The Meshverse Journal

John Robb of Global Guerrillas has put his finger on the power of the emerging sensor cloud as well as the powerful evolving trends in personal fabrication but he doesn’t tie them together via their Chinese connection. Here on the MJ, these all converge in the coming boom and Second Life. Yes, we can say location, location, location.  There are some excellent videos of Sense Networks CitySense location based service on O’Reilly. The underlying platform Macrosense

… is the world’s first platform capable of collecting and analyzing massive amounts of anonymous, aggregate location data in real-time.

At the heart of Macrosense are powerful machine learning algorithms that process time-stamped location data and metadata streams from heterogeneous sources – GPS, WiFi positioning, cell tower triangulation, RFID and other sensors – and empower companies and investors to better understand and predict human behavior on a macro scale.

Sense Networks

This is very powerful technology so the potential is high for both abuse and empowerment. However, the bottle has been uncorked and there’s no putting it back. See also on the MJ Power to the Prosumer and Location Oriented Software

As hinted at on the Node 3 page, Node 0 is being reactivated. Since the birth of the new Meshverse Journal, posts here at http://meshverse.wordpress.com automatically show up at Node 1 via RSS. Now, using the power of Chickenfoot, posts are replicated on Node 0 as well. Eventually the replication will work between all nodes so so any activity at any node will show up everywhere. There will be different flavors of The Meshverse Journal - Ning, PeopleAggregator, WordPress, Second Life, Croquet etc. all presenting the same content so you can pick whatever works best for you. This evolution has very powerful economic and technical implications. I’d love to explore them in depth here but my focus is currently on implementation and this is just a small step along the way - there’s a lot more to get done. As pieces get done, I’ll be using the MJ to incrementally talk about what’s going on. In the meantime, you can dig through previous posts to see how it is directly related to the genie that got out of the bottle I mentioned just over a year ago as well as the coming boom. Whether you’re a developer or a savvy, but non-programming netizen, you should find jolt of empowerment in the automation features of Chickenfoot that let you “rewrite the web”. It is after all, your computer so you ought to be able to cook up any mash/mesh you like!

This blog, now known as Node 0 of The Meshverse Journal has spawned two new operational nodes. Until further notice, no new content will appear here - read the details at Node 3. You are also welcome to join the social network at Node 1.