCon helps build community and advance thought by letting us be passionate, without having to back off, argue for fundamental principles with which we already agree, and persuade others of the legitimacy of our enthusiasm.

That’s exactly what many alleged “echo chambers” do. And it is not only a good thing but is a requirement for building social groups.

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Some folks have started a futurist/singularity/cosmic sort of blog. I’m not much of a believer in the thought-is-software idea and have only achieved enlightment a couple of times in my life and then it came in the form of a pill, but the site is lively in the Bucky way and is full of colorful illustrations.

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I’ll be on the road through Wednesday, researching an article for Wired on how we end-users are going to find the snapshots we’re looking for when we each have 25,000+ photos on our desktops.

I’m leaving tonight to visit Corbis on Monday. They have a few million photos, so they’ve given this issue some thought. I’m particularly interested in how they create and manage the taxonomies and other metadata.

Then, after traveling all day Tuesday, I’ll spend most of Wednesday in the Iron Mountain hole in the ground where Corbis stores its prints and negatives.

The article is not about Corbis, though. Corbis, I hope, will give a way into some of the issues. I’ve already spoken with a bunch o’ folks about what’s going on in this field. If you know of someone I should talk with about how we’re going to manage the oceans of digital photos we’ll be storing, let me know…

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Excuse me, but technically speaking, aren’t bees animals and doesn’t beeswax come from one end of the bee or another?

And while I’m on the topic, when the movie credits boast “No animals were harmed in the making of this movie,” does that mean that they served only vegetarian food to the cast?

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Denounce.com updates the discovery that if you tilt Pepsi bottles just right, you can see if they’re winners in the iTunes contest.

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Salon this morning is running an article of mine about the “echo chamber” meme, i.e., the idea that the Net encourages members of groups to listen only to their own opinions. I think it’s a confused meme that diverts attention from the real echo chambers, beginning with the mainstream media.

And then there’s the extreme case of a president who doesn’t even read the newspapers:

I get briefed by Andy Card and Condi in the morning. They come in and tell me. … I glance at the headlines just to kind of a flavor for what’s moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves. … And the best way to get the news is from objective sources. And the most objective sources I have are people on my staff who tell me what’s happening in the world.”

Joe Conason points out that maybe this is why the President thinks we invaded Iraq because Hussein wouldn’t let inspectors in, that he (W) has been cutting discretionary spending more than Clinton did, and that his new budget “cuts the deficit in half in five years.”

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Am I proud that I find this about Osama and this about razor blades funny? Nah. But I might as well admit that I sort of like this, too:

Iowa Resident Has Opinion Month Too Late
STORM LAKE, IA—Four weeks after the Iowa Democratic caucus, livestock farmer Darryl Welch, 48, expressed an informed opinion about the candidates Monday. “I like what John Edwards says about rebuilding international alliances to fight terror, but I think some of the programs he supports would mean higher taxes,” Welch said Monday. “I wish I’d have said that to all those AP reporters, instead of telling them that I didn’t know who I wanted to vote for yet.” Unfortunately, Welch’s opinions will not be relevant for another three years and 11 months.

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Via BoingBoing comes this timely meme from a Twin Cities blog: Send a bouquet of flowers to one of the gay couples getting married in San Francisco. Flowers on the Bay will deliver your bouquet to a random couple. Anonymity seems to go both ways in this case, so it’s suggested that cards say, “With love, from Boston, Massachusetts.” “Call it The Big Gay Bouquet call it Flowers from the Heartland. Call it whatever you want, but help us get this off the ground. ”

I called Flowers on the Bay (1 888 217 9119) but the line was busy. They just called back and recommended Mariner & Co. flowers at 800-797-7744. It’ll cost you about $50.00. Mariner alone is doing 30-50 deliveries a day. “It’s just fantastic,” says the very nice woman at the store.

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Scoble writes about his Corporate Weblog Manifesto. Good stuff. (Via Doc via Loic.)

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Dan Gillmor points to a page that tells you how to figure out if your Pepsi bottle is a winner in the free iPod song contest. Says Dan:

Once upon a time, Pepsi would have reconciled itself to knowing that people in one or two communities were in on the design flaw. Now they have to know the news is everywhere.

And in a related story, Michael O’Connor Clarke provides all the answers you need to win a free trip to Florida. See you in Miami!

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The people re-creating the cultish game Paranoia (about which I know nothing) have a blog where they’re talking about the process and the business.

