Diesen Samstag hatten wir eine Powerpoint Karaoke im Kliklokal in Kaiserslautern, Schillerplatz 4. Ein schöner Event, vielleicht kommentiert ihr einfach unter den Bildern oder hier eure Eindrücke.

Insgesamt waren wir etwa 40 Leute, viele Folien, super Stimmung. Die Hütte war voll.

Hier die Pics:


https://www.flickr.com/photos/leobard/sets/72157594496501173/

Achtung! Am Donnerstag, 25.Januar 2007 abends um 20:00 ist "The Great Escape Deluxe" im Kliklokal, und am Samstag ist große Abschlussparty. Haltet es nicht geheim!

You think you are at the end of the world? You've not been to Kaiserslautern yet :-)

I, urban, want to connect to people in big cities - to do this we have projects like "silver fire" or "endless bar". We connect to people all over the world using Video-Conferencing software.

Last Friday we connected Kliklokal in Kaiserslautern with St Oberholz in Berlin. On the Kaiserslautern side were Martin, Katrin, Antoni, Jochen, etc etc on the Berlin side Richard and Arne.

Here are Arne's Pics:




Here are my Pics:

A nice Freud'scher mis-speaking happened in one of our meetings:

...In dynamic languages like poothy and rybon ....

Matt Biddulph has published notes on how he connected a hardware knob with a second life parameter. Second Life is a computer world where you can create objects, manipulate them, sell them, within a three-dimensional world. Matt used an arduino board, a kind of electrical device you can plug into a computer and play around with electronics.

Watch the video demo on his weblog.

The direction this is going is exactly what I love: connecting the world of information (secondlife, the web) with the physical world.

Now what I would love to see is to use the Nintendo WII hacked, so that I can use the WII wireless controller to get the Secondlife stuff moving.

It seems this hack is still to be done, but this video gives a light impression of what I mean:


The guys from zedomax.com have used a CUBLOC controller to create a Joystick USB device for a PC. But not a joystick, a six-axis-of-freedom-controller. The glue is some basic code on a basic controller.

People from the W3C SWEO group are wondering if anybody from the Semantic Web is giving a demo or talk at the XTech 2007 conference in France.

Are you on the XTech, presenting Semantic Web? If yes, please contact me (leo.sauermann@dfki.de) or Susie Stephens (susie.stephens@oracle.com), we want to help people find tutorial material and collect useful presentations on the Semantic Web.

Btw, The goal of the SWEO is to develop strategies and materials to increase awareness among the Web community of the need and benefit for the Semantic Web, and educate the Web community regarding related solutions and technologies.