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Larry Lessig in action at TED

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Tom Raftery
on 12/11/2007
in drm, mashup and video
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I watched Creative Commons champion Prof. Larry Lessig’s fantastic presentation to the TED Conference earlier today in awe.

How can you take a subject as potentially mind-numbing as copyright law and turn it into a standing-ovation inducing call-to-arms?

Watch the master in action to see:

Popfly mashups

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Tom Raftery
on 12/11/2007
in Microsoft, Silverlight and mashup
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After Steve Clayton demoed it to me last week, I decided to try playing around with Microsoft’s Popfly. Popfly is a tool for creating Mashups in Silverlight, with a drag and drop interface.

Popfly

It comes with a tutorial (on right) and the interface is easy to get used to. In fact it is even easier to use than Yahoo Pipes.

I built the app below in a few clicks. It displays the status of my Facebook contacts.

This app was created in Firefox on my MacBook Pro.

One glitch I did note was that you can’t write into the Search box (when using Firefox on a Mac).

Any questions for David Berlind?

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Tom Raftery
on 24/10/2007
in Interviews, PodLeaders, Podcast and mashup
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David Berlind is the executive editor at ZDNet. David is also one of the founders of Mashup Camp.

What is Mashup Camp? According to the About page Mashup Camp is:

an unconference-style event that’s dedicated to bringing together the Internet software mashup community for a face-to-face collaborative meetup where new relationships are formed, old relationships are nurtured, ideas are shared, mutiple balls are moved forward, and innovation happens in real-time.

David is involved in the organisation of Europe’s first Mashup Camp which will be held in Ireland on 10th-12th of November (07).

I will be interviewing David for a podcast tomorrow morning (Oct 25th - apologies for the late notification). If you have any questions you’d like me to put to David, feel free to leave thm in the comments.

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