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Lets see what these guys say about our P2P CMS/PM app :-)
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* having seen the screenshots of the 3D world browser, looking beyond the cheesy atari-game-ness of the demos, it is clear that this capability should have some powerful potential for data visualization. I'm not sure that the best use of this capability will be navigation amongst avatars and e-toys -- at least, not for adult collaborators. I'm not even sure what gain in productivity would be achieved n browsing text pages in 3d perspective. Text pages are not even readable or meaningful until viewed squarely and close up. Nevertheless some ideas come to mind:
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** expansion of the desktop area - à la ''Minority Report'' and ''Avatar'' for manipulations, processing, procedures or operations using gestures, for example
Hi, I'm part of a development team who are helping an organisation to
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** an improvement over the hierarchical file system paradigm - some people have a memory "filing system" that is chronologically indexed ''(I know I received that letter mid-August last year)'' ; other people tend to index things spacially ''(last year's tax filing is in the third pile from the left on the middle shelf by the printer)''
architect a CMS based project that they want to work in a P2P network
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: I know that the world wide web structure is in fact 3d, although it is generally not represented geographically. But much data is powerful when visualised geographically.  
rather than using a centralised web-server.
 
  
We've researched existing CMS's such as Plone to see if they could be
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Have you thought of or learned about any other uses for this paradigm?
modified to operate on top of a DHT but found that they rely too
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:Our main vision for the 3D environment is the modern [[Geoscope]] --[[User:Nad|nad]] 11:27, 18 January 2011 (PST)
heavily on querying methodologies that are incompatible with the P2P
 
paradigm.
 
 
 
I realise that Cobalt is really intended as a virtual world system,
 
but it seems that it has a lot of the P2P applicational functionality
 
in place that could be developed to serve content to a local standard
 
browser.
 
 
 
We have a specific application in mind that we like to develop which
 
is a project-management/workflow environment running in a CMS with
 
some other standard tools such as wiki/blog, but rather than a
 
web-server we'd be using a local P2P app as the backend. I'm
 
wondering what you guys, the OpenCobalt developers, think of the
 
practicalities of this idea?
 
 
 
We have a good budget available for this and will be developing it as a
 
completely free open source component, so we'd also like to hear from
 
developers who may be interested in working on the project too.
 
 
 
Thanks a lot,
 
Aran
 
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Revision as of 19:31, 18 January 2011

  • having seen the screenshots of the 3D world browser, looking beyond the cheesy atari-game-ness of the demos, it is clear that this capability should have some powerful potential for data visualization. I'm not sure that the best use of this capability will be navigation amongst avatars and e-toys -- at least, not for adult collaborators. I'm not even sure what gain in productivity would be achieved n browsing text pages in 3d perspective. Text pages are not even readable or meaningful until viewed squarely and close up. Nevertheless some ideas come to mind:
    • expansion of the desktop area - à la Minority Report and Avatar for manipulations, processing, procedures or operations using gestures, for example
    • an improvement over the hierarchical file system paradigm - some people have a memory "filing system" that is chronologically indexed (I know I received that letter mid-August last year) ; other people tend to index things spacially (last year's tax filing is in the third pile from the left on the middle shelf by the printer)
I know that the world wide web structure is in fact 3d, although it is generally not represented geographically. But much data is powerful when visualised geographically.

Have you thought of or learned about any other uses for this paradigm?

Our main vision for the 3D environment is the modern Geoscope --nad 11:27, 18 January 2011 (PST)