I work right now quite a lot with openID and therefore my wishlist of services which should support an openID login- and I mean login, not provider-only - is growing every day. I wish the following services would have one:
Twitter
FriendFeed
Facebook
LinkedIn
Xing
Ning
MobileMe
Slideshare
Upcoming
Brightkite
Amazon
Google
Youtube
Flickr
Vimeo
… and all the forums I use from time to time.
… and all site which let me leave a comment
… and all the sites asking to fill out any form
Then my daily online life would be much easier.
Right now I use my openID already for the following services:
noserub
ma.gnolia
PBwiki
dopplr
mixxt
claimID
wordpress
myvidoop
backpack.it
highrise
So I would say, that there is still a lot of room for improvements. And dear website providers - look at who all is now (or in the near future) an openID provider … the chicken-egg situation is more or less over, with all those giants becoming openID providers right now.
It’s time to get started with finally implementing openID logins and with teaching the users, how they can use it and what the benefit is :D
[GERMAN] Short notice for english speaking visitors:
This podcast and blog post is in German. In this episode I talk again about collaboration in virtual worlds and share my recent progress and thoughts with you.
In dieser Episode geht es wieder um die Zusammenarbeit in virtuellen Welten. Nachdem ich bereits in Podcast #24 über mein Vorhaben laut nachgedacht habe, geht es heute darum ein kurzes Update zu geben, was seit dem passiert ist.
Unter anderem ist zum Beispiel dieser Blogartikel entstanden, auf den der heutige Podcast auch ein wenig aufbaut.
[GERMAN] Short notice for english speaking visitors:
This podcast and blog post is in German. In this episode I talk with Klaas from the German agency Pixelpark about Mobile-Tagging. He wrote a whitepaper about it last year and knows quite a lot about it.
In dieser Episode rede ich mit meinem alten Pixelpark Kollegen Klaas - Direktor Beratung & Konzeption in Berlin - über das Thema Mobile Tagging, über welches er in 2007 ein Whitepaper veröffentlicht hat.
Ich denke das Thema ist absolut spannend - berührt auch den Bereich “Augmented Reality” in einem gewissen Maße- und könnte in naher Zukunft in Deutschland mal ganz groß werden. In Japan (siehe Foto) ist es das bereits und bekleidet da schon viele unterschiedliche reale Gegenstände.
Wenn ihr wissen wollt worum es geht und was es für Anwendungsbeispiele gibt: einfach einschalten - Klaas erklärt es noch mal in aller Ruhe und wir reden am Rande auch über das iPhone, Qype, Plazes, Mobile Social Networks und andere Dinge, die irgendwie damit zu tun haben.
Und hier gibt es übrigens ein spannendes Blog zu dem Thema, welches Klaas am Ende empfohlen hat!
In my podcast I recently talked about my purpose to starting using virtual worlds together with my customers as a platform for collaboration to reduce the need of real-life meetings. In this podcast I elaborated which meetings I usually do with my clients, which of them I could do in a virtual world and which requirements those meetings would have.
One of these meetings are brainstormings. The last week I started to do some experiments with Qwaq and had a first client, who was determined to do a brainstorming within Qwaq about how (or even if) we could use virtual worlds for those kind of meetings and we came up with the conclusion, that it could really have some great advantages compared to a real-life meetings - even apart from avoiding traveling! [Read more →]
[GERMAN] Short notice for english speaking visitors:
This podcast and blog post is in German. In this episode I talk about my musings regarding a definition for the metaverse. I talk about virtual worlds, mirror world, augmented reality, lifelogging and more related topics.
In dieser Episode geht es um meine Gedanken zu der Frage, was eigentlich genau das Metaversum ist, oder sein wird. Es gibt dort natürlich unterschiedlichste Definitionen und ich würde vermuten, dass meine eher zu denen gehört, die sehr umfassend und weit dehnbar ist.
Ich rede daher über virtuelle Welten, Mirror Worlds, Augmented Reality, Lifelogging und andere Themen, welche man alle unter dem Begriff zusammenfassen könnte.
The Electric Sheep company announced yesterday a new in-house product called WebFlock, which sounds like a nice framework to create web based virtual environments. ESC describes their product as following:
WebFlock is an application for private-labeled, Web-based virtual experiences. It provides a visually immersive environment for social interaction, media consumption and game play.
At its core, the tool lets the Sheep create entirely white-label, Flash-based, download-free (past the Flash plug-in) environments for socializing, casual games, and media consumption
And I totally agree with Verbecks (CEO of ESC) in his opinion, that a lot of clients already see the benefit of avatar based, virtual environments, but that ”There just was not a platform where you could easily create that and get a large adoption very quickly from the user base.”
