dcinput daily for Thu 7th Dec, 2006
The ProgrammableWeb is a site that keps track of all the web APIs that are sprouting up all over the place. There’s a blog where they review them as they appear, a mashup section for the best use of them, a mashup matrix, a place to share stuff and a place to learn about how the web is becoming a platform. Really Great Resource.
David Tames: “The qualitative difference in today’s media technology landscape is that innovation is becoming the domain of end-users and is being guided by human needs, creative expression, social activities, and intellectual pursuits; rather than sales goals, quarterly profits, corporate research agendas, and marketing initiatives.”
David Tames’ essay from which the above quote is taken is a good read. He touches on many of the most interestring topics of the day such as walled-gardens, the changing role of the audience, the web’s effect on community and the theory of the long tail all from the perspective of a film maker.
What I’m finding most interesting in all my readings and podcast listening recently is that people of all sorts of different backgrounds and proffesions from all over the world are starting to form ideas and views about the web that are very similar. How interesting the world becomes when people start to have conversations, and to think that only 6 years ago I thought that the web was a glorified sales catalogue.