Hallo Kaiserslauterer,

der nächste Great Escape findet am 13.November 2006 im Glockencafe statt!!! nicht am Montag, dem 6.Nov.

sagt es weiter, bloggt, schreibt was ihr bringen wollt und ruft die Menschen zusammen. Es wird wieder projeziert, Möglichkeiten des Präsentierens usw.

lg
Leo für die Digitalcouch

a few days ago, I read this very well done article by New York Times on Bob Burnquist who build the worlds biggest skateboard ramp.

Basically, he build a 280.000$ ramp on his land in California. They say he build it in the backyard of his house, but given the dimension of the more-than-a-footballfield large construction, the house is rather in the backyard of the ramp.

If you don't have a login for NYTimes, click dontbuggme or get an account, this article is worth looking at.

and you must watch the video.

The DFKI Knowledge Management lab is proud to release Gnowsis version 0.9.2

Gnowsis is a tool for realising a Semantic Desktop - a desktop where all your data is inter-linked and related. Gnowsis gives you a tool for structuring your data as well as your thoughts! This release is part of the Nepomuk project, providing a prototype implementation of some core services.

To see what gnowsis looks like, watch the videos that Dominik Heim made:
GNOWSIS Videos

• http://gnowsis.opendfki.de/wiki/GnowsisUsage

Gnowsis has a range of features for helping you manage your personal information:

• Integration with Aperture for easy integration of the data in the applications
  you already use on your desktop! This release is based on the Aperture Framework
  Release 3, for more information about aperture see http://aperture.sourceforge.net

• A new approach to personal information management. We call it your PIMO.
• Integration with the Semantic Wiki Kaukolu, see http://kaukoluwiki.opendfki.de
  for information
• goodies for developers: AJAX support with XML/RPC
• Quick and easy full-text searching of all your data using Lucene.

Additional new added in this release include:

• Web2.0 Goodies: bookmarklets for tagging pages and creating things, geo tagging of PIMO Locations and showing these on a google-map, showing creation and modification of PIMO things on a Simile Timeline
• Many additional data-sources, both from aperture, and some additional web2.0
  sites, such as flickr, bibsonomy and del.icio.us!
• Support for PIMO synchronisation over SSH
• Many many bug fixes and minor enhancement

Download gnowsis here:

http://www.gnowsis.org/Download

And for additional information see

• http://www.gnowsis.org
• http://gnowsis.opendfki.de

Contributors to this release include Malte Kiesel, Benjamin Horack, Dominik
Heim, Sebastian Weber, Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes, Leo Sauermann, Antoni Mylka