The Macworld Podcast heads south toward the time to come this week . More specifically , I ’m in San Diego for theO’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2006 , an annual event focusing on mellow - tech vogue .
This year ’s conference focalise on the Attention Economy , a phrase dealing with cause to streamline information usance . I sat in on a few sessions I ’d like to call your attention to — everything from discussions of the Firefox extension Greasemonkey to Amazon ’s Mechanical Turk . We ’ll close out the show with a look at future of multi - touch substance abuser interfaces , include an interview withJeff HanofNew York University , speak about his research in this field .
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Show notes
The first excerpt in this podcast comes fromMark Pilgrim , author ofGreasemonkey Hacks . He presented a school term on Greasemonkey , a Firefox extension that give up you to remix the Web by add your own JavaScripts to any WWW page . you’re able to installGreasemonkeyas well asrelated scripts .
The 2d excerpt from the O’Reilly conference featuresFelipe Cabreraof Amazon , who sing about Amazon ’s newMechanical Turkservice , named forthe 18th hundred dupery that purpose to be a chess - play mechanical gimmick .
In addition to Amazon ’s Cabrera , we also hear from Nathan McFarland ofCastingWords.com , a new inauguration that use Mechanical Turk to make transcript of podcasts .
Finally , Jeff Hantalks about his inquiry onmulti - tactile sensation substance abuser interfaces . ( The embedded data link will show the telecasting I refer to during the podcast . )
Music credits
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