Mild hangover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Couldn’t get to the demos – woke late and then had some emails and other stuff to do. But got down in time to see Silvia talking about bookmarking. Very interesting stuff – lots of people trying various things, and obviously of great interest to me with my mobile bookmarking site stufflinker<\/a>. She spent a bit of time talking about My Art Space<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The problem I’ve always had with this is that it requires phones running special software. In fact right now it needs specific phones as well (I think?). In a museum context, I just don’t see how this could ever work – the thing we have fears about are often less<\/strong> about the tech and more about the soft stuff: who is going to man the tills? What if the phones go wrong? Who is going to charge them up? Do we need to take a deposit?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Of course, the alternatives are limiting:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stufflinker does #3 – at the end of the day you are limited to 160 chrs but I still think you can build at least semi-interesting experiences once you link this to the web…And the benefit is that users are 110% familiar with the whole SMS thing AND everyone’s phone can do it. At least in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyway. I digress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Silvia’s conclusions (people don’t tend to use bookmarking) seemed to be more about usability and visibility – they don’t understand the word “bookmarking”, or didn’t notice the label on-gallery saying they could save stuff, or simply – and this is intersting – didn’t understand that things saved on- or in-gallery could also be viewed at home. “Why would I want to bookmark something on this<\/strong> computer” was her way of putting this. I’d never thought of that, but I do this stuff a fair bit so linking virtual to real seems obvious to me. I can understand why it wouldn’t to others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I dipped in and out of various sessions for the rest of the afternoon before getting talking to a bunch of people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then time for the closing reception at the de Young museum<\/a>. Amazing view from the tower – got up there in time to see the light going. They also have an awesome arial shot of SF – unbelievable order<\/strong> in everything – sooo neat and tidy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Had a few, got the coach back, food, and then spent a couple of hours talking to Dan Zambonini from the excellent Box UK<\/a> – they’ve had some great recognition this week for the very groovy Click Density<\/a>. Dan and I have got a couple of plans on the burner which I’ll talk about when they’re a little bit better formed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mild hangover. Couldn’t get to the demos – woke late and then had some emails and other stuff to do. But got down in time to see Silvia talking about bookmarking. Very interesting stuff – lots of people trying various things, and obviously of great interest to me with my mobile bookmarking site stufflinker. She … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}