Mastodawn

Allee Willis's dreams have come true, but I wonder how many are actively collaborating on meaningful projects. It seems that very few are involved in such efforts, even within this space.
Many appear to be focused on their own postings or simply networking for marches.
I hope we can also see creative collaborations moving forward.

#networking #collaboration #asocialnetworks #interaction #collaborativenetworks #AlleeWillis

Mix Mistress Alice💄5d ago

"In 1991, Allee Willis became one of the first music artists to recognize and evangelize the Internet as an upcoming new form of mass entertainment following radio, television, and cinema. She came up with an idea of willisville, a visual collaborative network and interactive, story-driven online social world. Preceding modern social networks by at least a decade, willisville was supposed to combine traditional media, commerce, and virtual games by allowing Internet users to connect with each other to share ideas, collaborate, and exchange information. Mark Cuban (who later owned NBA team Dallas Mavericks and pioneered online streaming for sport events) became a CEO, while producer and multimedia artist Prudence Fenton (Grammy winner for Peter Gabriel's Steam video) joined Allee as one of the chief engineers and designers of the project.
Several showbiz and tech giants, such as AOL, Microsoft, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., and Disney recognized a business potential of the concept, while Intel Corporation sponsored a creation of willisville prototype in 1995. The project turned out to be too innovative for the mid-nineties, though, and was abandoned several years later."—Discogs [Unsourced]

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Marie 🇸🇪Apr 13

The Dutch supermarket chain Jumbo has introduced approx 200 special checkout lanes called "chat checkouts," across its stores in the Netherlands. Designed for customers, particularly elderly, who appreciate a slower-paced checkout that allows time for friendly conversation with cashiers.
The initiative aims to combat loneliness among seniors & foster social interaction within the community. ->

#lonelyness #chat #friendly #interaction #supermarket

Membranophonist Apr 9

I am happy to see research toward breaking out of the constraints of 2D for interacting with digital information. This is a hell of a lot more interesting to me than strapping a display to your face.

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-04-holograms.html

#Interaction #Interface #Holography #HCI

Holograms that can be grabbed and manipulated

Researchers have succeeded, for the first time, in displaying three-dimensional graphics in mid-air that can be manipulated with the hands. The team includes Doctor Elodie Bouzbib, from Public University of Navarra (UPNA), together with Iosune Sarasate, Unai Fernández, Manuel López-Amo, Iván Fernández, Iñigo Ezcurdia and Asier Marzo (the latter two, members of the Institute of Smart Cities).

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kai quix Apr 7

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i settled on the tagline for this blog, "liveblogging the apocalypse", well before the election -- it's not a fresh concept. a particular facet i feel like exploring now is that notion that came around during pandemic -- for interactions, assume(x), where x = "the feeling of everything crumbling in shocking ways so fast that we're reeling" talking to each other during pandemic had "... y'know, because of the shutdown." in this moment, what with the fascist takeover, US-backed genocide, […]

https://quix.lol/2025/04/jesus-fucking-christ/

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