Posted in aarde, chaorganization, community, crowd sourcing, dutch, family, holacracy, levenskunst, money, network, open source, pareltaal, peer-to-peer, smart software on Nov 6th, 2007
Het was een goede ont-moeting gisteravond in Amsterdam met de activisten van de Peer-to-Peer Foundation Nederland: James Burke (freelance software ontwikkelaar), Bas Reus (informatiekundige bij Favela Fabric en Marijn van der Pas (jouranlist bij het ANP.
Heerlijk gegeten bij Bird Thais aan de Zeedijk. We moesten een kwartier wachten op een tafel. Op maandagavond! We kregen [...]
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Stumbled across a wonderful website yesterday with a lot of awseome and open source Flash applications that produce wonderful graphics, many of them fractal, complex. Check out Levitated.net—a friendly company.
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Martijn van Steenbergen tipped me on The Storm Worm:
Some key points:
Storm is designed like an ant colony
Rather than having all hosts communicate to a central server or set of servers, Storm uses a peer-to-peer network for C2.
And even if a C2 node is taken down, the system doesn’t suffer. Like a hydra with many heads, [...]
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SixApart: Opening the Social Graph:
We think that the best way for you to manage your network is to stop thinking about all of the little pieces and to start focusing on the big picture: you and the people who matter to you. We think relationships mean more than email addresses or which service you’re signed [...]
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SwarmOS Demonstrated at Idea Festival: “PacoCheezdom writes ‘Intelligent Life has short summary of a demonstration by MIT professor James McLurkin of his new group-minded robots, which run an operating system called ‘Swarm OS’.
The robots are able to work together as a group not by communicating with all members of the group at once, but by [...]
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Refreshed my link with Gerald “tensegrity” de Jong, triggered by a blog entry from TED titled Creatures on the beach from the Dutch sculptor Theo Jansen which instantly reminded me of Gerald’s Fluidiom and Darwin at Home projects.
Gerald’s email signature also mentioned Groovy Actors:
In a nutshell it’s a natural next step, building further on object-oriented [...]
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A new programming language? Well, at least one I never heard of until today. It’s called Erlang and one of the interesting aspects are that it eases concurrent programming and distributed processes.
Erlang is a programming language designed at the Ericsson Computer Science Laboratory. Open-source Erlang is being released to help encourage the spread of Erlang [...]
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LiveJournal Creator Maps the Long Road to Open Social Networks: “People are growing weary of registering and re-declaring their friends on every new social networking site. But Brad Fitzpatrick, creator of LiveJournal and OpenID, says that the tools to build a decentralized social network don’t yet exist. (Source: Wired)
Wow. About time. Since long I cherish [...]
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Harry van der Velde will like this one…
The Future of Bridges: Self-Replicating, Irregular Designs: “Self-replicating bridges might be more robust, but also weirder looking, than the nearly magical pieces of civil engineering that human beings come up with.
(Via Wired News.)
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Posted in book, english, music, smart software on Aug 8th, 2007
The coolest new feature on BookTour: Auto-favorites:
Like any other startup, we’ve adding new feature nearly every day on BookTour. But my favorite is one that we added last week. You know the music services, such as Sonic Living, that’can scan your iTunes or LastFM’libraries and then automatically tell you (via emails or RSS feeds) when’your [...]
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Posted in agile, chaordic, chaorganization, community, computing, conscious computing, consciousness, creative, crowd sourcing, english, holacracy, innovation, open source, smart software on Jul 9th, 2007
Sanne Roemen en Daan Kortenbach doen een oproep om een coöp van briljante programmeurs op te zetten. Wat mij betreft breiden ze dat uit naar briljante ontwerpers, designers, architecten en projectleiders. En dan lekker agile aan de slag.
Als we dat nou eens naadloos kunnen samenvoegen met grote bedrijven op dit gebied. Een organisatievorm vinden waarbij [...]
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Verbatim copy of EEK’s blog entry. Thanks EEK, for sharing this.
Brad Neuberg on Inventing with Values:
A few months ago, my friend, BradNeuberg, gave the keynote at Yahoo’s internal Front-End Engineering Summit. The video is now online, and it’s worth watching. Brad’s not only a great guy and a great hacker, he’s an excellent speaker. [...]
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Using ScriptCloud’s output, I created a tag cloud for the text in the Aarde Vision Bus Tour. Had to fiddle around with the style sheet a bit. The links do nothing, though. Here it is…
aims architects architecture billions blogs blossoms broadcasted buzzing challenges collaborate combining cooperate ecology economic economy education emerge enterprises enters environmental etc [...]
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Posted in english, smart software on Jun 28th, 2007