Fri 20 Jan 2006
I want to insert a plug for an exciting project I'm working on called Mycroft. It's still in the very early stages, but we've got an extremely alpha prototype up, and some web content (quickly evolving). Check us out at mycroftnetwork.com. Very soon you'll also see the prototype appearing on these blog pages as well.
I'll be posting more about this project (probably a lot more) in the coming weeks and months. What I love about it is that it's a wonderful synthesis of the technical and the sociocultural. It's a research platform and a practical tool, and I get to do design and coding as well as anthropological fieldwork. You'll get the gist from the site, but I'll be interested in starting some discussion about the specific sociocultural issues later on. In the meantime feel free to post comments here, or email the team at mycroftnetwork@gmail.com.
I love the mycroft guys. Especially the tall curly-haired one with the glasses who wears that "code poet" shirt all the time.
[...] tomers, but it's particularly relvent in the context of the Mycroft Project, which I previously blogged about. Mycroft is off to an amazing start, and thus far we've been [...]
[...] I've blogged in the past about the Mycroft Project that I have been working on for several months now. Unfortunately, our website is down right now so the link won't do you any good, but still, mycroftnetwork.com. [...]
[...] The Mycroft Project (which I blogged about previously) is moving along nicely. This week we're rolling out our website and a prototype of the banner that we hope will someday be on thousands of websites as a replacement for web ads. It looks like this: [...]
[...] The Mycroft Project (which I blogged about previously) is moving along nicely. This week we're rolling out our website and a prototype of the banner that we hope will someday be on thousands of websites as a replacement for web ads. It looks like this: [...]
[...] Coase's Pengiun is the theoretical foundation, really, of Mycroft, which is all about massively distributed peer production. (See other posts on my blog here and here, as well as coverage from the Institute for the Future) We, like, Benkler, see the potential lying dormant in the minds and hearts of millions of people, especially in the long tail, who only need a means to communicate and collaborate. Hopefully Mycroft will be that way. [...]