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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …