| The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Version) - 273 sec "Web 2.0" in just under 5 minutes.
http://mediatedcultures.net
This is a slightly revised and cleaned up version of the video that was featured on YouTube in February 2007.
I considered releasing it as an "eternal beta" in true Web 2.0 style, but decided to let it stand as is and start working on future projects. Many of my future videos will address the last 30 seconds of this video (the "rethink ..." part).
Thank you all for the helpful comments on the earlier draft. It has been a great experience to connect with so many people interested in
similar issues.
Once again, there are higher quality versions available for download:
Windows Media File (55 MB):
http://www.mediafire.com/?2wnmpy2ibz1
Quicktime File (96 MB):
http://www.mediafire.com/?axhbjnmw4yn
Mojiti Version (for comments, translations, etc.):
http://mojiti.com/kan/2743/5984
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. So you are welcome to download it, share it, even change it, just as long as you give me some credit and you don't sell it or use it to sell anything. I received many more positive comments than negative about the song choice (great work Deus!), but if you are one of those who does not like the song just download the video and change the audio track to your liking.
The video was created by me (Michael Wesch), working alone from my house in St. George, Kansas. I used CamStudio for the screen captures and Sony Vegas for the panning/cropping/zooming animations. Someday I might make a video tutorial for those who are interested. Tags: ksudigg web2.0 ksu anthropology ethnography  | | The Web That Wasn't - 3574 sec Google Tech Talks
October, 23 2007
ABSTRACT
For most of us who work on the Internet, the Web is all we have ever really known. It's almost impossible to imagine a world without browsers, URLs and HTTP. But in the years leading up to Tim Berners-Lee's world-changing invention, a few visionary information scientists were exploring alternative systems that often bore little resemblance to the Web as we know it today. In this presentation, author and information architect Alex Wright will explore the heritage of these almost-forgotten systems in search of promising ideas left by the historical wayside.
The presentation will focus on the pioneering work of Paul Otlet, Vannevar Bush, and Doug Engelbart, forebears of the 1960s and 1970s like Ted Nelson, Andries van Dam, and the Xerox PARC team, and more recent forays like Brown's Intermedia system. We'll trace the heritage of these systems and the solutions they suggest to present day Web quandaries, in hopes of finding clues to the future in the recent technological past.
Speaker: Alex Wright
Alex Wright is an information architect at the New York Times and the author of Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages. Previously, Alex has led projects for The Long Now Foundation, California Digital Library, Harvard University, IBM, Microsoft, Rollyo and Sun Microsystems, among others. He maintains a personal Web site at http://www.alexwright.org/ Tags:google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education | | | | | | | | High Performance Web Sites and YSlow - 3633 sec Google Tech Talks
November, 13 2007
ABSTRACT
Yahoo!'s Exceptional Performance Team has identified 14 best practices for making web pages faster. These best practices have proven to reduce response times of Yahoo! properties by 25-50%. They focus on the front-end, for example, why it's bad to use "@import" for including stylesheets and why ETags disable browser caching. In this talk I'll go in-depth on these best practices and the research behind them. I'll also demonstrate YSlow and do some live performance analysis of popular web sites.
Relevant links:
Exceptional Performance: http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/
YSlow: http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/
Speaker: Steve Souders
Steve Souders holds down the job of Chief Performance Yahoo! at Yahoo! He's been at Yahoo! since 2000, working on many of the platforms and products within the company He ran the development team for My Yahoo! before reaching his current position.
As Chief Performance Yahoo!, he has developed a set of best practices for making web sites faster. He builds tools for performance analysis and evangelizes these best practices and tools across Yahoo!'s product teams. Tags: google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education | | Send Emails with a Web Form: PHP Scripting - 1586 sec Check this video out at Hi-Res here: http://www.tutvid.com/tutorials/dreamweaver/tutorials/phpFormHandler.php
Files are Located here: http://www.tutvid.com/resources/projectFiles/
In the following tutorial we will start with a few html files and we will build an Email Handling PHP script that sends info from your web form to your email! It is pretty easy PHP so enjoy learning and Have fun! I am using Dreamweaver CS3, but you can use pretty much any version of Dreamweaver, just follow closely and try not to make mistakes. Please enjoy and don't forget to check out the site
http://www.tutvid.com Tags:Adobe Dreamweaver PHP Script Scripting Tutorial Training Web Page Webpage Site Website Form Make Work Handler Email Sen | | Enhancing Web 2.0 Accessibility Via AxsJAX: A Tutorial at Google - Charles L.... - 4337 sec Google Tech Talks
July 15, 2008
ABSTRACT
Google is the Web's premier creator of user-friendly Web 2.0 applications, and we have long viewed it as part of our mission to do for users in the long tail (AKA users with special needs) what we've achieved for the mainstream user see this Google I/O talk entitled Design Patterns for Enhanced Accessibility for background. Accessibility 2.0 is now a hot topic on the Web and we would like to move from a world where AJAX applications were a straight No-No with respect to blind users to a world where these same technologies are used to enhance their usability for everyone.
Google-AxsJAX is an Open Source framework for injecting usability enhancements into Web 2.0 applications. In this talk, Charles Chen and T. V. Raman will give a hands-on tutorial on using AxsJAX. The tutorial will cover the following:
A brief introduction to the additional opcodes introduced by W3C ARIA to the assembly language of the Web (AKA HTML+JavaScript).
AxsJAX library abstractions built on the above that help Web developers generate relevant feedback via the user's adaptive technology of choice.
Steps in creating fluent eyes-free interaction to Web applications, including enabling rapid access to parts of a complex Web page.
The tutorial will provide a step-by-step walk through in defining AxsJAX enhancements to a Web page including:
An overview of the developer tools we use.
Discovering pain-points in Web interaction and designing improvements iteratively.
And time permitting, we might even demonstrate how Raman now makes up for all the time he save thanks to an efficient eyes-free auditory user interface by playing JawBreaker and reading XKCD via their AxsJAXed versions.
Note that writing AxsJAX enhancements to Web applications can help you win cool swag and bragging rights! The goal of this hands-on tutorial is to help you get there faster!
Speaker: T. V. Raman
T. V. Raman works on auditory interfaces and Web applications at Google.
Speaker: Charles L. Chen
Charles L. Chen is the author of Fire Vox -- http://www.clcworld.net -- an Open Source extension to Firefox that turns Firefox into a talking Web browser. Tags: google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education | | | | |
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