Category Archives: smart software

Smart software that folds around human needs rather than the other way ’round.

Peer-to-Peer Foundation Nederland Founding Members

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 … Continue reading

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Levitated | the Exploration of Computing

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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Look what they do with P2P worms

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. … Continue reading

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SixApart: Opening the Social Graph

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 … Continue reading

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SwarmOS Demonstrated at Idea Festival

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 … Continue reading

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Groovy Actors

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 … Continue reading

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Erlang distributed concurrent programming

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 … Continue reading

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LiveJournal Creator Maps the Long Road to Open Social Networks

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 … Continue reading

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The Future of Bridges: Self-Replicating, Irregular Designs

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 … Continue reading

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The coolest new feature on BookTour: Auto-favorites

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 … Continue reading

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Briljante Programmeurs Netwerk

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 … Continue reading

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Brad Neuberg on Inventing with Values

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 … Continue reading

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Aarde tag cloud

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 … Continue reading

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The long tail of software

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