king talk

The RIA World conference will take place in Munich on November the 10th and 11th – and I will be there as a speaker. I am still working on the talk, but in general, it will be about the evolution of what is called »Rich Internet Applications«. Once they were the little brother of desktop applications. Today they are becoming more and more powerful and have already started to reach many kinds of devices like desktops, mobile phones and TV sets.

I’ll try to link concepts that are usually considered to belong to the domain of interaction design or installation design to the realm of internet applications.

I’ve recently been interviewed by Arata Sasaki from the Japanese Hitspaper. We talked about our projects, our design process and our views on the world as designers in general. Make sure to check out the whole piece here! It’s in English and Japanese.

This week we crept in the innovation café at FH Munich, because Philipp Karmires (Enterprise Account Manager) was talking about »start-up mentality as the road to success«. He pointed out that Google has to fight short development periods of a 1/2 year while automotive companies are developing up to 7 years to launch a new model (except Toyota). Afterwards he showed the »5 pillar model« of Google which is based on Scale, Platform, SearchAdsApps, Footprint and Trust. At the end of the talk, the topic Trust resulted in a l00ong discussion about the trustfulness of Google. Maybe it has something to do with the Google Masterplan video on youtube?

After this, Philipp was talking about »Sergey´s Resource Allocation Rule« (which is pretty similar to our allocation of the designprocess). Every Google employee is organising like this…

70% for Search, Ad & Apps:
improving search quality, page crawl, page index, AdWords, Google Apps

20% for Strong Potential:
Scholar, Picasa, Blogger, News, Pack, Froogle Wireless, orkut

10% for Wild & Crazy Stuff:
Google Wave, offline Ads, Google Wifi, Google Transit

For those who don´t know the latest Google App called Wave, which is still under development right now, we have a video for you…

At the end of the talk he brought some statistics which were just impressing:
- 1 Billions of queries at Google everyday
- 80 Billions of eMails and SMS send everyday
- 130 Billions of e-commerce transactions are held everyday
- 250 Million people are part of a social online network
- 500 Million youtube videos are uploaded per day, this means that every Minute 12 hours of movie are added to the site

After all it was very informative event. We will see who will be there next time at SCE…

Due to high work traffic at envis we couldn´t manage it to visit one of europe´s finest design festivals. It´s the OFFF …

Computerlove has made a nice review, which made us feeling like we have been there. A nice documentation about the talks of Neville Brody, Karsten Schmidt, U.V.A., OneSize, PES, Paula Scher, Joshua Davis, SiScott Studio, Digital Kitchen, Stefan Sagmeister and Kyle Cooper. Maybe we will visit Portugal next year  ; )

Yesterday my project partner Jens Franke and me held a talk at fmx/09, the 14. international conference on animation, effects, games and digital media. We presented the chemieraum project within the framework of the 10th junior showcase for »eyes and ears of europe« (EEOFE). We felt the pleasant vibes there and met some people from other universities like University of Arts Vienna, KISD Cologne, Georg Simon Ohm University Nuremberg, SAE Hamburg/Berlin, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Filmakademie Ludwigsburg and especially many guys from FH Augsburg… ; ) Some of them calling themselves bunch of monkeys for doing some media installation stuff. While I was trying to get something for lunch I met some Interaction Design students from my old University HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd and felt like beeing a student again for one day. It´s a small world, really!

Unfortunately I just had time to visit two other talks, but these were fine. The first one was held by Zachary Lieberman about »making the invisible visible«. He talked about some of his projects like drawn, talk, the AR card magic and the Ars Electronica sound reactive installation (which I already knew form Joel Lewis talk at TOCA ME). Of course Zach (as a OF contributor) featured openframeworks as the ultimate tool… ; ) The second lecture was about »the tinkerer´s box« from the Quasimondo aka Mario Klingemann (incubator project site). He did some nice artworks with basic geometrical shapes like circles and triangles using Flash AS3.

It´s a pity that I have to work today. Maybe I´ll find some time for a short fmx visit before I head home to Bavaria again. If you are interested to be there next year just write a mail to info[at]eeofe[dot]de…

Shout out to Kristijan and the blonde girl which name I forgot (sorry) for taking these pictures…