Hydra rocks!. Hydra and Social Invention. One of the moments I love best is when a group, given a piece of software, uses it in a way that is simultaneously so novel and so good that the pattern becomes worth codifying. This is now happening with Hydra, the "7 brains are smarter than one" text editor that has been likened to an IM Wiki. (Mac only, alas.)
At OSCON in Portland (at which I am not, alas), the soi-disant Semi-Unofficial OSCON Wiki is hosting a Hydra template for group note-taking, using the pattern that grew spontaneously at ETCon and was codified by Tom "The Internet is not Shit" Coates. And though the original Hydra use case was programmers collaborating remotely, the Hydra site itself now points to a similar template for the Apple WWDC, meaning that the software designers have taken note of the user innovation.
Watch for later releases of Hydra to include features designed specifically for real-time note-taking by the Wifi-tribe. I haven't talked to the Hydra designers, but I'm willing to bet that this will become an example of social innovation that gets instantiated in code. [Corante: Social Software]
I really dig Hydra. Needless to say it's about the faces! We gotta get that feature into the WebOutliner. [Marc's Voice]
I tried Hydra and it does rock, unfortunately we are a Windows environment. We are finding more and more reasons to want Macs as personal computers even though we are forced to develop on PCs.
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