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I’m talking at the Wireless Future conference. Here comes the blurb:

Time is running out to register for the Wireless Future conference, which will be held March 12-16 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas. Explore the future of licensed and unlicensed wireless technology with such luminaries as Howard Rheingold (author of Smart Mobs), Kevin Werbach (organizer of Supernova and author of New America Foundation’s Radio Revolution), Cory Doctorow of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the legendary Dave Hughes, David Weinberger (author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined, Dewayne Hendricks of Dandin Group, Joichi Ito of Neoteny, Ltd., Dan Gillmor of the San Jose Mercury, John Quarterman and many more! This is a great conference for wireless entrepreneurs, business strategists, developers, inventors, creative thinkers and anyone else interested in the promise of mobile technology. Sponsored by Andrews Kruth, Metrowerks, Motion Computing, RockSteady Networks, The Futures Lab, Polycot Consulting, Austin Wireless Alliance and Ink PR. [Link to Wireless Future] [Direct Link to Registration - currently $225.00 for four days, includes access to South by Southwest Interactive programming.]

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There are interesting facts and ideas at this intro to Alfred Crosby’s The Measure of Reality. For example, did you know:

Because Europe did not straddle the equator, and because old traditions dictated twelve hours for each day and each night, Europeans developed a system of unequal “accordion-pleated hours that puffed up and deflated” so as to ensure a dozen hours for each daytime and each nighttime, winter and summer.

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A couple of pictures. Insert your “Awwwwwwww” here: _____________________.

Awwwwwwwwwww!

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Here and Now is running an interview with me (I’m their tech commentator guy) today about GIS and mapping. It’ll run in Boston at around 12:20, probably, on WBUR; the show is syndicated to 40+ NPR stations. You may be able to hear it on the Internet here or here.

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From eagle-eyed Mike O’Dell comes this image, which he says is “pretty hard to explain.”

No argument here.

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While I was away at Emerging Tech, the electric company installed a special meter on our incoming line to see if the voltage is clean and sober. The guy left it there for three days.

When he picked it up, he told us that he’d have to do it again because the machine broke.

Coincidence? I think not….Bwahahahaha.

Meanwhile, I have now thrown out my bookshelf-style stereo system because it lost all bass and the remote stopped working; the tuner can only be tuned through the remote. (Yes, I did put in new batteries. And I did get a Mac.)

For those who care (= no one) I’ve replaced the stereo with a $25 set of Creative Labs speakers for my laptop which will now serve as my tuner as well as my CD player. Nice sound! (Ah, the benefits of middle aged hearing loss!)

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According to the side of the Cheerios box, if we send in $5, First Book will “give children from low-income familes the opportunity to own their first new books.”

As school districts routinely ask parents to chip in to pay for the basic supplies the school needs, it’s good to know that educating our children – a basic government service – is being outsourced to General Mills.

Look, I’m glad Cheerios is asking us to support a charity, and First Book seems to be a worthy group. I’m just not enough of a libertarian to prefer largesse to taxes when it comes to the government’s basic obligations.

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I took the red eye back from Emerging Tech Thursday night, napped a little on Friday but otherwise put in a full day, and have been asleep ever since with what appears to be a virus thingy. I even missed having a family lunch with Seth Gordon, which I had been looking forward to.

Here’s a further indication of just how knocked out I’ve been: I haven’t checked my email since Friday night.

I offer this final bit of evidence: On Saturday morning, I watched all of Chain Reaction, starring Keanu Reeves, my mind feverishly weaving in and out of the plot holes.

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Cory has altered the Creative Commons license on Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom so that almost any non-commercial adaptation of it does not require his permission. If you want to turn it into a movie or republish it via skywriting, please go ahead.

BTW, you can read the text of Cory’s talk at Emerging Tech here.

Speaking of Cory, I ran into him in the speakers room at Emerging Tech where he was throwing out a print-out of his speech. I randomly snagged a piece that turned out to be peculiarly relevant, so I had him sign it:

Click for full-size image

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It’s one of those little mysteries of the Web, but a one-line blog entry of mine that does nothing but point to John Perry Barlow’s moving memory of Spalding Gray has accreted a set of stories and tributes on my comment board that is quite remarkable.

