EchoTech » Prior Art http://www.echo-technology.co.uk technology blogging for the moribund Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:35:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 The Prior Art Project – Open Source Ideas http://www.echo-technology.co.uk/2009/02/15/the-prior-art-project-open-source-ideas/ http://www.echo-technology.co.uk/2009/02/15/the-prior-art-project-open-source-ideas/#comments Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:03:01 +0000 Richard Stelling http://www.echo-technology.co.uk/?p=206

I’ve had this idea for a few weeks and I finally want to move it forward or forget it.

In a nut shell Prior Art will be a podcast (weekly or bi-monthly to start) that will discuss ideas and inventions sent in by listeners. The stated invention is to enter into the public domain ideas and systems before large corporations and patent trolls can patent them.

By discussing them “on air” with technology experts and providing a forum to discuss these ideas I hope to speed up the dissemination of great ideas ultimately leading to real world and practical applications.

The show will be 30-40 minutes, consisting of 3 or 4 segments with technology experts, commentators, bloggers, developers etc. Interviews will be conducted over Skype, interviewees will be encouraged to constructively comment on the ideas of that weeks show. A range of experts will discuss the technological and business aspects of the idea.

Listeners will be encouraged to comment on the ideas and also create examples, hopefully leading to some interesting collaborations and great new technology.

A tentative tag line is, “Open Source Ideas” and the show its self will be licensed under creative commons.

What I need is, firstly you thoughts on the idea and show format. Secondly ideas to discuss in the show and thirdly experts, commentators bloggers, enthusiasts willing to give up 30 minutes to recored their segment. I won’t be paying anyone, but you can shamelessly plug your blog, book, web site etc…

How can you help?

1. Send me ideas

2. Sign Up to record a segment (send me an email or get me on Twitter)

3. Tweet about it (don’t forget a link to this blog post)

4. Leave a comment bellow about ideas etc

5. Digg this blog post

6. Blog about the idea.

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As part of my Prior Art project I am publishing these Twitter syntax ideas I would like to see implemented.

We all know the standard Twitter syntax elements (#, @, d), these are documented below. Please leave comments and your own ideas (and correct my mistakes).

Current Syntax

Name Syntax Example
Hash Tag #, #keyword Used to denote keywords and aid search
At @, @username Used to indicate a Twitter user
Direct Message d, d username Used send a direct message to selected user

(please leave undocumented syntax in the comments)
 

Future Syntax

Name Syntax Example
 Group  +, +work or +school Used to send the same tweet to multiple recipients, groups are user specified.The +group_name is never tweeted, instead multiple @username_nth messages are created.    

Groups should be limited to 20-50 members.
 Private  $, $ [message] Messages prefixed with $ are private and only followers can read and the tweet will not appear in the public time line or search.
Compressed / Encrypted  ?, ?[compressed message] Messages that start with ? are compressed and will require spacial software to uncompress.   

This also might indicate an encrypted message. This would most often be combined with $.

(please leave undocumented syntax in the comments)

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