Tangents on Blackdog, innovations, idea markets
Chris Double's weblog is mostly about a few interesting
programming languages, including Factor and Erlang, and
frequently about implementations of those on smaller
devices. He recently moved it to
http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/ .
A recent
entry included a mention of
project blackdog, a cool linux-on-a-USB handheld computer.
That led to a
review of Blackdog by
Mickaël Rémond
(whose non-ASCII characters confuse vi on Mac OS X at the moment)
on his
"3pBlog" ("Performance, Process, Parallelism")
(and other Projects).
A previous
entry there pointed to
Boris Mann's suggestion
that XMPP (Jabber's protocol) would be a good base upon which
to build a peer-to-peer social network.
On a different tangent,
Dave Pollard's
page of links for the week had a few gems:
- Insider Pages,
a peer-to-peer sort of consumer reeports / BBB / yellow pages site;
- links to a couple of folks who write about innovation --
Umair Haque
and Paul Schumann.
Nice phrases in those URLs -- "Bubble Generation" and "Innovation Commons".
That last notion, "Innovation Commons", reminded me that I had seen
something this week about prediction markets. I wrote
a weblog entry or
two
about those and futurists in general, about a year and a half ago.
It's nice to see that there is now a
reasonable Wikipedia article about them.
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