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"May I share your song...With my current online facilitation workshop folks= ?" Yes of course. It might be nice if you pointed them to the blogged version http://distributedresearch.net/blog/?p=3D63 rather than the unidentified mp3 , although I don't refer to the workshop in that post. It's up to you
mashing a sound file into AudioAcrobat Hmm, let me think... You could always replay the mp3 through a speaker into a telephone dialling your audioacrobat number but I understand if you don't want to do that. The sound quality would deterioate, but not too badly. The implications of Mashups It strikes me that looking at this new development of mashups from the point of view of trying to find out how you might choose one of them to benefit a particular community, or to facilitate our own learning, could be slightly missing the point. It's not as if there is an option to decide that mashups probably aren't of interest to you, so you can mostly ignore them and they will go away. Because this thing is already happening and it's changing the way the people we all deal with are going to use their computers. Fundamentally, I think it represents a final and irreversible shift away from the architecture of desktop/laptop computers and onto the internet itself. By providing open APIs, the big database owners - Google, Yahoo, Amazon etc have set up an ecosystem whereby the next generation of applications development centres around them rather than around Microsoft, Apple or Linux. How will this shift in the big picture affect us? That's a topic worth exploring, in my opinion and I'd like to venture a few suggestions to get started. 1) Some new members will approach the existing communities having already had experience with rich, dynamic and compelling interfaces. If they are expected to fit in with an existing setup which looks dull and obsolete to them, they might just laugh out loud and then build their own cop2.0 instead. 2) The commoditisation of non-proprietary entry level computers will drive down the cost so that much of the rest of the world will be able to be connected. 3) It will matter even less which computer you happen to be sitting at today. Digital identity and synchronisation of workflows will be rolled out to everyone so that they bring all their own stuff with them when they join in. 4) Community links and ties will be more explicit, perhaps even to the extent that automated systems will be able to depict the existence of potential CoPs just waiting to be crystallised out. 5) Overall, perhaps there will be a tendency for CoPs2.0 to be more easily created and then dissipated again, with less clear boundaries and more rapidly shifting internal and external dynamics. If none of this makes any sense at all then try reading "Mashup ecosystem poised to explode" at zdnet http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=2484 "With mashups, much the same way blogging systems put Web publishing into the hands of millions of ordinary non-technical people, the barrier to developing applications and turning creativity into innovation is so low that there's a vacuum into which an entire new class of developers will be sucked. It's already happening. " zero http://www.ehow.com/how_18162_call-united-states.html 2. Dial 00, the international access code for Portugal. 3. Dial the country code for the United States, which is 1. Attached mp3 I have to confess I just don't get the point of the whole telephone thing but I should be able to attach my bit as an mp3 file if that's any use. So I'm not exactly following instructions here and that's Nancy's fault As a person from Wales, I don't need much encouragment to burst into song. 1.1 Mb 53 seconds Attachment: friends.mp3 Flickr mashups Some examples of interesting ways that clever people are making use of the open data available from Flickr. Here's one which explores sets of photographs the same colour http://www.krazydad.com/colrpickr/ Here's one which displays social networks through analysing Flickr contacts. http://www.marumushi.com/apps/flickrgraph/ Through retrieving that one, I came across a whole list of mashups at http://www.programmableweb.com/popular At present, most of these are just for fun, but they demonstrate a mind boggling potential. Anyway, what's wrong with fun. |
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