http://www.meshverse.com Node 0 - People, Places, Things and Events Converging Electronically Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:51:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en John Robb of Global Guerrillas has put his finger on the power of the emerging sensor cloud as well as the powerful evolving trends in personal fabrication but he doesn't tie them together via their Chinese connection. Here on the MJ, these all converge in the coming boom and ... http://www.meshverse.com/2008/06/19/sensing-the-coming-boom/ As hinted at on the Node 3 page, Node 0 is being reactivated. Since the birth of the new Meshverse Journal, posts here at http://meshverse.wordpress.com automatically show up at Node 1 via RSS. Now, using the power of Chickenfoot, posts are replicated on Node 0 as well. Eventually the ... http://www.meshverse.com/2008/04/02/chickenfoot-mesh-reactivating-node-0/ This blog, now known as Node 0 of The Meshverse Journal has spawned two new operational nodes. Until further notice, no new content will appear here - read the details at Node 3. You are also welcome to join the social network at Node 1. http://www.meshverse.com/2008/03/01/stop-the-presses-shift-to-node-3/ As reported last year on the MJ in Getting Inside the Simulation, 3D camera driven interfaces are already available. What Kapor is talking about is widespread adoption "Look at Minority Report," Kapor said. "I'm here to say that (technology is) going to be real in the next (few) years."In fact, ... http://www.meshverse.com/2008/02/15/mitch-kapor-minority-report-interfaces-on-the-way/ Although it was acceptable at one time, most people know today that if a software system requires you to read 100's of pages of documentation, something is wrong. Similarly with the rules for the election system and likewise, when the rules says a pledge isn't binding, something is wrong.Obviously the ... http://www.meshverse.com/2008/02/10/pledge-meshwhy-a-brokered-democratic-convention-wont/ No that's not a typo and although few will actually get a 10,000% reduction, most Amazon SQS customers will probably see costs drop by 1000%. This is another very significant precursor to the coming boom. http://www.meshverse.com/2008/02/06/amazon-drops-message-service-pricing-10000/ The Second Life open source movement is producing tangible results: Out of the box, the OpenSim can be used to create a Second Life like environment, able to run in a standalone mode or connected to other OpenSim instances through built in grid technology. It can also easily be extended ... http://www.meshverse.com/2008/02/03/open-simulator/ Croquet 2 Play » Qwaq-SL Liaison http://www.meshverse.com/2008/02/03/croquet-second-life-people-meshing/ In 2002 a $2000 bet was made between blogging pioneer Dave Winer and Martin Nisenholtz of the NY Times that: “In a Google search of five keywords or phrases representing the top five news stories of 02007, weblogs will rank higher than the ‘New York Times‘ Web site”. The Long Now This ... http://www.meshverse.com/2008/02/02/no-surprise-blogs-trump-the-ny-times/ I'd heard of Current TV but hadn't seen their business model twist ... Their idea of a VCAM (Viewer Created Advertising Message) where their sponsors invite viewers to create and submit ads that pay$1k if they're aired and up to $60k if the advertiser uses the ad outside current TV, is ... http://www.meshverse.com/2008/02/02/viewer-created-advertising/