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+title: 'BlogTalk Reloaded 1.7'
+date: '2006-10-02T08:29:01-04:00'
+permalink: /blogtalk-reloaded-17/
+tags:
+    - conferences
+---
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+Panel 5: Frank Mantek and Jeremy Ruston
+
+(tags: [blogtalkreloaded](http://technorati.com/tag/blogtalkreloaded))
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+panel 5
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+frank mantek
+
+“the google data api”
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+ways software can suck
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+apis hinder usage of software in pocket pc
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+what happens when you lose your cell phone? too complicated for most people to back up or synchronize data on cell phone
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+google maps api isn’t really an api–the exciting thing is that we can get at the data
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+google calendar, blogger, google base use apis
+
+okay, i gotta confess, i’m just not following this at all. didn’t get my nap this afternoon, and it’s catching up with me.
+
+jeremy ruston
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+“why wiki? a glimpse of our post-document future”
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+osmosoft (inventor of tiddlywiki)
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+one wiki feature that tiddlywiki doesn’t have: multiple authorship
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+instead, personal wiki–semantics of document, but with wiki functionality
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+rear-view mirrorism of microsoft word’s notion of “document”
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+“crushing disadvantages” of wysiwyg display–esp. linking
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+problems with online documents–like newspaper articles–they don’t link within text, but include list of links externally, in sidebar
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+wiki pages, by contrast, are most known by their internal links
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+jacob neilsen on documents: useit.com/alertbox/hype.html
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+(we’re writing on web, but office tools we use barely support linking)
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+analysis of tiddlywiki’s linking structures
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+desire for applications that link content and functionality
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+(jotspot)
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