Presentation (links below)

iPad will change computers forever for normal people. Simple computers where web access is even more important. So web apps are the future.

The slides of the companies was about defining their core business and their interest in the web. Adobe: selling design software, Google: collecting data for relevant adds (wants everybody with webaccess to google products), Apple: selling hardware (best software experience), Microsoft: Selling windows, thats why IE9 will not be available for XP and why they now want HTML5 to succeed.

Flash

Adobe isn’t in the Flash business

Seriously.

It isn’t in the Photoshop business, or the Acrobat business, or the [take-your-pick product name] business, either.

It’s in the helping people communicate business.

• Adobe is not in the flash business – On an adobe weblog

HTML5

All examples are best seen in Safari 4+ or a recent Google Chrome release. Want to know how it works.

Use Web inspector in webkit to inspect the elements and to see their CSS. Read more about incredible webkit inspector here and here.

What can I use now:

A simple matrix of what HTML5 features are implemented by which browser.

CSS fonts:

• Font-face generator for all browsers incl free fonts to use.
• Font face more deeply explained
• More Fonts for font-face css.

HTML5 video:

• Cool video player – Also uses webfonts.
• It is all about h264 which flash and html 5 video both support. Vimeo and youtube both have HTML5 video players in beta which are almost identical to flash version. Test youtube HTML5
• Internet Explorer 9 is going to support HTML5 H264 video. Firefox does support the tag but nog H264. But does support the inferior Ogg Vorbis format.

Canvas:

• Cool interactive music visualisation – Also uses HTML5 audio tag for native browser audio.
• Drawing in the browser – almost like photoshop and can even save images thanks to base64.

CSS animations/transitions/transforms

• Snow stack – Navigating through images in 2.5d. Space for enlarging.
• CSS animation – Webkit introduction, also in near future Firefox. Be sure to click through to demos.
• CSS transitions – Webkit and will also be included in firefox. All based on Apple Core Animation.
• CSS 3D transforms – See examples. This was the one I showed in the talk.
• SVG vector animation – You can create vectors in any vector program.

Local Storage:

• Webkit example – Be sure to check web inspector to check results in db viewer.
• Webkit Introduction post
• More client side storage. Localstorage also works in IE8+.

IE9:

• HTML5, hardware accelerated drawing & SVG
• Script speed compared to other browsers – I used the graph from here.

Webgl: (only works in experimental browser versions of firefox & webkit)

• Quake 2 with GWT & webgl in browser
• Webkit webgl introduction – The latest webkit build has changed too much to show all the demos correctly.
• Characters be sure to try out multiple & animated characters with right number select.
• Chrome windows directX translation for webGL coming.

Websockets:

• Websockets in Chrome

Google Web toolkit: write cool fast web apps in Java. Compiles to super optimized javascript. Google Wave is a GWT product and even Quake 2 can be built in it. (See webgl)

• Overview
• 2.0 new features with video
• Building UI like Adobe Flex in XML
• App engine for superscalable cheap NOSQL databases

Our Care product: (screenshots are from an older version than I demoed)

• Lable EZLP

Photo by Raymond van Dongelen

3 slideshows of 20 slides of 3 recent presentations. Translated into English.

The End of hierarchy

Pecha Kucha for an event by Nieuwe Garde Leeuwarden

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CMD in 2013

Pecha Kucha for internal idea sharing about the future of CMD

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CMD freshman introduction

20 slides to create more passion and insight into freshman CMD students

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Apple is full of innovation and their innovation inspires people, me included, to look into the future of hardware and software. They have a unique way to look at what the people want and are famous for their simplicity in look and feel. The innovations mentioned could not only about Apple but could also be implemented by other brands. But Apple seems the most interesting because they seem to have the most integrated platform. What will the future bring?

Mediacenter

Source: Nano 3G review appleinsider

At the beginning this year Apple launched the Apple TV. They later described it as a hobby project. But their goals with it are serious. With the macs, iTunes and iPods they want to conquer the media space. But the latest generation of iPods makes something clear: The iPod itself is the media center that connects to any TV. Okay, HD output is not yet possible but while connected it displays a nice TV menu and easy navigation even on older TVs. With the dock and Remote you can control your library from your couch.

But what about the wifi in the recent iPod Touch and iPhone? It should be possible to stream video to and from the iPod. You should be able to bring video to friends and connect with bonjour technology to share your personal media like photos and movies which is already possible with macs/pcs with iTunes and apple TV.

Screensharing

Screensharing could become the new norm for anything screenbased. Why not send a video/photo slideshow/keynote/powerpoint/videochat to any screen? Why not an Apple TV light that can connect to any TV/beamer and use wifi technology so you can connect with it wirelessly. Just like the Apple TV now can stream video off your mac/pc. Suddenly beamer troubles are a thing of the past and anything can connect. This could be the next HDMI cable. You could use your iPod touch as mediasource and maybe even use its screen and accelerometer as gaming device. All the groundwork is already there.

