creator/founder of a new business entity (Start Up), probably initially a SmallCo (more)

Dan Bricklin on "Software that lasts 200 years (the Long Now)". Some interesting bits, and a good argument for Open Formats vs Dead Media, at least via data export (actually, export is not sufficient unless the standard procedure for "archiving" old records uses that export, rather than the native/binary format). I'm not quite clear on how this need differs from private-business software. And he seems to focus on the pure-custom vs packaged-software extremes (Custom Software vs Shrink Wrap), ignoring how much SmallCo activity there is in customized proprietary libraries (e.g. Accounting System-s), etc. (more)

Common Language Infrastructure for DotNet. (more)

City Simulation game built with Unity (more)

Urban Design Simulation (or Computer Game) (more)

Computer Game Platform used at Quest To Learn. (more)

Each of the 2 Barrington Il Middle School-s is picking a 7th-grade class to use for a One To One Lap Top pilot. It's their 21st century learning initiative C3 (Create, Collaborate, Communicate) (Educational Technology). Number One Son's class got picked! (more)

Web Browser-PlugIn-based Game Engine built on Unity (more)

Post Peak Living runs Conference Call-based courses on getting through the Long Emergency.

Meme from Michel Bauwens suggesting that, comparable to Peak Oil, we're at the High Water Mark for the Command And Control/BigWorld system. The future is the Network Economy. (more)

BeSpin was originally designed as a holistic Web application with front-end and back-end components that can be deployed on a server to create a Web-accessible programming environment, but the developers behind the project are increasingly focused on producing a stand-alone Text Editor component that can be used anywhere on the Web. In November, they released an early preview of a new embeddable version designed to be easy to integrate into existing Web applications... The Bespin editor has been reborn as a SproutCore component.

Steve Yegge thinks EMacs has to evolve to survive. He thinks that GUI IDE-s lack the self-hosting/reflexive property to make a good Platform/EcoSystem, so he doesn't think they're the primary competition. IDEs are draining users away, but it's not the classic fat-client IDEs that are ultimately going to kill Emacs. It's the browsers (Web Browser). They have all the power of a Fat Client Platform and all the flexibility of a dynamic system. I said earlier that FireFox wants to be Emacs. It should be obvious that Emacs also wants to be Firefox. Each has what the other lacks, and together they're pretty damn close to the ultimate software package... Emacs has to compete or die. If Firefox ever "tips" and achieves even a tenth of the out-of-the-box editing power of Emacs, not just for a specific application but for all web pages, widgets, text fields and system resources, Emacs is going to be toast. So he says EMacs needs to become a browser, need a new rendering engine, multi-language support, and ConCurrency support. And he thinks XEmacs, as a now-inferior fork (on the never-ReBoot criteria of 2007-01-20-YeggeGreatSoftwareSystems) should give up and merge back into GnuEmacs. (more)

Mozilla-based Text Editor (more)

Boo is an object oriented, statically typed programming language that seeks to make use of the Common Language Infrastructure's (CLI) support for UniCode, internationalization and web applications, while using a Python-inspired syntax[1] and a special focus on language and compiler extensibility. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boo_(programming_language) (more)

Bucky Fuller idea: connecting all the Energy (Electric Utility) power grids of the world together so that fluctuations in supply and demand could be matched. (esp as more power generated by Solar Power which obviously shifts with the rotation of the earth) (more)

Anil Dash wrote about his ideas for a "MicroContent client". The microcontent client is an extensible desktop application based around standard Internet protocols that leverages existing web technologies to find, navigate, collect, and author chunks of content for consumption. Similar to my Universal Inbox and Thinking Space ideas.... (more)

http://fusionanomaly.net/peterlambornwilson.html (more)

Science Blogs (owned by SEED) allowed scientists from Pepsi Co to write a blog on nutrition (Good Diet). (more)

Part of Dell Computer's plan for their Streak 5" Tablet is to target the HealthCare vertical. The Streak fits into a lab coat nicely, something that can’t be said for the IPad. But that’s not the real reason the Streak could be a healthcare hit. Dell is a major healthcare IT player via the acquisition of Perot Systems. Via Perot, now Dell Services, the company runs the infrastructure for 350 hospitals or so. Dell also knows the healthcare landscape—ranging from HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996) to smartphone guidelines from the Food and Drug Administration—and hosts applications and integrates healthcare systems. Simply put, the Streak could be a consumer flop (that’s yet to be determined) and still be a hit in healthcare. See also 2009-09-10-DellAndEmrPlayers.

Chris Dent on WikiNess (WikiWay). A wiki is a synthesis engine. A tool in a community. It allows an individual or group (usually smallish) to discover the gaps and connections in their understandings and then through exploration of the network and comparison of the nodes, fill in meaning. This means that the most important features in a wiki, for learning, are: Link As You Think, BackLinks, RecentChanges, and whatever you want to call what Tiddly Wiki reifies as “MissingPages”.