Here’s a fascinating rap on a new way to do UI’s.
It’s called ZUI.
Always interesting in that…..
Found via Advogato

mOlympics - in my gutter - courtesy of Russ.
More blog gutter web services.

Om Malik is pretty hard on Real about their price reductions.
He sees it as a last ditch effort.
I see it as natural market pressures on Apple. Their model is wrong.
I actually like Napster’s model the best. Real’s Rhapsody doesn’t work if you’re off-line. And what’s wrong with Roxio dumping their tools?
Maybe digital [...]

Suw Charman writes…..

Social networking bingo
It’s a bit silly, but silly is good for the kind of Monday I’ve had today. First one to a full house shouts ‘foaf’.
Actually, I caught myself using foaf as real word in spoken conversation the other day, as in ‘Oh, he’s a foaf of mine’. I’m not sure, but [...]

Dave Winer writes…..
Here’s an example feed from RSSCalendar. Looks pretty good.
and points to this…..

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http://www.rsscalendar.com/rss/view.asp?k=d6128a5c44f82653361a48a60cbc47c2
Date: Aug 20, 2004Start: 12:00 AMEnd: 12:00 AM(Note: John’s local time)RSSCalendar is an exciting new way for individuals and organizations to share their calendars with family, friends, and peers - utilizing the latest in “Really Simple Syndication” (RSS) [...]

Congrats Adriaan!

This looks cool….

VideoLAN is good software. A
free media player that can play pretty much any format, without all
the nonsense, bad UI, and codec difficulties of Quicktime player and
Windows Media Player. Cross platform, too.
[Nelson's WebLog]

Marc Eisenstadt shows off his new baby….
If FlashMeeting 2 isn’t the bee’s knees, then I don’t know what is. The replay capability, shown on the right, is actually described separately on the CNM Memo page, but is part of the same technology family.
Other super-cool features, not yet widely available, include the ability for [...]

Flemming Funch raps it out. My reply below….
“Microcontent” seems to be one of the buzzwords now. So, what is that, really?
Jakob Nielsen, interface guru, used it (first?) in 1998 about stuff like titles, headlines and subject lines. The idea being that first you might see just a clickable title, or a subject line [...]

Lucas Gonze writes….
Playlist Magazine. What strikes me is the continued rise of the playlist meme. The playlist — not the MP3 — is the new unit of delivery after the 78, the LP, and the CD.
Marc expands upon……
Or maybe it’s ‘collections’ - ’cause let’s not forget the visual folks.
Technically it’s a list of unique URLs [...]