‘Software Theory’ Category

This was originally posted to the Knight News Challenge blog for the User as Content project by @silverton and @renato71.

User as Content implies income stream as Context. The place where the media is, be it a small remote embedded object or an enclosed and inclusive environment, is the revenue source. Without the interface the content is unreferenced and users cannot access it. There is going to be a push toward a unified environment standard, otherwise all the interfaces (viddler, 12seconds, seesmic, youtube, qik, etc) are impossible to use in harmony with each other unless you have a tool which integrates them in some way, even if it is email notifications alone. The only way to build a unified standard so important as a context system without monopolies and competition is Open Source.

If one interface has been created for any purpose on the web, any other operation possible on the web is possible in that interface; any interface online can integrate any other. The only variable is the time cost of a developer or team to integrate systems and formats. In the public space, that means an Open Source project properly planned which creates a context system that is designed for individual åuse and deployment to any server or local workstation wins the high ground in personal intentionality investment as a whole. This is due to the pervasiveness of technology, both device and software. As long as one conclusive standard is created, due to the nature of what it is proposed to be, if any acceptance at all occurs, the level of power offered to the participants is nothing other than a civil legal status which supercedes national government.

So in order to put together a reliable revenue stream capable of unifying all an individual’s channels, subscriptions, and interactive formats, we must also cross the unintentional but inevitable boundary of national sovereignty, as well as rise above the international commercial premise and perhaps more. This type of system is not one yet developed that I know of, but it is one that is infinitely simple, yet infinitely complex. It must coordinate infinite possible individuals, and infinite possible situations, of many natures. This is where philosophical components of a never before necessary level come into use which also pull in another level of sovereignty to rise above: religion and spirituality.

This is where Universal Individuality enters as a premise, making the approach necessary: Total-Scope Systems.

So to combine the User as Content idea with the full extent of the Context it implies, the individual comes out with full freedom on a level only bestowed to international intelligence agents and diplomates previously. Citizen Kings and Queens is the order, but to programmers it is just code. So now the code necessary for this situation that many supposed was utopian, is shown to be the only way to accomplish the next step in technology, media and civilization. And all it really is, is an Open Source project. All other Open Source projects are also integrated into this initial mold. Why is the initial mold made? Because a corporate plan has need of a unified platform? No, because an individual person is one, and one’s attention must be invested and ones intentions must be expressed in one life. Software does not yet reflect this reality, but it is the premise necessary for the real premise proposed in this project to work.

Does Google have the most preminence now because it is the best in quality, and we choose to implement it from among other choices of the same caliber? Or are there otherways to explore a more unified information space? When User as Content grows into an economic medium and social paradigm, will it be owned by centralized organizations or decentralized individual interests? To prepare for the full potential of the world these questions probe, an individual universal interface and context must be developed as an Open Source project which becomes a standard, like HTML, CSS, PDF, or like HTTP, IMAP, SMTP, POP3, etc. It must be designed to coexist with other standards and to be ignorable. But it must also be designed to unify the channels and interactions in all environments for those who rely upon it.

It could be setup completely peer-to-peer on tiny devices which rely on short range proximity. It could be setup on a cloud computing platform and everyone must have access to the internet to participate. Maybe it takes shape in both ways such that the individual intentionality investment portal, the context mentioned here, is stashed online and used from devices as well as connected to other online services from the primary host. Whatever the case may be, this unified individual environment standard will be the inevitable peak of human information systems, even if competing unified individual environment standards are created. People will begin to use a single interface to interact with all other information systems capacities in every circumstance as a premise for their participation. In that context, the context is absolutely an individual income stream. And the amount of ways for that is infinite.

I have been thinking a lot about this though seeming to remain idle online, here. It occured to me, marketing is news. When it is designer and spin marketing, it is bad news, a lie, broken news, but it is still news. So running a valuable operation in a business or charity is news. Government is news, but not just in its actions but in its existence and events in its existence, for instance if the status of a chair in a public office were published on twitter. All this news is designed to be information we take in as a context note. Somewhere, in my life, this is the case right now (or in the past, when archived), that is news, and that includes every aspect of human experience. In that situation, a project I have already been working on might be possible to interject as a premise for this existing project being discussed. It is a technology platform which integrates the philosophical requirements as well as the software requirements for everything I have said here. I call it, Congruciv - The Conclusive Congruent Civilization Platform. But really, it’s just the best news there is, and it is news which keeps making news, and will eventually be able to sustain news itself on the overall, in a peer-to-peer fashion, but most of all, for local communities.

