These are entries by alex only. Go to the Soda journal to see entries by all soda team members.
Passing by 26 November 07
Soda friend and collaborator James Tindall brings us Passingby, a never ending video journey assembled from brief travel glimpses from around the world. Add your own clips via youTube or just sit back and enjoy.
Secret Moovl fan? 17 May 07
One of my countless automated internet spys recently noticed a brand new moovl blog on the interwebs. Soda is clueless as to who is running it, but whoever it is - they are doing a good job promoting our much loved Moovl.
Bets are on our publisher being the culprit - but nobody really knows. A mystery!
Is subscription the next search? 19 January 07
Richard Sedley, director of cScape‘s Customer Engagement Unit, asked Soda to contribute a few thoughts for a small end of year brochure reflecting on the space we are working in (or rather one of the spaces soda is):
Search is key to the internet - it has been for a while and it will be for the foreseeable future. Unfortunately the very nature of searching always requires the user to have quite detailed knowledge of what he/she is actually looking for. Subscription is an powerful alternative way to access the vast amount of information on offer. Rather then searching for specific information you subscribe to a trusted source of information. Just like search, subscription is well established and supported already. There are few online publishers left who do not yet offer their content for subscription via RSS, atom, or email.
The challenge lies in helping users to identify the trustworthy and valuable sources and more importantly, to manage and maintain a vast collection of these sources. The real danger we need to mitigate against is that of loosing control, not because there is too much noise but because there is a such colossal quantity of potentially valuable signal.
Standpedia.com 3 August 06
Standpedia.com - a wiki-style encyclopedia of controversy - allows users to ask and discuss difficult questions, all nicely presented via an interactive visual map. The ambition for these maps is to represent a well balanced range of views rather then a single definitive answer. Already there is a very interesting set of maps available, some of which have already started to ponder the system (standpedia.com) itself. See also Standpoint.com. (via solutionwatch)
Soccer World Cup on soda? 5 July 06
There aren’t many soda members taking an interest in the world of soccer (well, there are some) but with the World Cup in Germany unfolding it can hardly be ignored. And I just found a nice web 2.0 aspect to the whole thing:
Yahoo/FIFA have a section on the official World Cup site called the 12th man. Among other things they invite their visitors to share their countless pictures using certain tags on flickr. Some of these pictures are then added to a gallery. Unfortunately they apply a very not-flickr-like moderation to the whole thing so that the gallery has only a few hundred images whereas flickr already sports several thousend correctly tagged pictures.
But still, it is good to see what used to be a niche practice entering the main stream (it is FIFA after all). And we have very recently done something similar sans moderation on b.tween2cultures.net, too.
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