Michael Braly

Seattle Mind Camp 3.0 Tickets

Tickets for Seattle Mind Camp 3.0 go on sale Monday, August 28, 2006 at a discount. The unconference will be held November 11-12 at the same location as last year.

The camp last year was great. Here are my notes from last year.

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Two Minute Idea Slam

This session is devoted to ideas, readings

Book: The timeless way of building.

www.u10do.com - web site devoted to the iRiver U10.

Communicating Concepts through Comics - http://kevnull.com/2006/03/communicating-concepts-through-comics-2.html

Book: Death by Meeting Another good book on this topic is Open Space Technology, which is a good how-to manual.

Book: Wheels on the bus

How do free software projects make money? Shame people into it or thank them for using it. Put reporting information that shows who is using it. This might be good for shaming large companies into using it. payasexpected

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Inside the Firewall Tagging Session Notes

Does behind the firewall mean enterprise?

Everyone in the room tags stuff

Is there a certain size company that can tag behind the firewall?

Can companies mesh to get a critical mass if they are small?

Background information given by Geoff.

What do we do with the tag data? How does the fact that you’re inside the enterprise change your identity?

In the enterprise, the users are MUCH more exposed.

Would like to make things private so she can tag things and not share.

Private tags in the enterprise are desired.

Tags are just metadata for content and it’s been around for 50 years.

Intranets suck.

CMS security acts as the barrier, but not a good enough barrier.

Problems with internal apps.

How many people think this would be useful? About half the room.

What capability do I get as a user? A workgroup. Sub to a topic. A link, a url and a title. This is really just blogging with a right click.

The example of PTO, Vacation and Holiday. If you are creating the synonym rings for search, you can leverage the tags to discover new terms.

Concept: delicious is an rss aggregator.

Social: need to take this into consideration.

Problem: it’s hard to explain the concept of delicious, just like TiVO. Need to get the alpha geeks to bring their friends along.

What is the business problem?

The organization defines the context of the problem.

Tags work because it’s the way people think. Hierarchies are not the way people think about categorizing stuff.

MD’s only want to see MD stuff. RNs only want to see RN stuff.

Idea of micropayment. Pay someone to tag stuff. The downside is quality.

Outlook discussion: would like to highlight and tag

Ask Buzz about Active Words

There is a problem with lots of resources not being addressable.

Idea: want to build the software through a virtual company.

The underlying problem is re-findabilty.

Delirious is an open source solution. It’s based on Python and MySQL. http://de.lirio.us/rubric

How can we get the benefits of the system?

Stock photo indexing – basically have an ad words problem. Value of keywords. They use a very limited vocabulary. He doesn’t think it

Amazon has a similar problem to the stock photo people. They have a context based search issue.

Issue about context when tagging. Is this really a problem?

Session Sunday at 10:00 RSS and OPML.

Session Sunday at 9:00 AM Penguins and taxonomy.

Session Saturday at 10:00 PM Attention and data.

Amazon knows a lot about me and should be able to figure out the context.

How about if Amazon starts looking at my blog and figures out my context?

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MindCamp2.0 Notes -- Rhapsody Web Services SDK

This is my notes from the Music Mashup session. For the first time, the Rhapsody Web Services SDK is being announced at MindCamp2.0. It looks like there is a nice REST interface and RSS feeds. See their Web Services SDK documentation page for details.

Question for the session - "How do you LEGALLY share music on your web site?"

http://www.rhapsody.com/lesliebraly/songsfromshannon

Hey, it works on the Mac. It is supposed to work on Linux as well. Having a REST interface wins again. You use a simple RegEx to determine the name of the artist that will appear in the URL.

They have their own DRM that is tied to the ActiveX control and they uniquely identify machines. An account is limited to 25 plays per month. If you have downloaded the Real Player recently, you might already have the Rhapsody player. When you max your 25 free plays, you'll be prompted to pay for an account.

To use this on your web page, include a simple.js and include a call in your HTML. You have to look up the database ID number.

Flash does not have DRM, so they can't do a Flash-based player? You can script the ActiveX from Flash though. That works. The lower level calls will be exposed later. They need a Flash example. Phone interface is on the horizon.

There is an XML listing of an album as well. Data.xml following the artist/album.

http://www.rhapsody.com/lesliebraly/songsfromshannon/data.xml

The list of RSS feeds for an artist is available at artist/rss.html

http://www.rhapsody.com/lesliebraly/rss.html

Their goal is to make it dead easy to add music to your site. In the future, they will add tiers of development.

Why are you doing this? to paraphrase: Sign-ups is not the goal. We want to become the music authority on the Internet. If everyone plays through Rhapsody, we'll make money.

If someone signs up for the service through your site, you get US$20.

The most burning question of the day -- What does it look like on MySpace.com? Use an iframe on the page. You can skin the player with your own CSS. You have to leave the Rhapsody logo on there.

What else would you like to see?

Music videos.
Bill back to the site instead of the account holder.

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Seattle MindCamp 2.0 Unconference

Seattle MindCamp2.0 is starting this morning and I feel like a little kid getting ready to go away to camp. I have my sleeping bag, pillow, Nikon D50, Canon video camera, MacBook Pro, notebook, tripod, chargers and cables. There were more sessions proposed over night and it's starting to look very exciting. I think we're going to have some interesting conversations around tagging in the enterprise.

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