Eric Wahlforss is one of the guys behind SoundCloud. This is where he jots down thoughts on the web, music and strategy, among other things.
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Onelinr
I put together a small piece of “ConferenceWare” that I call Onelinr for a course in school. I got the basic idea from scene parties in the old days where an old computer with a big, green-black CRT screen was sometimes set up so that anyone could stop by and type in an anonymous “oneliner”, usually to comment on the event and on the people attending it. I remember reading some of these oneliners late at night with great amusement–the concept worked really well.
It’s now been more than ten years since I last saw one of these setups and so I thought why not make a site that lets anyone start a collaborative oneliner channel for any occasion, be it a conference, club, panel… or demo party. As I’ve concluded earlier, backchannels are everywhere these days, but we are still only beginning to understand their place in our future lives…
So, why not go ahead and contribute with a oneliner!
April 8th, 2007 at 9:24 am
very nice indeed.
excellent work!
April 8th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
pretty cool!
April 10th, 2007 at 9:16 am
[...] mißverstanden, (und reflexartig meinen dings gekrallt habe,) wurde mir jetzt nach der Lektüre von Erics Ankündigung klar was gemeint ist. Da habe ich das mal für die re:publica [...]
April 10th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
[...] be one of the coolest things I have come across recently. The man behind it is Eric Wahlforss who, along with Alexander Ljung, will be speaking at Hej!2007 about trust issues in the new web. [...]
April 10th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
[...] har gjort ett litet chat-verktyg för konferenser, small-talk och nattsudd. Gå till Onelinr och skapa ditt eget onelinrforum. Från [...]
April 17th, 2007 at 11:29 pm
[...] And Firefox suddenly has a close to 25% user base in Europe (with 41.3% in Finland!). And my little Onelinr app unexpectedly took off and now holds over 2100 oneliners, and hosts multiple backchannels for a few [...]
April 18th, 2007 at 7:04 am
cool.. but you should really limit to one “oneliner” per ip address, instead of letting people submit multiple entries. that way one person couldn’t enter 5 bad ones in a row, and you’d see a more interesting collection of oneliners. -gmc
April 18th, 2007 at 7:43 am
Good idea. I’m thinking about ways of moderating channels also.
April 23rd, 2007 at 1:27 am
[...] a short plug here.. if you’re really into quick backchannels, check out Onelinr.com created by Eric Wahlforss. As above, we used it as one of the backchannels during Hej! 2007 and the activity [...]
April 25th, 2007 at 7:34 pm
[...] på och leker/läser lite om en ny sida just nu. Onelinr som är gjord av Eric Wahlforss och användes tydligen flitigt på Hej! [...]
May 9th, 2007 at 11:34 am
[...] Eric himself calls it “ConferenceWare”. Here you can read more about the background for Onelinr. The key word is simplicity; it takes about one second to start your own backchanel and start [...]