YOYODYNE – Where the future begins tomorrow.

From the because-helping-great-projects-should-sometimes-not-be-all-serious department and via http://awesomefoundation.org/) Thursday, December 16th, 2010 Today, the Berlin chapter of the Awesome Foundation was proud to announce the first grand winner. Many applicants were present this morning at Betahaus when we had the honor to hand over a brown paper bag filled with 1000 EUR to Konrad who convinced [...]

So, I won an award in my home country, Denmark. Truth be said, I sometimes jokingly refer to this event to as Old Media Days. Because it caters mainly to media professionals from the established industry, has a steep participation fee (6500 DKK – roughly 1300 USD) and because it has been fairly conservative until [...]

open video and more videos coming soon – sorry for lack of theora: if you click thru to vimeo page you can download source

Message from Evan Roth:- I’m in BCN trying to sort out logistics etc GML in Barcelona… I’m headed to Barcelona on Wednesday for the Mozilla Drumbeat Festival. I’m going to be running some formal (and some informal) sessions surrounding Graffiti Markup Language. Hackers can find me on Thursday (Nov. 4th) at 11:30am in Monochrom’s hackerspace [...]

Non-flash (h264 .mov) here Context (from http://www.eyewriter.org/) Legendary LA graffiti writer, publisher and activist, named TEMPTONE. Tempt1 was diagnosed with ALS in 2003, a disease which has left him almost completely physically paralyzed… except for his eyes. An international team (Members of Free Art and Technology (FAT), OpenFrameworks, the Graffiti Research Lab, and The Ebeling [...]

I pulled Aza Raskin and Atul Varma aside on a busy day in Mountain View and asked: “What are you going to do at Drumbeat Festival“? Shooting from the hip, Atul suggested using Etherpad for teaching/learning HTML. Aza – departing from a Margaret Mead quote: “Never underestimate the power of a small but committed group [...]

Berlin is an amazing place – and more so if you’re an artist, cultural entrepreneur or digital media pioneer. There is a certain “anything is possible” vibe, rent’s cheap, and though Berlin is perpetually broke, people get by and do cool shit. Startups like Soundcloud draw attention to a nascent, cutting edge tech scene. Since [...]

Joi Ito interviews Maxwell Salzberg, Diaspora by moltke This is my first ever upload to Soundcloud, yo! I was eating lunch with Joi when Max came by and joined. Joi decided to do an interview on his flip camera, and I recorded the audio. Its a good insight into Diaspora and their plans. And I [...]

This is a quick’n dirty html5 demo done by Brian Chirls​ at OVC Video hack day – original video (c) OK Go. One correction: This does not – as previously stated – use popcorn.js (yet) and is based on this code. In addition the optimization, the chroma key algorithm is different. Oh, go check out [...]

Open Web Award (via Transmedial) Nominated for the Open Web Award are three projects that critically consider and make use of the potential of the Open Web.  They have an online component, implement open and free technology and facilitate participation and collaboration. Drumbeat Project Producer Henrik Moltke represented award partner Mozilla at the jury session. [...]