Individual human communities of specific geographic center and fixed position are the biggest benefactors in this exchange. No longer is the LA infrastructure unreachable for the country town. Every city would have the same infrastructure which every individual has, and in fact, each individual subscribes to their municipal environment provider. All this remains micro-news, and part of Congruciv’s later expansion, the perfect container for the project being discussed, as I see it. I can contribute the idea and offer collaborative right and co-founder status if desired.

Reality is a metaphor, and what is physically perceived tells a story about a deeper reality inside us. For instance, the problem in philosophy is that no system holds together all elements of reality. No human thought has ever seamlessly held together all others. In the same way, humanity’s technology is fractured and independently usable only. Together there are consternating holes and bottlenecks at present. Each project cries for support. Instead, a unified platform can be used and that is only possible because the unified philosophical premise comes with the software. There are two products, a philosophical basis, and a software which moves according to that outlook. This minimizes code required and data complexity while maximizing efficiency, and power. So in technology, the outer and inner worlds unify because the internet became such a demanding event in our lives that we must get it together, and that too is news. We did something so massive it is going to overwhelm us for generations, or else we are going to produce a unified environment standard for future generations of individuals. They will not need to also be passed a trade or profession because their individual contribution through peer-to-peer systems will be their income stream, collected from as many sources as they cooperate with digitally. This world is too good to pass up just because it has not already been practiced before. The standard, once written, creates individual sovereignty of a grade which is national. All because of individual content, in all spheres of life shared.

Deployment Sequence Strategy For Web Application Interfaces and Systems Campaigns

It is not so simple as producing one interface for every web application or campaign of systems. Today there are many different types of devices, browsers, languages, levels of comprehension, and internet connection speeds for web community participants. Deploying systems in light of the diversity of technologies and user-cases involved, sequenced by priority of exposure potential, is the only way to experience the full potential of a web campaign.

Full and partial flash interfaces, AJAX, pure HTML/CSS, web-enabled handheld devices, and browsers each pose different factors to consider and demand different server-side and client-side approaches to provide service to each scenario smoothly. Each area has its cost. It is tempting to eliminate higher cost elements of interface design and engineering. Otherwise it might seem like the thing to do to focus on one interface only. But the only options for fully exposed web campaigns are to budget the resources necessary to do all interfaces at once, or to stagger development of elements in order of priority to defer the cost as necessary. Eventually every interface angle must be covered to see the full potential of any web-backed supported campaign.

In addition to visual interfaces there are application programmer interfaces, data exchange protocols available to affiliates, and increasingly compatible systems to integrate with.

Unless you have the budget to run parallel development teams to focus on each piece at once without overwhelming your developers, a project must be handled in modules.

The most prudent order of things is to release the functionality that expands your social footprint most ahead of interfaces which open your offering to more niche communities.

To deploy an offering in a way maximizing exposure, especially with Total-Scope systems, typical release schedules start with a general web application using only pure CSS/HTML/JS. The vast majority of “business logic” is coded into the server-side pieces. Next comes partial flash interface elements and sophisticated javascript elements. Next will come the AJAX interface option for browsers which support it. Sophisticated Javascript and full fledged AJAX begin to spread some of the business logic over to the client-side pieces. Then comes full scale flash interfaces. Many popular web tools will offer one or more alternatives to a fully flash interface. If handheld web-enabled devices represent more potential participants, put it ahead of the flash interface or don’t do a flash interface at all. Most of the truly massive web systems only use flash for what can only be done by flash.

As a exposure prioritized deployment pattern is followed, participants in user-cases released first help to fund the development of later interfaces. Some interfaces are required for acceptable circumstances to launch a public campaign, and other interfaces are subsequent expansions. Producing large web applications and campaigns of systems in order of exposure priority is pivotal for the success of a web campaign.