Johannes Ernst on September 28th, 2005

Let me try to answer his question to the Identity Gang here: Has Identity 2.0 got anything to say about this? Is the[re] some strategy where we can put a positive marker in our scribblings [all over the web] so that automated processes can find them all and bring them all back together? Identity 2.0 [...]

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Johannes Ernst on September 23rd, 2005

Just discovered Dave Winer‘s Outliners.com page, which has lots of screenshots and info on outliners, like MORE. MORE! I remember how devastated I was when I heard reports that Symantec (I think it was, right?) had decided to cease development of MORE. It was such a great program! (Although it never got its screen refreshes [...]

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Johannes Ernst on September 22nd, 2005

Originally, I was supposed to talk about LID at SD Forum today, but instead we moved it to October 27, because Ray Kurzweil is in town to speak about how we will all become immortal through technology. So I’m sitting at SAP Labs in Palo Alto instead, listening, being amazed, dazzled, inspired and I don’t [...]

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He quotes Darren Platt (unfortunately, he does not provide a link), who apparently said: …shorter assertion lifetimes will always prevail over longer assertion lifetime values, given the infrastructure to deal with them is in place. I very much agree. Which is why LID is an “on-line” system, built around light-weight on-line queries that can be [...]

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