Thursday, February 06, 2003

Stay Tuned Whiteboard drawing of NewTool - an open source platform for Free Media and Microcontent + (universal) personal proxy/server + authoring and replication A sampling of references/influences/thought-starters for those interested in talking about this: Marc Canter: Marc is all over Free Media Management (née Open Media Management) - Free Media Management, Virtual File mngt vs generic Media Management, Jon hits a home run! (identity issues), Intro to an Open Standards Architecture Les Orchard of 0xDECAFBAD: PersonalWebProxy IBM Research: Web Intermediaries (WBI) - "Intermediaries create smart pipes" (they've got a whiteboard picture, too, and also prettier pictures showing the architecture and some scenarios) Abe Fettig: HEP Message Server Yutaka Sato: DeleGate: an application-level gateway/proxy with "transcoding" capabilities and origin (client) capabilities - see DeleGate: A Universal Application Level Gateway The Intelligent Software Agents Lab: WebMate from Carnegie Mellon ("a personal digital assistant, is a promising solution to the problem of finding useful information among a sea of texts and other web documents") Matt Griffith: Jog, the personal Google & Wayback Machine P.A.W. @ SourceForge: The Pro-Active Webfilter is a filtering HTTP proxy based on Sun's Brazil framework Phil Wolff of a klog apart: Comments on microcontent and converged clients in From .blog to converged client Anil Dash: Introducing the Microcontent Client Sébastien Paquet: Part 2 of Personal knowledge publishing and its uses in research (here is Part 1) OSAF: Chandler, of course... Eastgate Systems Inc.: Storyspace The SpaceMapper Project: MN8 and DataStore KnownSpace: KnownSpace Helium evectors: RssDistiller Ticluse Teknologi: The Snewp D. J. Adams: Tinkering with RSS and NNTP (Adams is also the author of Programming Jabber - I've got my copy and Jabber is in the tool...) 3:03:18 PM    comment []