Re: The upcoming user interface "Dizmo" and the Semantic Web, any Ideas?

Droplets was the other one that I was thinking of.
So the q. is how is this different to previous attempts.
Also the business model is not clear from kickstarter.
We get access to an SDK, what does that mean in terms of code ownership and
service hosting?
Where is money being made?
There are other players in the space with varying degrees of
componentisation.

Adam



On 25 February 2014 02:17, David Booth <david@dbooth.org> wrote:

> Cool!   I could imagine RDF being used for the metadata to describe the
> dizmos and how they connect and interact -- perhaps serialized as JSON-LD
> -- but I assume they've already decided on something for that.
>
> David
>
>
> On 02/24/2014 04:15 PM, Urs Holzer wrote:
>
>> Hi together
>>
>> A company located in an office on the same floor I am working on is
>> creating a
>> new graphical touch/desktop/whatever user interface called Dizmo[1] and I
>> intend to persuade them to incorporate support for the Semantic Web.
>> Obviously, I
>> also like to promote their Kickstarter campaign[2].
>>
>> Their user interface is optimized for touch and also various pointing
>> devices.
>> It runs HTML/JavaScript applications called Dizmos which can be freely
>> placed
>> and rotated on the screen (or table or fridge or whatever the display
>> surface
>> may be). It supports multitouch in a way that allows several users to
>> work on
>> the same display, only limited by the hardware's capabilities. Dizmos can
>> be
>> shared among different devices and they are synchronised in real time.
>> Additionally, two dizmos can be connected in a way similar to a UNIX pipe.
>>
>> It would be nice if there were Dizmos presenting data from the Semantic
>> Web,
>> allowing one to interact with and modify this data.
>>
>> I would be interested in your ideas for use cases of Dizmo in context of
>> the
>> Semantic Web. Two ideas I have come up with:
>> 1. I could imagine Dizmo being used at meetings: Each participant brings a
>> tablet or laptop with a Dizmo cotaining his FOAF profile. At the
>> beginning of
>> the meeting, everyone would transfer his Dizmo onto the meeting table and
>> move
>> it onto a meeting minutes Dizmo in order to store who attended the
>> meeting.
>> The graph created by this procedure could then later be published on a web
>> site.
>> 2. A Dizmo could show the newest entry in an RSS feed and another Dizmo
>> connected to it could show the FOAF profile of the respective author.
>>
>> Additionally, I'd like to collect some Ideas from a more technical point
>> of
>> view: The Dizmos are written in JavaScript and can of course make HTTP
>> requests. So, an obvious way to go would be to run a HTTP service that
>> stores
>> RDF and allows the Dizmos to query it. This service could be enhanced
>> with a
>> reasoner. This would make it straight forward to use existing tools such
>> as
>> Sgvizler[3] inside a Dizmo.
>> Another tempting idea would be to integrate RDF and a reasoner directly
>> into
>> the Dizmo core. Every Dizmo could be described in RDF. This would allow
>> one to
>> do reasoning about the Dizmos themselves and maybe even influence them
>> this
>> way.
>>
>> I also accept any further hints on how to get the developers of Dizmo
>> interested in the Semantic Web. (mindblowing presentations, papers,
>> existing
>> applications that could appeal these guys.)
>>
>> I am greatful for any smart ideas so I can try to move Dizmo a bit
>> towards the
>> Semantic Web.
>>
>> Greetings
>> Urs
>>
>> [1]: http://www.dizmo.com/
>> [2]: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/114216817/dizmo-a-
>> new-revolutionary-user-interface
>> [3]: http://dev.data2000.no/sgvizler/
>>
>>
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