Universal Remote

With the wifi technology and bonjour auto discovery and the just announced location aware technology Apple could create a universal remote application. Why not control your airport express audio in your home or control the mood in the room with new color led lights? Or schedule a series downloads on you mac? Or control a keynote/powerpoint presentations on multiple screens?

.Mac enables you in Leopard to connect to computers and spotlight search through them. So why not control your home computer away from your home on your iPhone/iPod. Maybe with an iPhone adapted interface for finder/spotlight to transfer/show files.

The iPod Touch/iPhone could become your personal assistant that can control multiple appliances. But I think for this the touch based devices need an open SKU so anyone can built on it. It is inevitable Apple will release one when it is mature.

Multitouch

iMovie 08 created big controversies because the total rebuild. I see it as preparations for a multitouch mac. A bigger screen for easy content creation. The skimming feature in both iMovie and iPhoto and the easier drag and drop interface make multitouch easier. Also new applications like mainstage seem to hint to multitouch thinking.

Ofcourse you should also look out for any full screen interface like front row, coverflow, time machine and new apple apps like MainStage. They certainly look as prime candidates for multitouch navigation. I think multitouch is one of the reasons why Apple is so obsessed about coverflow.

If Apple releases a multitouch mac the iLife suite will be their first app to run on it. So any interface change will be a hint if multitouch is coming or not.

More integrated OS

Time machine

Preparations for better interfaces have been made in Leopard with Core Animation. New systemwide to-dos, iCal calendar, file previews (quicklook), already systemwide music, photos, video, search, passwords, email should make a new graphical interface possible that uses all the existing content. Apple experiments lightly with frontrow, dashboard, coverflow and time machine and in smaller degrees with fullscreen view in garageband and iPhoto.

We can only wait for a new integrated interface that can be summoned just like frontrow. But the question on which concept they will base the interface. Personal life, planning & GTD, contacts, entertainment? A single focus does not seem to be possible. Maybe different contexts can be switched, like frontrow is for passive entertainment and maybe iLife fullscreen interface for media creation.

More quick thoughts soon about the iPhone, location awareness (starbucks/GPS), tablet mac, iTunes store, servers etc.

Image source: apple.com (except when mentioned)

Well I am still here online and blogging. There were some quieter times but there are still topics I want to share. Putting your thoughts into concrete text really helps to evolve new ideas.

It is really weird to look at statistics. How just a thought could travel all over the world. My statistics show 700 visits per day on average (well I think a lot of those are search and spam bots) But the most mind boggling image seems the one provided by google analytics at the top. It shows the location of the visitors to this site in the past month. It is strange to see people visit from places I have never been to. To see that you share your thoughts with people from whole different environments and upbringings.

Well I will continue to blog my stories and am as always full of ideas. The us-religion is really something that sticks with me. It seems that everything in our society is on the brink of a fundamental change… I will continue to share my point of view on this change.

Where are you on the map?

Related:

• A new weblog
  
• Reflecting on 6 months of regular blogging

I was in the mood for a big change for my site. My old domain name Arquelis.com was not feeling alright anymore. It was a relic from the past and I associated it with my scifi internet time and the days when nicknames were cool. The first step on this road was naming my weblog MousLog but in the end the domain and weblog name difference was confusing my ‘brand’ to visitors.

I now want to get back to the roots and only use my own name. I seached for a short and simple domain name and chose JurMo.us.

With a new name I wanted to give the site an updated feeling. I wanted the site to look familior with the new brand so I decided not to redesign the visual design but to improve the flow and feel of the site.

The changes:

• New brand, same familior feeling
• Improved archive and category pages for better browsing through past.
• Instant search in the upper right corner
• Instant commenting
• Only the most important links in less cluttered right sidemenu. (+ for all options)
• Less clutter in general on the site.

Expect some more evolution in the site in the future. Most of the AJAX changes are thanks to the prototype and scriptalicious libraries. For those interested: you can check my code out in the source of the pages. The changes were inspired by a wordpress skin named bloxpress 2.

Well these changes came with a cost… The ranks of JurMo.us at google and technorati are 0. Help me to rebuild what is lost: Update your RSS and Blog links

I forgot to celebrate the 6 month celebration of this blog. 6 months of regular blogging…
This blog really evolved my thinking and made my search for information more specific. My ideas on some areas really got some space to evolve.

At the moment I have found two three main topics to blog on: Design, the us ‘religion’ and the new learning. They seem to define some of the main topics behind my thinking. Design is something that is at the core of what I do. I design and manage multimedia products and have learned that media is broader than I originally envisioned. Design and media is universal in our human world.

