It’s easy to forget that man doesn’t have a monopoly on massive construction projects. Colonies of ants have evolved to construct extraordinary shelters for defense and reproduction. On scale, these construction projects mimic our own cities with functioning highways, fungus gardens, rubbish pits, and proper ventilation.
Tag: distributed design
How Money Shapes the future of the Web
Connected Canvas, Adaptive Web Portals to Unlimited Information
Not long back I wrote about malleable web surfaces and the browser plugin Stylish for customizing stylesheets. The example I shared was a retro modification of the twitter web UI with a larger content area and narrower sidebar. Since that time I couldn’t put the idea of personal HTML data views down. Web data that is openly shared suffers a restriction on how it’s composed that is easily remedied with adaptive web portals.
Safe Guarding Future Web Evolution
The web and the underlying connected internet are two of the most socially revolutionary technologies in existence today. While reading Tim Berners-Lee long form article this morning Long Live the Web, several themes resonated with my own perspective on what makes the web such an incredibly rich source of information. He discusses a few key design principles that make the web a potent communication and documentation medium (emphasis mine). (more…)
Centralized versus Distributed Web
Founder of SocialToo Jesse Stay says the web is no longer open. He states that only a few large entities own the flow of information through both social and searchable web. DeWitt Clinton a Google software engineer responded with an eloquent description of what open means to him, and how even small budget businesses could construct a highly functional search engine (I keep bugging DeWitt and others about open semantic processing tools and interfaces).