Apperception is the process
by which we connect what we perceive with what we have already
experienced.
Today, we record our experiences as digital content that we connect and
weave into stories about ourselves, our families, our work and our
dreams
The content we produce stands in for us when we are not present and
serves to build a connection with others over space and time. Whether
it be a simple note, weblog, photographic image or a music video, the content we
create summarizes our experiences and cognitions for others.
At Apperceive, we strive to apply new technologies and ideas to making
these connections between our knowledge and vision, as well as with
each other. This is the motivation for the open-source applications,
content and services that we build.
It is not easy to lay out a development plan for how to best integrate
new, and rapidly changing, technologies into existing products.
Apperceive, does this by utilizing agile and extreme development
techniques for rapid adoption of new and existing open architecture and
open source products and services.
Like all explorers before us, we cannot always predict what lies ahead;
but we are experienced at sailing into uncharted waters and
establishing a beach-head for those who follow. We bravely go where no
app has gone before.
With apperception, comes expression and art.
Apperceive, Inc. is not a private service provider and does not seek or
commit to specific development projects and deadlines. Instead, we are
more like a think tank or studio with regular publications, events and
presentations of results. All of our work artifacts are open-sourced
and licensed under the Creative Commons as "Attribution-ShareAlike". Our sponsors, as well as others, are free to utilize or derive from our
work. This includes code, media and web content.
Of course, our sponsors are typically the first to leverage the fruit
of our labors as they have both participated in the work, as well as
the presentation of the results.
We collaborate with other organizations to set up environments for
mutual growth. By funding and participating in Apperceive project
activities, sponsors can foster development of the specific web related
services and content that is useful to them. While we do not wish to
become an advertising forum, we proudly display the logos of our
sponsors on appropriate websites and feature them prominently in our
weblog postings and articles. We work with sponsors to establish
project related memes and to create buzz around our collaborative
efforts.
We measure our work by the number of people who utilize the content,
applications and services that we produce. Sponsors measure us by the
ROI they get from utilizing our results and participating in our
projects.
These are some of the things Apperceive is interested in doing:
- producing weblogs
- developing web services
- participating in
open-source projects
- working with online
communities
- creating digital media
research centers
- architecting online
events
- writing articles and
reports
- creating digital media
content
- participating at
conferences
We are considering spinning
off or creating several new weblogs and enhancing the existing ones:
- apperceptions
- mobile applications
(new)
- aggregation/filtering
(app.etitio.us)
- ia tonight (with
ourmedia tonight?)
- web 2.0 (new or
existing)
- ojai sights &
sounds (new)
- comedy (we are
currently making a mash/mix of marc cantor)
We wish to publish several
blog article series:
- moving digital media
(Spin, FTP, etc)
- tutorials for web 2.0
(flickr, DLA, Spin, etc)
- the well dressed net
socialite (social networking, digital presence, buzz)
- profile "unsung heroes"
of the web (example: webjay cromegat)
- blog reviews (audio,
video, other)
- digital urban planning
with web 2.0
We are considering the
creation of several web-based directories:
- media playlists
- audio blogs
- video blogs
- web 2.0
- events
We wish to pursue the development of open source
services and applications in the following areas:
- digital aggregation -
content and digest aggregation for use in personal publishing,
integration and interoperability of digital services and applications
- content filtering -
newsfeed and data stream filtering of digests and content into
pre-defined and dynamic contexts
- distributed media -
newsfeeds and podcasting to F&F or business
- searching tagged data -
applying social tagging to business, automatic contextual tagging
- secure communities -
private and business blogging and wikis, portfolios, digital
marketplaces and supply chains
I’m too stoked. Chris Ritke was kind enough to ask me for an interview for his podcasts. I had too much fun and it’s now on the 49Media.com.
"Chris speaks with Markus Sandy about Spinflow.org, video blogging, vlogifying people and organizations, Podcast Hotel, Spincasting, videoblogging street teams, Blogher & a Spinflow sponsored west coast vlogger meetup, SpinXpress and more."