Protos

Found this post via. delicious and its simply poetry for geeks:

proposed new tag: IMG
Marc Andreessen (marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
Thu, 25 Feb 93 21:09:02 -0800

I’d like to propose a new, optional HTML tag:

IMG

Required argument is SRC=”url”.

This names a bitmap or pixmap file for the browser to attempt to pull over the network and interpret as an image, to be embedded in the text at the point of the tag’s occurrence.

An example is:

(IMG SRC=”file://foobar.com/foo/bar/blargh.xbm”\)

(There is no closing tag; this is just a standalone tag.)

This tag can be embedded in an anchor like anything else; when that happens, it becomes an icon that’s sensitive to activation just like a regular text anchor.

Browsers should be afforded flexibility as to which image formats they support. Xbm and Xpm are good ones to support, for example. If a browser cannot interpret a given format, it can do whatever it wants
instead (X Mosaic will pop up a default bitmap as a placeholder).

This is required functionality for X Mosaic; we have this working, and we’ll at least be using it internally. I’m certainly open to suggestions as to how this should be handled within HTML; if you have
a better idea than what I’m presenting now, please let me know. I know this is hazy wrt image format, but I don’t see an alternative than to just say “let the browser do what it can” and wait for the
perfect solution to come along (MIME, someday, maybe).

Let me know what you think………

Cheers,
Marc

–
Marc Andreessen
Software Development Group
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu

via: http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0182.html

Well Marc, I think they agree :-)

Day one at persuasive technology
The Persuasive Technology 2008 conference is really promising and there have been some really high quality speakers. There is a really nice atmosphere =)

The first keynote by Kristina Hook was really interesting. Basically she and her team are taking affective computing to another level. I would almost say, that she de facto is investigating “pathos” appeals in technology (mobile, tablet and gamings systems). I really liked her presentation.

Standford has made a super cool presentation on Facebook and is thus taking the lead in the sense of new learnings. B.J. Fogg and Daisuke Lizawa had a great paper on differences in types of interaction in Japanese social networks versus Facebook/western social spaces.

Brian Cugelman made a nice presentation on website credibility:

I had my own session on the persuasive design of Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) and I had both positive and negative feedback.

Also really interesting at the persuasive is the short paper sessions. This year short papers are presented for 10 minutes in clusters of three and then a short discussion. This is a great format, since you get a lot of short pitches

For instance Evan Rosenfeld had a good session entitled: “How to build persuasive web applications: Three fundamental feedback loops”

Again we got some some nice practical design patterns from Stanford. It seems that they have undertaken the task to actually map out all persuasive interaction design patterns that they can find. This will be very useful in taking Persuasive Technology Design to the next level – enabling us to prescribe design.

Below professor B.J. Fogg and Julie Leth:

Day 1 will close with a closed with a panel where I will be participating.

Overall a lot of interesting viewpoints emerged on day 1 and it was evident that there is still plenty of issues to be discussed in regards to the future of rhetoric and persuasion.

More on this tomorrow – where I will use a better compression for the pictures ;-)

A-one and a-two and a-chicka booma chick!

Wonderful

Ohh and this:

=)

This is a must read and truly a scholastic example of Internet culture. robotmantheblog.com/

Yes, its about the fabric of the internet.

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