Dreamscape introduction for barcampman3

mydreamscape.org

You can share your dreams with anyone
You can learn and understand more about your and other peoples dreams
You can track yours and other peoples dreams
myDreamscape.org is the flickr of dreams

But why?

Everyone has dreams

You may not remember them always
Writing them down helps you remember them
Keeping a dream diary helps you improve your dream ability
Everyone has dreams

People share aspects of dreams

Because its embarrassing
Because it might offend that person
Because its too weird to explain
Because its not always that interesting
Because they can't remember it
But not the whole thing

We all enjoy a good tale, idea, dream
Social capital or good whuffie
Some things are too good not to share
It might involve the other person or a place
But there are advantages to sharing

Were social animals
Your friends and family know you better that you know yourself
Strangers can shed new light on your dreams
The ability to track trends/memes such as if someone else is having the exact dream as you
Advantages of sharing

Together we will generate a massive amount of lovely rich data to learn from
We will be able to finally categorise dreams
We will get a better understanding of what dreams are and where they come from together
There has never been a massive social experiment like this for the study of dreams
Trendspotting

So how will it work?

So how will it work?
The editor
The levels
The viewer
The trend analyser
The blog

The editor
The editor will be like SubEtherEdit or Etherpad. You can specify which bits people can see
You can write your dream then add metadata via tags, links and other metadata
Going to use the W3C's annotation spec

The levels
This is where you specify groups or individual permissions for what people can see
As default everything in black is public with everything in red being private to you
You can set up to 8 different levels in between, easy to administrate
We will only harvest the metadata if the dream is set to all private

The viewer
The aim is to be as open as flickr, so as default every dream will be public (levels dependant)
If the person logins in, they maybe able to view a lot more that the public

The trend analyser
Like wefeelfine.org you can get a 1000 meters view of all the public data
There will be a live dream dictionary which is updated with everyone's contributions
You will be able to dive into the trends using the gapminder.org analyser

The trend analyser
Search and compare...
Tags within the dream, geolocation of dream, places, mood, objects, people, vividness...
Sex of the dreamer, age of the dreamer, location of dreamer, day of the dream...

The blog
Like oktrends we will use the blog to publicise the best parts of data collected in the trendier
We will contribute as much data freely for people to use and learn from
We will always guard and protect private user data

Into the business model
Sell access to the live dream dictionary (PRO users), it will change based on what people say about there dreams
There may also be a limit on how many dreams we hold unless your a pro user which means its endless
Only Pro users can tag/annotate other people dreams

If your not a pro user, you will get adverts next to the dream your reading.
We can also add advertising to the aggregated and tagged pages

Different resolutions on the dream data
Payment means you can get much richer data ( obviously depending on the users preferences and privicy )
It would be possible to work out how many UK citizens are dreaming about a certain delegate just before an election. Not only that but if those dreams or positive or negative!

People dream about a certain location or a certain product. If you own that location or product you may want to own the aggregator page and make it more yours
http://www.mydreamscape.org/items/iphone4/ - links to a page about the iphone4 in dreams and have images and links to the item its self

http://www.mydreamscape.org/location/europe/manchester/northernquarter
Would obviously link to the Northern quarter in Manchester with information taken from Wikipedia.org, google maps and other open sources
You may be interested in advertising on such a page?

Into the dream...

Into the dream...
“ Every night Paul has the same frightening dream. He's standing at the edge of a vast empty field, trying to move towards a large, glowing sphere. A small boy is in terrible trouble... and paul must save him. Paul's convinced he's losing his mind ”

Into the dream...
“ ...until he learns that his classmate Francine is having the same harrowing dream! The two of them are determined to solve the mystery and save the little boy – before there nightmare becomes terrifying reality ”
Into the dream – by William Sleator

Deep into the dream

Deep into the dream
Are dreams just your mind working out the previous days or is there something more to them?
Can you have an original thought, or is everything connected in some way?
What makes a nightmare so scary?
We will discover through the data collected

Deep into the dream
Are people having a similar dream to you?
Who else is having the same dream and why?
What/who influences your dreams?
Can you influence your future dreams?
Can you share a dream?
How much control can you have over a dream?

Thank you, any questions? Ian Forrester | Cubicgarden.com | mydreamscape.org Presentation : CC BY-NC-SA

Dreamscape introduction for barcampman3

by Ian Forrester on Sep 07, 2010

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