Proposed Wikitube Interaction Design (Nibipedia)

The original Nibipedia design was impossible in 2008, does it make sense today? Please comment below.

Our code is now open source. This is just one of many possible ways to use it.

Special thanks to @jamesburkeweb and @tedtalksdirector for being so awesome. Connections is available on DVD and watch for new TED Talks every weekday.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• education
• automated
• agents
• start
• ups
• mobile
• apps
• edtech
• Wikitube

[westseacat]

Bravo Troy--I sent a couple of edits facebook direct. This is good and glad to hear re open source. Is it possible to get more live action from the Ted talk/Burke when you start that section? The static shot of him adjusting his tie is a little distracting. Coolio!

[nibipedia]

@westseacat Yes, it's possible, but sadly, not being a video editor I had to run with what I could do easily to get the idea out. Fortunately, it's not a marketing video but a motion demo for future developers to watch. THANK YOU so much for the feedback. A new video will be up in minutes to explain. #promise

[PeleRaymond]

Troy, thanks for your response ... although I hesitate to believe that a few pieces of technical functionality are the main causes for the 2008 no-go. I'd bet that business issues, not technology, were the main show-stoppers, and I think that, with this new BUSINESS model you're proposing, i.e. outsourcing it to the "open" collaboration community, you'll probably get much more working and selling from this effort. Bravo.

[nibipedia]

@PeleRaymond Our first mistake was to change the terms of use. "We neither own it, nor do we control it and you can use it for anything, forever." Everything after that led to complexity that took a simple idea and turned it into something impossible to use. That said, this video is the original idea that came to me while listening to "A Brief History of Nearly Everything" audiobook, I wanted Wikipedia articles to pop up while I listened. It was originally the superconductingmemesupercollid­er

[waytoocoolyeah]

MN Physicist you are dead on regarding people and learning. I appreciate your comment because it allows me to comment about what's not outlined this video. 1) synchronous collaboration are part of the Apple iOS environment and soon video chat will be available for in developers to use in apps. There're a few reasons it didn't make the vid. 1) In app vid chat is still "magic" and I wanted to keep the demo to tech that is available on both Android and Apple right now. 2) Because I don't know

[mnphysicist]

People are the key to nearly any approach to education... Efficiency increases multifold when one has peers to banter about on a topic, even more so, when combined with the availability of an expert and likewise a feedback mechanism to keep one on track. Such was what I read into nibipedia's potential back when... Guess I misunderstood where you were going.

[progwonk]

@nibipedia Milton Glaser went on to make a shirt.

[nibipedia]

@PeleRaymond I think the secret sauce will be in combining an open source recommendation engine to suggest people who know about the topic and then connecting you to topics and people who like those topics. Those people will have amazing credibility because they belong in your "affinity group". While not impossible then, you did need a computer scientist to create a working recommendation engine. Now, it's open source as well.

[nibipedia]

@PeleRaymond The iPad = multitouch device in a closed environment. Multitouch allows you to easily manage tons of data as in the "bookmark view" which zooms in and out so you're not limited by screen space. Auto caption data is also new and is the secret sauce to the automatic queries. (remember, we initially HIRED curators to add this info because it couldn't be done automatically.)

[nibipedia]

@jaugesen I'm not sure I get the question, but I'll do my best. @progwonk and I knew multitouch would be coming in 2006 because of the Jeff Han TED talk and I was already obsessed with the idea of web video as my previous business could have used it to cut marketing/travelling costs. Knowing that these two things would make possible (multitouch + video). If you want to know about the future watch TED talks director.