MySpace, the world’s most popular social network, alongside Yahoo!, eBay, Photobucket, and Twitter, have announced the launch of the MySpace ‘Data Availability’ initiative to empower the global MySpace community to share their public profile data to websites of their choice throughout the Internet. The launch of the Data Availability initiative marks the first time that a social Website has enabled its community to dynamically share public profile information with other sites.
“The walls around the garden are coming down—the implementation of Data Availability injects a new layer of social activity and creates a more dynamic Internet,” said Chris DeWolfe, CEO and co-founder of MySpace. “We, alongside our Data Availability launch partners, are pioneering a new way for the global community to integrate their social experiences Web-wide.”
Data Availability pioneers a new way for users to dynamically share their user generated content and data with websites of their choosing. The Data Availability initiative is founded first and foremost on the simple and comprehensive user control of their own content and data—users will have control over what information they share and who they share it with. Additionally, rather than updating information across the Web (eg. default photo, favorite movies or music) for each site where a user spends time, now a user can update their profile in one place and dynamically share that information with the other sites they care about. MySpace will be rolling out a centralized location within the site that allows users to manage how their content and data is made available to third party sites they have chosen to engage with.
The Art of Making Sense
1 May – 1 November 2008
Venue: The Cunningham Dax Collection
The Art of Making Sense is a new exhibition which takes a uniquely critical approach to the display of creative works by people who experience mental illness and/or psychological trauma. The exhibition moves beyond an emphasis on clinical or aesthetic aspects, to highlight the multifaceted nature of the works, including psychological, historical, aesthetic, cultural and biographical aspects.
Over seventy creative works have been selected from the Collection including paintings, drawings, collages, textiles and sculptures, dating from the 1950s to recent acquisitions. In addition, historic photographs, archival documents and other writings provide a glimpse into daily life in a Victorian asylum.
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY: PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Commencing in May, the Collection is excited to present a fantastic series of public programs to accompany the new exhibition, The Art of Making Sense. Don’t miss the opportunity to hear some interesting speakers discussing diverse topics in the fields of art, history, mental health, ethics and the psyche.
6pm Thursday 29 May
Making Sense of Context
Anthony Fitzpatrick and Glen Barkley
THE CUNNINGHAM DAX COLLECTION
Open: Wed, Thurs, Fri 10am to 4pm, Sat, 1 to 5pm
35 Poplar Road Parkville Victoria 3052
t 61 3 9342 2394 fax 61 3 9381 2008
www.daxcollection.org.au
Undue Noise Collective
*gold rural experimentalists*
Tuesday 13 May 6-9pm
Pit Theatre, Footscray Arts
] Free entry _ & refreshments & a bite [
Hailing from the central Victorian goldfields, the three sound and video artists of the Undue Noise collective will perform using a diverse array of audio-visual devices. Expect vacuum cleaner MIDI Interfaces, digital video and Max/MSP
programming.
http://cajid.com/undue/
http://www.myspace.com/bendigounduenoise
Footscray Arts is located on the Maribyrnong river bicycle path, which crosses the Footscray Road bicycle path from the Melbourne city.
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At a kickoff event for collaboration between IBM and the University of Southern California to explore the intersection of creative arts and science and technology, five IBM scientists offered their best guesses on how life would be different in 2050.
In keeping with the Hollywood theme, the moderator of the panel, Bill Pulleyblank, noted that the Mini Cooper automobile has more computing power than Apollo 13–the space capsule that “almost got Tom Hanks killed,” he said, referring to the 1995 movie of that name.
Pulleybank led the development of IBM’s Blue Gene systems, which account for 4 of the world’s top 10 most powerful supercomputers. By 2050, he predicted, the capabilities housed in those giant supercomputers will be available in the palm of your hand.
Sharon Nunes, who leads IBM’s green-research initiatives, launched IBM’s Computational Biology Center. She predicted that by 2050, clean water and energy would be available to the entire planet.
Nunes is looking to synthetic biology and systems biology to help solve the critical problems the planet faces. “We have to try to learn from nature and the 4-plus billion years of knowledge,” she said.
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