Amazing collaborative text editor


SubEthaEdit

From the site:
With SubEthaEdit you can. The idea of collaborative editing has been researched for years, with notable results. But now for the first time it has been implemented in a way you actually want to use: A sophisticated technique allows all users to type anywhere in the text without locking parts of the text for other users, making SubEthaEdit just as easy to use as a traditional text editor

Rendezvous meet Java, Java meet Rendezvous

MacDevCenter.com: jRendezvous: Java and Rendezvous Working Together [Jul. 29, 2003]
From the article:
With Rendezvous making IP networking simple, and Java making cross platform network programming possible, we see the possibility for a beautiful friendship. An implementation of Rendezvous for Java, called jRendezvous, now allows Java programs running anywhere (not just Mac OS X) to participate in Rendezvous networks. With jRendezvous, Java programs can listen for, and advertise, services on the network with ease.

About Jaron’s concept of phenotropics

4. In Praise of Diversity – Ideas 2003: Jaron Lanier On Software Design – CIO Magazine Jan 1,2003

“The thing I’m interested in now is a high-risk, speculative, fundamental new approach to computer science. I call it phenotropics,” says the 42-year-old Lanier. By pheno, he means the physical appearance of something, and by tropics, he means interaction. Lanier’s idea is to create a new way to tie two pieces of software together. He theorizes that two software objects should contact each other “like two objects in nature,” instead of through specific modules or predetermined points of contact. With this type of protocol, there would be no previous agreement or expectation regarding the character of the exchange. Each software object would be responsible for “learning” how to interact with the other.

See the citations

CiteSeer: The NEC Research Institute Scientific Literature Digital Library
From the site:
CiteSeer is a scientific literature digital library that aims to improve the dissemination and feedback of scientific literature, and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness.

Rather than creating just another digital library, CiteSeer provides algorithms, techniques, and software that can be used in other digital libraries. CiteSeer indexes Postscript and PDF research articles on the Web, and provides the following features.