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Location Oriented Software Development

Monday, August 27th, 2007

Another emerging practical use of the meshverse:
World View provides a location-oriented view of a software development project. It is built on Google Maps, and allows project managers and developers to see the inter-team relationships in a global project. A particular focus, again, is on visualizing conflicts, though future work includes other kinds of dependencies.
Side-by-Side [...]

African Infrastructure Opportunities

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

A NY Times article last month points out a crisis of planetary proportions whose implications are staggering. Highlights are mine.
A lack of infrastructure is the biggest problem. In many countries, communications networks were destroyed during years of civil conflict, and continuing political instability deters governments or companies from investing in new systems. E-mail messages [...]

Next Generation Avatars & the Spook Country Event

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

 Links to pictures and video of the William Gibson book reading in Second Life are available at Penguin Books
… Audio was beamed in from the MDM campus in Vancouver to the riversrunred studios in London, and out to Second Life. What made me happy about this event was that it gave people from all over [...]

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