Of course there are a lot of platforms already, who are operating in the web-based area. But all of them had so far at least one of two disadvantages:
They see themselves as a closed community, which wants to get as much users a possible, without thinking of white-labeling their product.
They still rely on a plugin technology, which means a software download (even if it’s very small) and therefore means a barrier, which will cost - everybody who will use their technology - users.
Well - of course a lot of people (especially Second Life enthusiasts) will now stand up and say, that WebFlock is pretty limited and not comparable to other solutions on the market.
And of course: it’s not - but as I have pointed out already in this post, for a lot of meaningful usage scenarios for corporations you don’t need a massive immersive, flexible, “all-rounder” virtual world like Second Life.
Quite a lot of benefits from the perspective of a corporation and also from the perspective of a casual user, are already coverable with technologies and platforms, which are much less complex in many different ways. As it looks like for me, ESC decided to use the technology which will reach the greatest audience - Flash - and implemented as many aspects of a social virtual avatar based environment as possible.
So as you might notice I am pretty enthusiastic and optimistic about the announcement of WebFlock, because from all what I have experienced in the last two years, thats exactly the piece which was missing, to get again a lot of different and interesting projects running in the realm of virtual worlds.
Ich war diese Woche zu Gast bei Kanal14 und habe mit Sebastian Keil über meinen Blog Artikel The Future of Corporate Websites gesprochen. Wir haben versucht das Thema in 30 Minuten runterzubrechen und auf den Punkt zu bringen und ich hoffe, dass wir das so einiger Maßen hinbekommen haben
Der Artikel ist zugegebener Maßen zu lang, um ihn verbal in 30 Minuten wiederzugeben. Aber ich denke wir konnten einige Aspekte rüberbringen und wir wären natürlich sehr an Feedback zum Thema interessiert
[GERMAN] Short notice for english speaking visitors:
This podcast and blog post is in German. In this episode I talk about my plans to start collaborating with my clients in virtual worlds. Collaboration in virtual worlds is a big topic - there are already quite a few solutions on the market and I guess it’s now a good time to start playing around with the possibilities.
In this episode I talk about why I want to use those platforms, what kind of meetings I want to do and what therefore the requirements are for those.
Der heutige Tag stand für mich unter dem Motto “Zusammenarbeit in virtuellen Welten”. Grund dafür ist, dass ich mir selbst gerade überlege welche Platform ich ernsthaft in der Zusammenarbeit mit meinen Kunden nutzen könnte und daher angefangen habe mir diverse Lösungen anzuschauen.
In dieser Episode geht es aber erstmal nur um die Gedanken, die ich mir dazu im Vorfeld mache. Sprich: Warum möchte ich virtuelle Welten für Meetings nutzen, welche Arten von Meetings möchte ich abbilden, was haben diese Meetings für Anforderungen und was gibt es auf den ersten Blick für Lösungen, die in diese Richtung gehen.
Project Wonderland und auch Qwaq dürften dabei ganz klar in der engeren Auswahl liegen. Ein nettes Video zu Project Wonderland gibt es hier und zwei ausführliche Screencasts auf Deutsch zu Qwaq gibt es drüben beim Bernd.
Today I started to play around with Project Wonderland (weblog) because it’s in my eyes one of the most promising projects in the realm of future intraverses. It’s a open source project from Sun, which has been build upon different components (like the Project Darkstar) which already existed before and it has all in all a very nice system architecture. [Read more →]
[GERMAN] Short notice for english speaking visitors:
This podcast and blog post is in German. In this episode I talk about my idea to create an openID based persona creator. It’s again about the issue, that publishers try to collect data from us, but that I see the bigger potential in simply asking us and we provide them with different personas.
I guess something like that could be realized with open ID and in this context I also talk about all kind of Targeting, AttentionTrust.org, Microformats and a lot of other buildings blocks.
Diesmal geht es um relativ lose Gedanken von mir zum Thema “Personas und openID” - wie man oben sieht, habe ich da vor einiger Zeit mal kurz drüber getwittert und dann aber nicht mehr weiter drüber nachgedacht.
Dies wird nun nachgeholt. Es geht wie immer darum, dass ich behaupte, dass in Zukunft Unternehmen nicht mehr Daten von uns sammeln werden, sondern darauf angewiesen sein werden, diese von uns auf einer freiwilligen und auf Vertrauen basierten Basis zu bekommen.
Dafür werden wir verschiedene Personas (Masken) im Netz nutzen und je nach Vertrauen ein gewissen Level an Daten freiwillig zeitbegrenzt zur Verfügung stellen. In dem Zusammenhang komme ich auch wieder auf Dinge wie Targeting, AttentionTrust.org, Microformats und andere Kollegen zu sprechen.
- is growing every day. I wish the following services would have one:
Looking forward to learn more about WebFlock!
