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Joost—free TV with a peer-to-peer community


From http://www.joost.com/about.html:

:What’s Joost? It’s free TV, with the choice to watch alone or with friends. Joost is packed with internet tools such as instant messaging and channel chat, allowing people to really share the TV experience.

:It’s a completely secure platform for content owners that respects their rights, while protecting and enhancing their brands. And it’s an incredibly flexible way for advertisers to reach a truly global audience, in ways that really work. Joost isn’t just video on the internet – it’s the next generation of television for viewers, content owners and advertisers everywhere.

Grown from a handful of people in a small office outside Amsterdam. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklas_Zennström Niklas Zennstrøm] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus_Friis Janus Friis]—KaZaa, Skype. Peer-to-peer. Community. Promising. I wish them a lot of succes!

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english peer-to-peer smart software Tools

TextBender—Web 3.0 distributed Wiki-like text writing

Interesting new way of distributed collaboration…

TextBender is a system of collaborative writing based on recombinant text,
textbender has these characteristics:

*Your text belongs to a population, one text per author.
*Quality bits of text are swapped among authors, peer to peer.
*Individual authorship is retained and traceable throughout.

Textbender is currently ”’aimed at creative writing”’, particularly at short verse. A demonstration is being prepared.

Recombinant text is a medium of collaborative design and composition, with a basis in biological theory. In computer science, it belongs to the subfield of human-based genetic algorithms. In biological terms, it is analogous to population genetic engineering; but with populations that consist of texts.

The texts are Web documents. Intercommunication is by Web protocols, and the result is the collaborative production of Web content. Recombinant text is therefore ”’comparable to a Wiki”’. But it differs in its distributed architecture and ”’peer-to-peer communication pattern”’ (populations), ”’formalized data units”’ (genes), and ”’semantic labels”’ (loci). These place it in the arena of Web 3.0.

Several design approaches to recombinant text have been investigated to date. The ultimate approach (below top) would rely on a mechanism of gene complexing to transfer variations of plot, character, and other patterns from text to text. This approach would have a range of groupware applications in general design, as well as literary and musical composition. It would also be difficult to realize, and remains a vision for the future.

[http://zelea.com/project/textbender/ Read more on TextBender] or [http://zelea.com/var/cache/textbender-demo/textbender/a/b/demo/instructions.xht try the TextBender demo].

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Twitter


‘k Zag bij Hans van Mestrum dat hij zijn Twitter account heeft geclaimd. Goed voorbeeld doet volgen en dus: Martien twittert mee…

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community smart software Tools

Digitale LEGO®: moeiteloos doorlopend actueel

Digitale LEGO® moeiteloos doorlopend actueel zonder handmatig onderhoud via mashups”’.

[http://google.com/ Google], [http://ebay.com/ eBay], [http://amazon.com/ Amazon], [http://youtube.com/ YouTube], [http://last.fm Last.fm] en [http://yahoo.com Yahoo] geven externe programmeurs toegang tot delen van hun kernsoftware via zogeheten [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API API]s: technische bruggetjes.

Zo ontstaat een nieuw web van zogenaamde mashups. Kortom, API + API = [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashup_%28web_application_hybrid%29 mashup]. Ook bekend als ”'[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_as_a_Service SAAS—Software As A Service]”’.

[http://www.ning.com/ Ning.com], [http://www.openkapow.com/ OpenKapow.com] en [http://pipes.yahoo.com/ Yahoo Pipes] vereenvoudigen verder de groei van mashups. Koppel dit aan open source tools zoals [http://mediawiki.org/ MediaWiki] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki wiki]) en [http://wordpres.org/ WordPress] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog blog]) en je krijgt een uitermate rijke voedingsbodem.

Ideaal voor [http://nnn.aardbron.nl/ inititatieven zoals NNN].

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NNN Concept

[http://wiki.aardrock.com/images/4/44/NNN-Concept.pdf ]

Een voorlopig concept voor de werking en functionaliteit van NNN. Alles op één A4-tje. Bespreken we met de kernkring op vrijdag 23 maart in Haarlem.

”’Klik op het plaatje voor een hoog-resolutie PDF versie”’ (100 KB).

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Serious Games smart software Tools

Sun Finds a Home in Second Life

Very interesting move. Tuesday, October 11 2006, Sun Microsystems became the first Fortune 500 company to hold an ‘in-world‘ press conference to show off its new pavilion in Second Life, the popular 3D online world. Sun said it plans to invest in the Sun Pavilion as a place for developers to try out code, share ideas and receive training.

Read the full article on Internet News and check out Sun’s Presskit

Excellent way to involve community members into co-creating the future.

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chaordic smart software Tools

Reputation system for Wikipedia

In First Monday, Tom Cross writes about Wikipedia using a reputation system to create a moderator class which has the power to approve user submitted changes. A first experiment done by his MemeStreams, which in turn is powered by Industrial Memetics.