On the other front I have a vision on how the world should look like. This vision formed into something concrete on this blog but is widely influenced by the new learning of my current education and its focus on the student community. The vision became the us religion and it is named from this post on the us movement. (more on that soon)

I forgot one of the other main topics in the first version of this post… The new learning based on andragogy. It really keeps me busy with the serious games we build with our company. The interest is also spawn out of the experience with the new kind of learning at my study. My ideas on it will certainly evolve on this subject on this blog. Especially since I have some andragogy related projects on my agenda.

I begin to find a style of writing that I like. I begin to like my small experiments on making my points more visual and I am experimenting a bit with subheaders. While english is not my native language, I already get more fluently writing it. It is still not where I want it to be but it evolves in the right direction compared to where I was with my previous reflection.

The traffic on this blog trippled to 300 average per day the past 3 months since my last reflection. Mostly thanks to my blogs addition to the 9Rules network and the traffic is still growing. I don’t get much comments but I do get some nice e-mails and some good disscussions with friends out of it. I hear that people take my posts mainly as something to think about. Well I am not here to force commenting. It will happen or not. Although I invite you to discuss the posts, it helps me evolve my ideas

What is next? I am already working out some thoughts on two fronts. On the design front I am thinking of defining the emotional space better. On the us movement front I will do some more searching on what it really is and what it’s place should be. Also expect some new fronts since I am on the edge of a transition in my life: going from student to the working class.

Now on to the next 6 months of blogging!

Oh, and what do you think of the blog?

Update: added third main topic which I somehow forgot…

I checked the admin section of my weblog today and saw a new linking page: pingsix. And after visiting that site I discovered I made it with 110 others through the selection of round 4 of 9Rules! I am still one agreement away from placing the nice logo on my website.

When I submitted to 9rules I didn’t think I would make it. I was relatively new to regular blogging and thought I needed to grow a little more. But well, there was a submission round on the day I checked the 9rules site so why not just fill it in.

Some of the blogs I read were already member. Examples were I can see the logo are Creating Passionate Users, Functioning Form & David Seah. It is a big honor to become a member of this community.

For those who don’t know what 9Rules is:

The 9rules Network is a community of the best weblogs in the world on a variety of topics. We started 9rules to give passionate writers more exposure and to help readers find great blogs on their favorite subjects. It’s difficult to find sites worth returning to, so 9rules brings together the very best of the independent web all under one roof.

1. Love what you do.
2. Never stop learning.
3. Form works with function.
4. Simple is beautiful.
5. Work hard, play hard.
6. You get what you pay for.
7. When you talk, we listen.
8. Must constantly improve.
9. Respect your inspiration.

I must say I really believe in those rules and will try my best to honor them. I will continue to try evolve my thoughts. Welcome new readers and expect some postings soon on experience design related topics.

The blog exists for 3 months now. Time for a reflection! I tried to write regular posts on my previous sites and they never worked… I was more busy with tuning the experience of the site than with real content. With getting back to basics in this one I think I finally managed to write some regular posts. (Okay, I tweaked the minimalistic skin on the road)

I am still searching for what are my main topics but I see it as a real evolution. I started with some personal posts and drawings, also some reposts on interesting news and ideas elsewhere. Didn’t like the way I was just repeating others while I think my main strengths are my own formed ideas. Not that they are really there yet (will never be of course) but I like how they evolve while I write about them. I have not yet found my definitive writing style, having trouble expressing myself in a not native language. Well it is important to me to open my thoughts to the whole world and to really improve while trying.

While blogging I discovered that it is a kind of online brainstorming by venting what is on my mind and trying to structure it into a post. (my mind is pretty chaotic most of the time :p) I still have not covered all my main passions and I would like to express some of my ‘experience’ passion first. But that can change every day of course.

Oh and thanks for reading my blog It is nice to slowly see my daily visits number climb. Currently they are averaging 100 visits per day but I think most are RSS feed readers of mostly people I know. Although I hope for more feedback in the future.

Up to the next 3 months of evolution. Expect at least some coverage on the Apply Serious Games conference in London which I will attend next week.

This weblog is now more in the direction I would like to go now. I don’t need a portfolio website that showcases my abilities but more something that captures my thoughts. It fits more with what direction I would like to take in multimedia and my role as ‘CEO’ of the just founded company. As regular visitors will see I try to optimize and minimize the weblog as I go along besides writing new content.

Minimization is my first goal of the weblog interface. Provide maximum user experience by getting everything as easy as possible. Later on I will add some personal touches. But I first want find the edge of the bare minimum. I still am in the process of finding the new identity now I am on the edge of a new phase of my life. If you have suggestions for the design of the weblog or on what I should post about, please leave a comment.

Well a new weblog. Its not my first one and my previous trackrecord is failing logs after a few posts. I hope I can manage this one better.

For my Dutch friends: Why in English? Well I want to reach the biggest audience possible and I think I have some worthy opinions on some topics. This weblog will solely cover my private ideas on various topics and things that happen around me. I don’t know where I will end up but I hope it will be an interesting read.

Jurriaan Mous