Working full time on this means that Will and I should be able to make much more progress, much more quickly, and to work with other projects and representatives from efforts like Drupal, BuddyPress and MovableType to get interop happening (eventually) between each project’s implementation. Since then, Stephen Paul Weber has jumped in and released additional plugins for OAuth, XRDS-Simple, actionstreams and profile import, and this was when the project was just a side project. This lead me to start “sketching” ideas for WordPress plugins that would be useful in a distributed social network, and eventually Steve came up with the name, registered the domain, and we were off! It was really stupidly simple, but when we combined it with Will Norris’ OpenID plugin, we realized that we were on to something - since contact lists were already represented as URLs, we now had a way to verify whether the person who ostensibly owned one of those URLs was leaving a comment, or signing in, and we could thereby add new features, expose private content or any number of other interesting social networking-like thing! Basically Steve Ivy and I started hacking on a plugin that I’d written that added hcards to your contact list or blogroll. The reality is that people have long been able to connect to one another using technology - what was the first telegraph transmission if not the earliest poke heard round the world? The problem that we have today is that, with the proliferation of fairly large, non-interoperable social networks, it’s not as easy as email or telephones have been to connect to people, and so, the next generation of social networks are invariably going to need to make the process of connecting over the divides easier, safer and with less friction if people really are going to, as expected, continue to increase their use of the web for communication and social interaction. These projects don’t accidentally relate to people using technology to behave socially: they exist to make it easier, and better, for people to use the web (and related technologies) to connect with one another safely, confidently, and without the need to to sign up with any particular network just to talk to their friends and people that they care about. Her film sound credits include such masterpieces as Denis Villeneuve’s Oscar-Award-Winning Arrival and Neil Blomkamp’s Elysium and Chappie.Well, Twitter, along with Marshall and his post on ReadWriteWeb, beat me to it, but I’m pretty excited to announce that, yes, I am joining Vidoop, along with Will Norris, to work full time on the DiSo ( distributed social) Project.įor quite some time I’ve wanted to get the chance to get back to focusing on the work that I started with Flock - and that I’ve continued, more or less, with my involvement and advocacy of projects like microformats, OpenID and OAuth. Michelle Child is a sound editor and designer, residing in Wellington, New Zealand, where she works on sound post-production for films and interactive media. It enables me to shape and contour sounds in ways I had only previously dreamed of, forging unimaginable creations out of sounds no sane person would ever combine." I used MORPH almost daily while developing some of the signature Heptapod sounds – MORPH is perfect for creature and robotic vocals. Recently, my partner Dave Whitehead and I designed the alien vocals for Denis Villeneuve's film Arrival. Its superb algorithms and smooth formant shifter allow me to generate sounds so unusual that even I sometimes forget what the original sources were. Zynaptiq MORPH has quickly become my go-to plugin for designing sounds that are out of this world. "As a sound designer, I am constantly searching for new ways to manipulate sound.
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