Bindows Blog

BeDesk Social Desktop (OpenSource) – Powered by Bindows0
Ran posted in Bindows Clients, Collective Intelligence, Developing in Bindows on November 23rd, 2007

Oh!STUDIO Media Solutions (our Bindows partner in Argentina) created BeDesk, an open source project of a social desktop powered by Bindows.

The vision is creating a global cross-device interface using the Bindows framework.

The project mission is to develop interfaces, using the most powerful APIs, and integrating them in a multiple windows environment – providing users with the best functionalities in the Internet.

Those interfaces will be service oriented for collaborative use across BeDesk desktops (webtops actually)

Visit http://code.google.com/p/bedesk to download the code and access the Trunk, and join the group in http://groups.google.com/group/bedesk.

Dion HinchCliffe’s Great Posts0
Jo posted in Collective Intelligence, Disruptive tech on January 26th, 2006

Dion HinchCliffe has some great posts recently. And we say that, not just because he described the Bindows library as “mindblowing”. “Thanks Dion!!!â€? We thought he provided a great summary of Ajax’s disruptive influences:
1. The End of Software Upgrades, Fixes, and Security Patches
2. Software and Data Available Wherever You Go:
3. Isolated Software Can’t Compete with Connected Software
4. Deprecation of the Traditional Operating System
5. Software That Is Invisible

We were also impressed with his Five Great Ways to Harness Collective Intelligence

1. Be The Hub of A Hard To Recreate Data Source
2. Seek Collective Intelligence Out
3. Trigger Large-Scale Network Effects
4. Provide A Folksonomy
5. Create a Reverse Intelligence Filter

Finally, he provides a great link to one of the best written articles on Web 2.0 - The Hype and Hullabaloo of Web 2.0 by Ellyssa Kroski