Cmaps API wanted, better OpenSource
Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 9:23 pm
Dear deciders, developers, evangelists of IHMC,
Cmaps can accelerate the evolution of Web2.0 considerably, proportional to its use. To really open up its full potential, it needs massive collaboration of users and developers.
Even if IHMC would pay a hundred programmers to advance it, this is nothing compared to zillions of OpenSource programmers, that could foster this marvel.
As minimum requirement for living, growing software, we expect an API. Even conservative software companies of the old economy as Microsoft, Adobe, Apple offer such extension options to its developer community.
If you prefer the style of a more progressive company, representing the new economy (WikiNomics) such as Google, then OpenSourcing would give Cmaps even more drive.
Imagine 3D conceptmapping with
* total immersion into VirtualReality
* Mathbrowsers with built-in inference-machines
* IDE with built in UML, interpreters, compiler, debuggers for programmers (even using Cmaps as its own development system)
* Debating tools for E-Democracy
* ... etc. etc
Of course these are the personal opinions of the poster. However this view is backed by experience and the following literature:
* Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World, Don Tapscott (the author of WikiNomics), 2009
* Web 2.0 A Strategy Guide: Business thinking and strategies behind successful Web 2.0 implementations, Amy Shuen, 2008
* ... many others
Cmaps can accelerate the evolution of Web2.0 considerably, proportional to its use. To really open up its full potential, it needs massive collaboration of users and developers.
Even if IHMC would pay a hundred programmers to advance it, this is nothing compared to zillions of OpenSource programmers, that could foster this marvel.
As minimum requirement for living, growing software, we expect an API. Even conservative software companies of the old economy as Microsoft, Adobe, Apple offer such extension options to its developer community.
If you prefer the style of a more progressive company, representing the new economy (WikiNomics) such as Google, then OpenSourcing would give Cmaps even more drive.
Imagine 3D conceptmapping with
* total immersion into VirtualReality
* Mathbrowsers with built-in inference-machines
* IDE with built in UML, interpreters, compiler, debuggers for programmers (even using Cmaps as its own development system)
* Debating tools for E-Democracy
* ... etc. etc
Of course these are the personal opinions of the poster. However this view is backed by experience and the following literature:
* Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World, Don Tapscott (the author of WikiNomics), 2009
* Web 2.0 A Strategy Guide: Business thinking and strategies behind successful Web 2.0 implementations, Amy Shuen, 2008
* ... many others