After quite a few discussions, some with our new "technosocial strategist", Jerry Michalski (of Release 1.0 fame), we've decided to delay the public Tidepool release until we've smoothed over the Storymill side of things. This release was supposed to be about Tidepool alone, with Storymill merely acting as a public place to put your photos. With a bit more work though, we can bring out the niftier "semantic social network" features of Storymill. We're gonna wait until Storymill is solid, then release both. When? When they're ready. Our next release date will be "today" :) Let us know if you'd...

I talk a lot more than I write these days. Blah blah blah people. Blah blah blah usability. Blah blah blah semantic web. There's probably good parts to my well-worn rap I could write down, but for me writing's always been about discovering something new, at least when it works. So what's new on this quiet night? What new clarity might be found given all that's going on? I could comment on the many great movies I've seen lately. I could write yet again about the project, or other business blather. I could dredge up some tender detail from my...

Tonight we watched Love Actually as inspiration for the sort of interconnected narrative I alluded to yesterday, as was mentioned on JOHO. David's right in saying there's an integrity of storyline that's needed, no matter how many expositional tricks we play, as with Memento. The difference, I think, will be in how we package and stitch together plot, and what we'll call "a work". Tonight's movie used interconnection quite effectively, where each separate plot harmonized with each other like themes building in a symphonic work, unlike some Robert Altman films that seem more like channel-surfing. The degenerate case would be...

Everything needs to work with everything else. Can we at least agree on this? There's nothing worse than using a piece of software only to regret it later because it won't play nice with others. Even with things as simple as contacts and calendars, it's incredible how little we can interoperate. How many of us keep our old contact manager around because it does certain things better than our new one, like printing labels or envelopes? Why can't we use both programs simultaneously without worrying about file formats or import/export? Just how many people start completely over rather than figure...

Today Immuexa agreed to sponsor the First Workshop on FOAF, Social Networking, and the Semantic Web, being held in Galway, Ireland, in early September. We're making "FOAF Bingo", a website game that hopefully will get people uploading photos and annotating using FOAF, much in the same spirit as w3photo.org, only in a somewhat more arbitrary and ridiculous way. I'll write more about it in the next post. Tonight, my mind's on Ireland, having never been there myself. I'm roughly half-Irish, given that my father's mother (King) and my mother's father (Brady) were Irish. My grandma was born and raised there,...