{"id":921,"date":"2007-06-20T22:55:55","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T21:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/electronicmuseum.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/20\/hack-dayer-and-gbs\/"},"modified":"2020-11-18T15:05:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T15:05:47","slug":"hack-dayer-and-gbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/2007\/06\/20\/hack-dayer-and-gbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Hack day…er, and GBS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’m lurking in a particularly grim hotel in Leicester right now, just getting together some thoughts for Mashed Museum<\/a> tomorrow. Unpleasantness aside, I have wifi (ouch, expensive), running water, and electric light. And<\/strong> the bar is still open so I may head down for a “lonely bloke in hotel” pint in a moment..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\nOne thing which is really cheering me up is the incredible, remarkable and altogether life-changing thing which is Google Browse Sync<\/a>. I’ve been a user for a while, but it’s only when you’re miles (sniff) from home in a prison-like hotel room that you realise how much time you normally spend farting around on your laptop for passwords, bookmarks, search history and all of that other browsing stuff. YES I know that Google are probably compiling some kind of dossier of my movements, YES I know that I should care about privacy or whatever, but this tiny Firefox app makes such an enormous difference to my life that I simply don’t care. Install it. Please.
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Back to the point. The other thing which I’m marvelling at – and will continue to marvel at tomorrow, all day, is the amazing thing which has happened to the web with the introduction of open data and API’s. I’ve just written a couple of demonstrators which do very simple mashy stuff with Flickr and Google and I LOVE IT. It’s just fantastic being able to get at these huge resouces of content and do groovy, weird, unthoughtof things. Yahoo’s Hack Day<\/a> was earlier in the week – it looks incredibly inspiring – Frankie<\/a> went and I’m looking forward to talking to him and seeing how we can learn from what they did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s my bedtime prayer – that museums continue to take the journey that some have started – by not only consuming these data sources but also exposing their own data to others, and playing<\/strong>. The whole heart of the mashup thing is a sense of playfulness, of not quite knowing where it’s going, of just doing it because it might go somewhere interesting…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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