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Nat Demos Dashboard

Posted by michael on from the test-drive dept.

pheared writes "Nat Friedman from Ximian gave a fairly in depth, quite hilarious (got embarrassing screensaver?), and somewhat impromptu, talk about his project "Dashboard" at OLS. From his blog: "The dashboard is a piece of software which performs a continous, automatic search of your personal information space to show you things in your life that are related to whatever you happen to be doing with your computer at the time." Neat stuff, but I don't think I will be warming up to Mono and C# any time soon."

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  1. Personal Information Space? by heironymouscoward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are you taking the PIS? Uhm... "my PIS is full. I can't find my PIS."

    I think we need another term. Unfortunately my PIS seems to have crashed so I can't search for one.

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  2. Re:Unnecessary commentary? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ahahaha. Yes, just as SCO were concerned about their IPR three years ago, when Project Monteray collapsed on them. Just as Unisys made it clear right from the start that they wanted royalties for LZW in GIF. Yeah, I'm sure they would have done something by now. Thats right. Microsoft would never wait until a developer base had grown around C# among FOSS developers and then pull the rug out from under them and leave them with no choice but to switch to Microsoft .NET No, they'd never do exactly the same thing as they've done to countless others before, for example OS/2. No. Never.

    Pull my head out indeed.

  3. Screenshots by Sibeling · · Score: 5, Informative

    Besides one screenshot in the link, which is going slow..

    Here's one using sniffed rss traffic

    and here's one with geo traffic.. (cool) There's a bit more info here

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  4. I was at the demo... by Ron+Harwood · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...and yes, I think you will find it useful.

    Seriously, there will be a signal to noise ratio to begin with... but the concept of related information - it's like if someone did "pop up videos" information blurbs for all your computing needs...

    So until you can start adding extra memory units to your brain - something like this may prove itself very useful indeed.

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