Featured makers: York and Sophy

I have many reasons to introduce York Date and Sophy as the first featured makers on Thinglink.

On December 5th, 2005 York wrote me an email asking if he could use thinglinks for tagging his music. At that time we didn't have a database, only a rudimentary thinglinlink generator on thinglinks.com. But York and Sophy didn't mind. Instead, they explored the idea of thinglinks and demonstrated how thinglinks work on Google search. As soon as thinglink.org was published, York and Sophy became the first supporters of the project.

York is currently making his master's thesis about learning in online service development projects at the Graduate School of Business Administration at Kobe University, Japan. Together with Sophy he runs Art Recipes (see also art recipes on Flickr), a project that encourages people to document and share their personal process of artmaking.

Listen to a-hum.mp3 (thing:452XIT) by York and Sophy.

Photos: Yorkers&Hirosophy

Comments

[NikoN]

Is there a benefit for having the ThingLinks shown to readers, not just search engines? I mean, alphanumeric codes are not exactly great for readability.

[Ulla-Maaria]

We decided to show the code on the thing page because that's helpful if you are labeling your object with the thinglink or trying to locate a thinglink that is attached to a physical object (a CD cover, whatever).

It's possible to embed thinglinks in barcodes and RFIDs so maybe over time the code could be hidden.

[NikoN]

Sidetracking a bit, barcodes reminded me of this post on the S60 site: http://blogs.s60.com/tommi/2006/05/2d_barcodes_will_rule_the_eart.html#comments

[Bruce Sterling]

Hey, that "A-hum" piece isn't half bad!

impressed listener

[York]

Thank you very much for writing on us! Thinglink is a beautiful service, so we believe it will come a long way :)

[Welcome]

Wondefurl explanation of facts available here.

[Jetsin]

Never would have thunk I would find this so indisnpesable.