April 24, 2003
etcon:2003:day3:rich internet apps

health warning - the network was broken so this entry is just a dump of different bits in an effort to at least get it saved.

kevin from macromedia

user interface on the web for applications is very poor.
they are thinking about how to improve the application experience and

mmm...a big thing about flash future. sort of interesting - watergate hotel site check it out for rich client online.

alan kay
the last 20 years have faiolled to deliver on the grand dream conveived in 1963 which was that human brains and computinjg machines will be coupled together very tightly
uses the sketchpad UI from 1963 as an example of some cool software and was the first ovject oriented software that alan
pdf file from mit library - ivan apologises cos it wasn't better

original video game - mit 1963 - pdp1
called spacewar

lisp - mccarthygreg needs to pay attention to alan.
spatial mapping with event information - engel

the central theme here is that we neglect our history - that much of the things we want to do have already been done.
we have not made the progress that alan envisaged 40 years ago.


enduser computing - the simplest interface in the world to get computing scripts developed...used how to drive a car program as exaample

what is scalable group collaboration?

alice in wonderland...this is very cool shared space - installing squeak as i type

Posted by paula at April 24, 2003 06:01 PM