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In response to my post about a Microsoft presentation at Emerging Tech, Bob “Professor” Morris points us to a Microsoft page that explains something important about its XML schema for Word, Excel, etc.:

Microsoft may have patents and/or patent applications that are necessary for you to license in order to make, sell, or distribute software programs that read or write files that comply with the Microsoft specifications for the Office Schemas.

So, Microsoft’s patents prevent me from writing a program that reads a Word XML file? Wow, that’s harsh.

And besides, isn’t “schema” already a plural?

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Don Box of Microsoft, responsible for Longhorn Indigo (communications tech for building Web services, or “the SOAP messaging stack” that Don works on), is talking about how Microsoft is going to support standards, really this time. He says the following:

WordML, the current Word format, is optimal if you’re a Word author, but is unusable if you are trying to do interesting XML-y things with it, like write an app to process it. It’s designed to work well for Word. When Microsoft shipped it, people had a normal, human, emotional reaction: They hated it. Microsoft said that it didn’t expect you to author it, only to process it.

[A whole bunch of stuff I don't understand it, and then:] We will be able to extend the Microsoft file system by providing our own schema. (Marc Cantor calls out that this is “really coolio, dude.”) “This isn’t just about the API. This is about data extensibility,” says Don.

Indigo is about “service-orientation” rather than object orientation. “We don’t want you to run .Net on your Linux box.”

[More stuff I didn't understand. I'm not complaining, mind you.]

[Since I am obviously in over my head - feel free to explain it to me - I should perhaps report that both Bob Frankston and Marc Canter, off line, were favorably impressed with the direction Don sketched.]

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I have an idea! Let’s all get together and not care!

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Don’s new book is Emotional Design.

He uses lots of photos, so the following minimalist representation will not have the, um, emotional impact of his talk.

People have emotional reactions to, and relationships with, products. Positive examples: A tiny Sony camera and Mini Cooper.

We have two information processes: Cognition (understanding the world) and emotion (judges the world). There are three levels: Visceral (biological and pre-wired), behavioral, and reflective.

Bottled water is their bottles. A Perrier bottle is emotional. A cheap plastic one is behavioral. Those fancy blue bottles appeal to us viscerally.

The 1961 Jaguar E-type (the one in the MOMA) is designed viscerally.

Remote controls (channel clickers) are behavioral remote controls. He recommends the Harmony controller that doesn’t tell you “control your DVD” but “watch a movie.”

The car seat controllers that look like seats are behavioral design.

Hummers are reflective design, although their ads are visceral.

How dress is usually reflective design.

We often neglect sound in design.

People either hate or love the Apple iMac. “That’s a sign of great design.”

He tells us about the last two chapters of his book because people don’t like them.

The Honda robot looks like a person and there’s no reason for it. Robots ought to look like what they’re designed to do.

The Roomba is visceral in that it doesn’t fall off cliffs. But it’s called a robot primarily for marketing reasons. Don’s coffee maker is more of a robot – cost $1,000, has more motors in it than Roomba. and is smarter. It just doesn’t move. Robots will evolve by being connected to others, e.g., coffee maker connected to pantry and to dishwasher. There will have to be a mobile robot to connect them. That robot needs boredom and frustrated, a “weak method” for getting out of problems we wouldn’t have anticipated: “I’m stuck in a corner” so I’m frustrated, or “I’m sitting in front of the coffee machine for 20 minutes,” so I’m bored and will go find something else to do.

Q: What about Amori’s “uncanny valley”

A: The question is what your robot ought to look like. Coffee makers ought to look like coffee makers. Amori says that the more it looks like a person, the more unnerving it is. When it looks like a person but doesn’t act like one, there’s a valley and we hate it.

When I say “put emotions in machines,” I’m not saying we should put real human emotions. We should put in emotional systems appropriate to the machine. [He's not thinking about machines feeling things, but rather having control systems that function the way emotional systems do.]

Q: [Mark Canter] Pure text or drop shadows and bevels?

A: It depends on the function. BTW: “Jakob Nielsen in his private life likes beautiful things.”

[Great talk. Provided a vocabulary for talking about an area of life, presented via great visual examples and a humble manner.]

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Lily Cheng from Microsoft Research is talking about how people represent themselves on line.

The closer the friends, the fuzzier they want the representations.

We need to make social tools fluid enough to account for the way people’s lives change.

We need easy access to friends and people important to us. We want sponatenous interactions.

