Monday, May 5, 2003

More on Social Software from Jonathan. Jonathan Peterson follows up on his blog entry about why social software is taking off: Cocooning, technology, commute times, and commodity McJobs all put tremendous isolationist pressures on individuals, anything that can lessen those pressures by enabling real, emotional, human, re-connection will thrive. I concur.... [Joho the Blog] 2:08:48 PM    comment []

The Social Software Dust-up. Stowe Boyd jumps into the "Is social software just hype" kerfuffle. So does Ross Mayfield. If nothing else, the brouhaha is prompting some good writing...... [Joho the Blog] 2:08:26 PM    comment []

GEOS lives... Breadbox Obtains Worldwide Exclusive Geos Rights from OSNews I was a big fan of GEOS on the Commodore 64. I beta tested several of their packages, including their GeoWrite, GeoCalc and a GeoBasic development IDE that never saw the light of day. On a 1 megahertz, 8-bit 6502 processor with 64 Kb of RAM, they had a GUI, WYSIWYG editors, scalable fonts, mouse, icons, PostScript output and more. With a souped-up system like mine (1 Mb RAM expander, low and *high-density* floppy drives, etc.), it was a slick system for office use and DTP. I've just had an inquiry from a 501(c)(3) charity with *no* money and 100 486s. I wonder if GEOS might be the solution for them... 8:26:31 AM    comment []

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