• Peer Pressure - The Web: Services and Applications
  Chris Dent on his work on TiddlyWeb. As I’ve said, this is the most fun I’ve ever had watching someone else write code…
  (tags: tiddlyweb chrisdent tiddlywiki rest webservices wiki)

• bomomo
  Mesmerising device for making interactive pretty patterns. Looks like it’s powered by the canvas element, apart from IE which falls back to Flash
  (tags: ajax animation toy drawing javascript canvas web2.0)

• DRM Blog : Blogs : BCS
  Yuck. The BCS run a naff little blog spreading misinformation about DRM. I didn’t realise they were idiots
  (tags: bcs britishcomputersociety drm digitalrightsmanagement)

• TiddlyWiki Code Swarm on Vimeo
  An animation of TiddlyWiki code repository activity, created by Paul Downey using Code Swarm
  (tags: tiddlywiki repository visualisation subversion tiddlywikidev)

• Osmocast - Confabb NoteShare on Vimeo
  Phil Hawksworth and Paul Downey discuss their work on the Confabb NoteShare for the Personal Democracy Forum in New York last week
  (tags: osmosoft tiddlywiki ripplerap confabb pauldowney philhawksworth)
• Zoomii.com - The “Real” Online Bookstore
  Applies the Google Maps zoomable user interface to Amazon
  (tags: ajax zoominguserinterface zui ui amazon googlemaps javascript)

The organisers have posted the video from the talk that I gave at the Next08 conference in Hamburg earlier this month. It doesn’t seem to be possible to link directly to the video; you’ll need to scroll down until you find “Jeremy Ruston”:

http://www.next-conference.com/next08/program.html

I was a bit more nervous than usual because I was standing in at short-ish notice for my boss. I added some laconicity, but the material is essentially his, as you can see in this video of JP giving the talk last December at LeWeb 3 in Paris. Osmosoft helped out with the slides, using RippleRap and TiddlyWiki to maintain my strict PowerPoint quarantine.

Happily at least one person liked it.

• AutoTiddlySaver - experimental delivery of TiddlySaver.jar
  Me exploring better ways to distribute the special applet TiddlyWiki uses to save on Safari and Opera
  (tags: tiddlywiki autotiddlysaver tiddlysaver webdev datauri)
• Paul Fremantle’s Blog: Open Source versus Open Standards
  “Open Standards enable companies to compete in a structured way. Open Source projects enable people or companies to collaborate in a structured way”. Nice (via psd)
  (tags: opensource openstandards open foss)

• actionshrimp.com » jsvi and TiddlyWiki
  Dave Aitken has done a beautiful integrated a version of the venerable Vi command-line editor with TiddlyWiki
  (tags: tiddlywiki actionshrimp daveaitken jsvi vi webdev)

Along with several of my Osmonaught colleagues, I will be attending OpenTech 2008 in London on Saturday July 5th 2008. It’s a very low cost event (£5 to get in!), and is focussed nicely on the hacker community. I went to the last one in 2005 and had a great time.

This time, I’m giving a talk entitled “TiddlyWiki Tales” which will be a round-up the latest TW developments, both from Osmosoft and the wider community. Later on in the day, my colleague Paul Downey is talking about “The Web as Agreement“.

We’re also holding a competition with a TiddlyWiki flavour and some interesting prizes:

The TiddlyWiki OpenTech competition gives you the chance to win a BUG (plus four modules)! The BUG base station and modules use open source software and snap together to create whatever device you want. There’s also a great second prize of a GP2X Linux powered handheld games console. A stack of O’Reilly books will be the third prize.

For your chance to win one of these great prizes, all you have to do is show us your TiddlyWiki skills. TiddlyWiki is written entirely in javascript, and has a great plugin architecture, so just like the BUG you can twist it to do whatever you want. It can pull in RSS feeds, and because it can be a local file (and you don’t have to worry about same domain policies), it’s great for mashups. There are already 400+ plugins you can use, but don’t let that stop you from writing your own new ones!

(See the Osmosoft site for full details).

• Paul Downey :: TiddlyProcessing
  Paul Downey’s marvellous mashup of Processing.js and TiddlyWiki makes it easy to experiment with animations and visualisations
  (tags: psd pauldowney tiddlywiki processing processingjs javascript visualisation animation vizualisation)