Albert Tanutama

Found some presentations from MXDU 2003 which have been converted into Breeze, as well as Oscar Trelles’s Building Data-driven Flash Applications slides. Found interesting Google Hack on helping me to decide what to cook based on what I have.

For nostalgia, look at GUIdebook, that offers a history of every GUI, from command prompts, to GEOS for the commodore 64, through Mac OSX. Interesting Wired’s interview of Rave Award 2004 winners.

Read also Simson Garfinkel’s article on Hard Disk risks. He showed how important it is to sanitize your hard disk (and not just a simple format). Found Bill Flitter’s RSS Neighborhood March 22 Notes, summarizing Scoble’s talk.

Digital Web Magazine compiled list of presentation materials from SXSW 2004. From there I got to find interesting article about The People-Centric Web from Asterisk*. But for tonight, I guess I need to read more about IPOS, for our field study.

This is an interesting comments by Scoble and Eben Moglen regarding making profits of the software. Eben argued that

For the first time in human history, we face an economy in which the most important goods have zero marginal cost. And the transformation to digital methods of production and distribution therefore poses to the twenty-first century a fundamental moral problem. If I can provide to everyone all goods of intellectual value or beauty, for the same price that I can provide the first copy of those works to anyone, why is it ever moral to exclude anyone from anything?

While in the other hand, Scoble consider the profit as incentives and motivation for individual doing their stuffs. I think it is alright for company to make profits out of their products. Else, we might not see some innovative products since there is no incentives of doing it. But, I think I’d like to see innovative pricing scheme. I like the ITunes scheme, where you pay for what you want.

A whole class at MIT analyzed Friendster for their midterm and were asked to “… identify three usability problems with Friendster and write instructions to their programmers on how to fix them.” (via apophenia)

Giles Turnbull asked various people why they gave up blogs.
The various responses are fascinating… (via apophenia)

Fernanda Viegas explored the tension between the ?freedom? experienced by authors in their blog sites and the legal predicaments they are bound to experience as online publishers in the near future.

She has published her findings based on online survey conducted between January 14th and January 21st, 2004. During that time, 486 respondents answered questions about their blogging practices and their expectations of privacy and accountability for the entries they publish online

Visited BodyWorlds exhibition @ Expo today. It was really interesting exhibition, both in term of artistic and its educational values. We’re really fortunate. The past exhibition around Asia have only been done in Korea and Japan.
So what is my impression?
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As I’ve mentioned in my earlier post, I really love file upload feature of MovableType. It was superb, and the thumbnail is automatically created. However, I found that I’ve uploaded a number of pictures that might not be relevant to the original ideas of this blog. Thus, I’ve created separate section on my website to post interesting and neat pictures that I’ve taken or found (with hopefully do not violate any copyrights).

So there you go, “Moment to Relive“

Sandeep - Me @ Flash MX 2004 Launch - Suntec City 19th September 2003
I found a picture of myself via Eugenia Teo. The copyright belongs to her.

I’ve just watched several sessions highlighted in TED and found them really. really. inspiring. For example, Jane Goodal who studied chimps. She noted that chimps could express perfectionist attitude. Robert Full, who developed math model of spring, so that robot could move in uneven surfaces without the need of think. Vik Muniz, who created really interesting arts from wire, threads, and sugar. Bill Gross, who created ’sun flower’ which generates electricity.

I admired these people, who has made a difference, in their live, or even in other people’s life.