Lily’s group went to a mall and asked people to draw their social interactions, and gots lots of circles and lines. Microsoft studied this and built a “personal map” that clusters people based on who they send email to (TO and CC) and how frequently. The system knows who is related to whom based on their interactions. Then Lily’s group mapped all the distribution lists at Microsoft, clustered around the inquiring individual; the app lets you see how to get to person C through person B.

Another presenter (missed his name) shows an app (Koala?) that shows me details about the people in my social network.

Will people use this, Lily asks. What effect would it have? Would it make people feel more connected? They’re going to do some research…

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The rumor going around etech is that Clay and his wife are the parents of a girl! Woohoo! Mazel tov to the entire family. A world with more Shirkies is a better world for all of us.

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Dan Brickley is explaining Friend of a Friend. (I had a chance to talk with him about this yesterday in a hallway.) It’s an XML standard that allows people to express information about themselves…the sorts of things you might say on your homepage. There are currently 2M FOAF descriptions in the world.

There are different styles of FOAF files. You can be very explicit about relationships: “Jane is my arch nemesis.” But there’s also a more implicit, evidence-based approach: Libby and I went to the same school and work for the same organization. (“I lean toward this one,” says Dan.)

Here’s a paragraph from the official FOAF FAQ:

FOAF provides conventions for saying the sorts of things that you might say in your homepage (‘My name is…’, ‘I work for …’, ‘I’m interested in …’, ‘I live near …’, ‘I’m pictured in these photos…’, ‘I write in this weblog…’), but in a way that is easy for computers to process. Since computers are pretty dumb, and can’t read human languages, we provide simplistic FOAF descriptions, to help them answer questions such as ‘Show me pictures of Weblog authors interested in … who live near here’, ‘Show me recent articles written by people at this meeting’, ‘Is this person vegetarian?’. FOAF is a ‘Semantic Web’ project, which is an effort to make the Web easier for machines to help us navigate.

As Dan said recently on his blog: “A purpose of FOAF is to engineer more coincidences in the world.”

“We’re on the border of going mainstream.” The social, legal and pricacy issues need serious attention, says Dan.

Now Edd Dumbill is talking about FoafBot. I had trouble hearing him because I’m in the back, but apparently it provides IRC channels with information gained by spidering FOAF files. Cool.

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Pertti Korhonen from Nokia is talking about the effect of mobile computing.

What do we need to unleash the potential? We need to simplify the user experience of rich environments, for example by bringing touch into the picture: Point and touch your mobile device. He touches his mobile device to a book. It makes a connection to an RFID tag. Now it can open a web site, push an app to his device, or it can push info to his peers.

Two ways of getting to super mobile devices: Try to shrink a PC or try to grow the simple mobile device to enable the new apps. Nokia likes the second approach.

We want personalization: Playing with ringing tones, new covers, etc. “We need to extend and encourage this type of human creativity.” [Could have used some exciting examples. ]

We are looking at how people want to share information. P2P is in the mainstream.

He shows Modish: Mobile distribution and sharing. It works with GPS radio and BlueTooth. Create groups. Capture. Publish.

His most important message today: Openness. Open interfaces and open standards to insure that the maximum amount of innovation can take place. Globally agreed Internet standards making their way to cellphones. Nokia builds on top of Symbian. They have a platform on top of Symbian designed for designing apps and UIs.

This year they will ship 100M devices with Java . “That’s a lot of sockets.” Java is “the prime end-to-end platform we want to support.” They also support Python.

Example of an innovative app: Photoblogging. 400,000 tools and docs are downloaded every month — quite an active developer community.

He demos a simple program that navigates weather info.

We need to start a lively conversation with Internet experts about what to do to enable groups.

Q: It’s great that Nokia isn’t openness and innovation, but the carriers aren’t. Can use your influence to explain to them the importance of open standards? [applause]

Q: Your developer tools are generally Microsoft only. How about Linux and the Mac? [applause]

A: We’ll be releasing new tools. We think it’s important not to be single-platform.

Internet technology will enable integration across domains. IPv6 is important, too, because it will enable device-to-device addressing will be possible, making P2P possible.

Q: How about DRM?

A: It’s important that we put DRM in. The field has been fragmented, but we think it’ll come together.

(Overall, he’s made an impressive case for Nokia’s commitment to openness.)

[The incredibly helpful Greg Elin ("He gives and gives and gives..."), sitting next to me, is more impressed with this talk than I am. He's hearing that the rest of the world forms the same personal relationship with their phones that we in this room (and in this country to some extent) form with our PCs.]

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