(inter) act now !bar camp 09 - antwerp

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20 min. attempt to structure a thought

offlineis where it starts

Hello World!

Chris Anderson

“...along came GUIs and eventually the Macintosh - a graphical interface that made your computer easier to

use, democratising the technology and putting it in the hands of people other than the IT guys (who would

have seen GUIs as wasteful in terms of their demands on the processors).”

1984 1985

Mac OS System 1.0 Windows 1.0x

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/03/operating-system-interface-design-between-1981-2009/

2007

Mac OS X Leopard Windows Vista

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/03/operating-system-interface-design-between-1981-2009/

functionality

each program is working differently

functionality only works the program itself

each program / suite has it’s own standard

portability?

fan of the command line

QuicksilverMac

Launchy Windows

http://docs.blacktree.com/quicksilver/overview http://www.launchy.net

command=

more than search

Moving a file Emailing a FileQueueing an album in iTunes

Quick interaction across programs

direct acces to functionality

and uniformisation

After an adaptation period,

Quicksilver becomes an extension of yourself;

the process fades away leaving only the results.

Lao-tze and S. Mitchell

IT professionals(command line)

democratising (GUI)

functionality (clutter)

command line(only me?)

offline

onlinesimilar pattern

IT professionals(terminal)

democratising (UGC)

functionality & content (clutter)

...

online

IT professionals(terminal)

democratising (UGC)

functionality & content (clutter)

search...

online

functionality

each site works differently, but

functionality could work outside the site too

opensource movement / portability

API’s / RSS

Still: information & service = divided

http://labs.mozilla.com/projects/ubiquity/

my online command-liner

here is another one

interesting for functionality

just talk to the cloud

but what about content?

do we want to keep beingdepended of search only?

can’t we start a conversation

and create interaction with ‘regular’ websites

site by site

websites

brandedentertainment

SEO

infosites

informationAPI-like

built on same structure (cms)

why by command line

intuitive

IM / mobile compatible

fast

visually impaired

...

could we start something?