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I try to show what it's like to be a MIT Media Lab Student by peppering you with more ideas then you could ever absorb.
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- 2. ThoughtBox “These are for me.”
- 3. Poliri “Your personal government assistant.”
- 4. Distributary “Split off from the river.” Social You Media Firehose
- 5. TierRaid “Explaining the world through ranking.”
- 6. Carstragram “Spice up the map by shouting at things.”
- 7. Ambiartist “Frame information overload as something beautiful.” (Painting by Lyla Duey)
- 8. Media Empire “The only resource is your time.” “Your people are unhappy, you should watch The Avengers.” “You haven’t learned enough about Zimbabwe to make a settlement there.” (Screen Shot from Civilization II)
- 9. (Ink) “Bits of news scattered everywhere.”
- 10. SocOpera “Tell the best story of their lives.” (Screen Shot from The Sims)
- 11. TLD® “Explore the corporate web of Top Level Domains.”
- 12. “A TV timestamp platform”
- 13. Meta Meta Project “Put in content, get back data.”
- 14. “Because watching paint dry can be more entertaining”
- 15. NEWS YOUR OWN ADVENTURE “Changing the way we read the news.”
- 16. WallPaper “The screens are watching you.”
- 17. The GPF “A community network that understands overlap.”
- 20. @slifty (.com)
Editor's Notes
- Hi I’m Dan Schultz an I’m a Knight Mozilla Fellow who just graduated from the center. I want to show you what it’s like to be a student a the Media Lab. These slides contain 18 ideas that range from “brand new” to “master’s thesis”.
- People follow each other on Twitter. On Thoughtbox you follow yourself. You contribute thoughts and observations which are immediately hidden from sight. They are then sent back to you over hours, days, and years.
- Siri and Wolfram Alpha have both shown that powerful experiences can be created by being able to answer specialized questions. I want to see this done for politics and government through Poliri.
- Distributary lets you request,share, and rate twitter lists about every imaginable topic. It breaks apart the social river into smaller, curated, streams.
- Competitive gamers use tiered lists to share the latest best practices. TierRaid does this for everything. What are the Tier 1 newspapers? What makes them different from Tier 2 newspapers? Experts weigh in, and novices learn.
- It’s happened to all of us: we see something while driving that looks interesting or makes us angry but have to pay attention to the road. With Carstragram you can point, shout, and have your car automatically take a picture of it and upload the excitement to Google Street View.
- Ambiant displays take large datasets and summarize them in the corner of your eye. Ambiartist is a toolset to make it easy to create and display digital artwork that reflects what’s going on in cyberspace.
- The first thing you learn in a strategy games is how to manage your resources. To do things you need minerals, gold, etc. In Media Empire you earn different resources by consuming specific types of information in the real world.
- Robert Hemsley recently invented a little device called Droplet. It is an inexpensive copper orb you can place on any touch screen to reveal the information and interfaces it is storing. I want this to be used by newspapers.
- Facebook has trained us to stay up to date through text, but we know how compelling video and animation can be. With SocOpera you pick a cast of characters from your network, wait a week, and watch a live rendition of their digital interactions.
- Big companies are rushing to gobble up top level domains like .lol and .radio, but what will they do with them? TLDR combines web crawlers and data visualization to help us learn about these new, corporatized regions of the internet.
- Grace Wooinventeda technique to embed invisible QR codes in video. QR TV uses this to create information and experiences around specific moments. Clip sharing and extra layers of content suddenly become simple.
- The Meta Meta Project wraps existing tools in a friendly web-based API. Developers won’t need to be domain experts to do things like recognize names in text or identify words in photographs or videos.
- ATTN-SPAN watches C-SPAN because you don’t. It weeds out the signal from the noise to find clips that are relevant to you. It then automatically embeds those clips into related news articles while you’re reading.
- News Your Own Adventure is a brand new project from this weekend’s hackathon. As people read, they get to decide what will happen next. Instead of spending 30 minutes reading five news articles, you can spend that time reading the most interesting parts from hundreds.
- `What happens when every surface has the ability to display information? Wall Paper tracks proximity to only display content where it is wanted. The screens know where you are standing, and you can navigate information by walking around.
- The GPF, or Globally Personalized Forum is a community hub that allows content to appear in more than one place. Users get the benefits of shared identity and privacy without being cut off from the rest of the world.
- NewsJack is built from Mozilla’s Hackasaurus andmakes it easy for anybody to rewrite the news. They just click on what they want to change, type the new content, and hit publish to share their creation online.
- `Truth Goggles is an automated bullshit detector. It highlights fact checked claims online and guides people through the process of critical thinking. The goal of Truth Goggles isn’t to tell us what to think, but is rather to remind us when to think.
- And with that I’m all out of ideas. Please reach out if you want to help out with any of these!