Comments on: Martin Wattenberg’s advice to me http://bestthing.flyingpudding.com/2007/11/16/martin-wattenbergs-advice-to-me/ the best thing i learned today Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:09:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Anita http://bestthing.flyingpudding.com/2007/11/16/martin-wattenbergs-advice-to-me/comment-page-1/#comment-506 Anita Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:55:09 +0000 http://bestthing.flyingpudding.com/2007/11/16/martin-wattenbergs-advice-to-me/#comment-506 Ah yes, another interesting follow-up... I just saw <a href="http://www.jheer.org/" rel="nofollow">Jeff Heer</a> talk at <a href="http://www.csail.mit.edu/index.php" rel="nofollow">CSAIL</a>, and he was plugging <a href="http://flare.prefuse.org/" rel="nofollow">Flare</a> as well. Looks like they have <a href="http://flare.prefuse.org/demo/" rel="nofollow">some good videos of what it can do</a> on the website. Ah yes, another interesting follow-up… I just saw Jeff Heer talk at CSAIL, and he was plugging Flare as well. Looks like they have some good videos of what it can do on the website.

]]> By: Anita http://bestthing.flyingpudding.com/2007/11/16/martin-wattenbergs-advice-to-me/comment-page-1/#comment-504 Anita Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:47:49 +0000 http://bestthing.flyingpudding.com/2007/11/16/martin-wattenbergs-advice-to-me/#comment-504 Right, Brent. I've worded it incorrectly - Martin wasn't suggesting that the communities are instant, but rather than the <em>possibility</em> for an instant community is there, and that this has tremendous value. (I've updated the post accordingly.) Right, Brent. I’ve worded it incorrectly – Martin wasn’t suggesting that the communities are instant, but rather than the possibility for an instant community is there, and that this has tremendous value. (I’ve updated the post accordingly.)

]]> By: brent http://bestthing.flyingpudding.com/2007/11/16/martin-wattenbergs-advice-to-me/comment-page-1/#comment-503 brent Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:24:07 +0000 http://bestthing.flyingpudding.com/2007/11/16/martin-wattenbergs-advice-to-me/#comment-503 Seems like good advice. You may want to check out Flex. It's also from macromedia/adobe, but a real open source license and event driven, rather than timeline driven like Flash. And have you seen Flare? http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/ http://flare.prefuse.org/ I'd disagree on one statement. Web doesn't make for an instant community. You have to work at it, and you have to build it right. There are a lot of lonely projects on the web, and as more and more social systems come online, the pool of potential participants is stretched thinner. Seems like good advice. You may want to check out Flex. It’s also from macromedia/adobe, but a real open source license and event driven, rather than timeline driven like Flash. And have you seen Flare?

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/
http://flare.prefuse.org/

I’d disagree on one statement. Web doesn’t make for an instant community. You have to work at it, and you have to build it right. There are a lot of lonely projects on the web, and as more and more social systems come online, the pool of potential participants is stretched thinner.

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