“In this space both digital and analog media offered visitors multiple ways to access information”, from http://bit.ly/xKRJq (photo from SFMOMA)
After our shiny new server got delivered earlier this week i spent today fine tuning the settings so we can fully enjoy the awesome power this gives our website. With that done there was basically nothing keeping us from opening up the site to the public anymore.
So starting NOW you no longer need an invite to be able to create your own NARB account! If you register today you can start posting comments, rating art and (much appreciated) sending us suggestions for new venues or exhibitions to add right away.
Keep in mind that we ARE still in beta so while we can handle thousands of visitors comfortably were definitely not done building out our feature set yet. You can always let us know what you think should work differently or what your still missing on our support forum.
Our first real test will still be the Rotterdam Museumnacht saturday next week of course when 15.000 museumnacht visitors will potentially take a peek at our site. You can still win a free ticket for this event if you become a Facebook fan. We’ll draw a lucky winner this wednesday (march 4th).
Andy Warhol TV via the cool people in Geneva called Vernissage TV who cover art events and commentary on camera. (I love the way she pronounces “Warhol”;)
We’re slowly rolling towards our launch and it was one of those art opening nights in Amsterdam. I passed by Ron Mandos and others and had some great discussions with strangers. We talked about the accessibility of contemporary art to people in general. Particularly what they would understand when looking at such a work without knowing all the references of meaning. I also let a few galleries in on Narb(that we exist, would like digital copies of art works and just wanna say hi!). I wonder if it’s gonna scare them or make them excited?
Great work by Massimo, Alexandra, Nick and Tinker.it with staff of Arizona Science Center. This shows what you get when you create a framework for physical spaces and then combine it with an iPhone and electronics like Arduino.
Tijs getting the bar-code reader to interface with his Mac. It’s all part of an installation by artist Willem Besselink for Museum Night Rotterdam. This a pretty retro way of measuring crowd numbers at over 30 different locations, but it’s fun, like Starbuck and Apollo in the original BSG!
Nice job by Allegra Burnette and MoMA for their new generation of audio tours over iTunes and iPhone
The problem with rating systems in general is that only people who feel very strongly about something will take the time to rate it. For a five star scale, that suggests mostly one and five star ratings.
This is why most iPhone apps will have a three star rating. A lower quality app will tend to have about 2.5 stars, and a higher quality app will tend to have about 3.5.
As soon as an app has been rated more than once, it becomes mathematically very unlikely that it will ever see a 1 or 5 star overall rating again. So, it’s nearly pointless to have scales of 5 stars, 10 stars, or 100 stars, when all you really need is: “Liked it, Didn’t Like It, and Neutral”.
Post beta-test#2 at Annet Gelink Gallery in Amsterdam, Daniel, Adrien and others convincingly tell Tijs and I that Narb iphone app has to be more like Lily Allen’s dress in “The Fear”. We concur.
