dcinput for Mon 15th Jan, 2007
Mike Curtis links to a video showcasing a 3D Morphable model face animation. Wow.
Great link from George Nimeh to a YouTube of The Truth in Advertising.
David Carr: “24 Hour Newspaper People”.
Doc Searls: “By making a commitment to a closed iPhone, Apple has opened the door to some serious competition. Backlash by the customersphere, the journalsphere and the developersphere to news that the iPhone is closed is a huge gift to the iPhone’s many new competitors. The market points to a clear and wide opening both for product differentiation and for giving customers what they want. Which is an open phone.”
Understanding the web
When I first moved to London about 10 years ago I knew London was big. I had grown up in Brussels, which is a pretty big city but in comparison to London it’s small, and I knew this because people had told me. So when I arrived, though I knew it was big, I had no real understanding of the bigness. Not that it bothered me, it probably didn’t even occur to me.
About five or six years later I was traveling on the Central Line, which is a London Underground line that goes from the very West to the very East of London, and I remember suddenly thinking that I was actually starting to understand how big London was in much the same way that I understood how big Brussels was. I always found it strange that it took this long.
Recently I’m starting to get a similar feeling about the Web. Not about the its bigness, I’m not sure that’s all that important, and not really about how all the pieces work (I’ve learnt these as I went along) but rather I think I’m starting to develop an understanding how the web enables conversations to happen, how those conversations are making a difference and how the effect they have will continue to grow more rapidly.
I know it’s very early days, I’ve hardly been on the web at all compared to many but the point I’m trying to make is that it’s taken me at least two years of reading & writting for the web, listening to podcasts, watching videoblogs, occasionally entering Second Life, attending conferences online and offline (etc…) to get to the point where I’ve realised that I might actually be starting to develop an understanding of this thing we call the web. If you haven’t already, start getting involved online it’s the only true way to start understanding.