Glen Murphy

Homemaker, bikebreaker, funfetticaker Prev: Paperboy, Artist, Designed Chrome, Chrome OS, and Android 6-12/Pixel 1-6

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[Glen Murphy @gmurphy]

@rsms @rsnous One of our dreams for beacons was that they wouldn't just advertise, but offer a mini ui protocol, maybe a bit like WAP - human and machine readable. I still think there's something there, perhaps as an standard interface/browser for arduino projects

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@cleerview I remember seeing your folio and interview and being like "GIVE ME ONE OF THOSE IMMEDIATELY"; a definitive moment for Chrome, too 🥰

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@aboodman I had PTSD from being "the XML guy"

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The Rone exhibit at Flinders St station was absolutely stunning - the imagery, space design, details, light, and sound were all impeccable

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So control over user agents will be an interesting battle - the big players will be bigger targets for publisher litigation; server-side agents will be much easier to block. It'll be game on to win consumer opinion quickly, and smaller players have an advantage here

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Some quick thoughts on how GPT/LLM/AI features could be added to browsers, phones, and operating systems, going from where we are today through to platforms-as-we-know-them-don't-exist:

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A massive thing to think through is the ecosystem impact - abstracting away developer control has echos of the incentive issues that lead to no-one buying into the semantic web, but this time the the user agent is in control

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@mahemoff also the equalization between people who post 100 times a day and those who post once - mastodon was unusable until I unfollowed some people I love