POV-Ray : Newsgroups : irtc.general : Discover more to... IRTC and Cooliris : Re: Discover more to... IRTC and Cooliris Server Time
1 Jun 2024 08:11:17 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Discover more to... IRTC and Cooliris  
From: Carlo C 
Date: 20 Apr 2009 03:40:00
Message: <web.49ec26bf5f097aefdf44ecbb0@news.povray.org>
"gregjohn" <pte### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> "Carlo C." <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> >
> > My intention was to give a sprinkling of web2.0 to IRTC.
> > My intention was to try *personal pleasure*(1) (perhaps amusement) to view
> > images with Cooliris.
> >
>
> The one thing I'd strongly object to here is the use of "web 2.0" to mean
> splashy bells and whistles and use of Flash.  Flickr could possibly be said to
> be the first Web 2.0 site, at least in its first implementation.  Back when you
> could "Blog This!" on a photo without worrying about getting sued, Flickr was
> about user-generation and SHARING of content.  (Ham-fisted professional
> photographers later invaded and sort of ruined the whole 2.0 thing.)
>
> Making raytracing "Web 2.0" would have more to do with sharing of include files
> like the povlib.

I deny what I wrote before.
I have already disillusioned with Cooliris. ;-)
I think the important thing is the return of IRTC, in any form.
.... And the silence of David Buck worries me.

--
Carlo


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