... forming, through storming and norming to performing | managing the life cycle of virtual teams

1969: NPL, Packet Switching and the Internet (application/pdf, 112 KB)

roger scantlebury says "early", but i think one source wrote february in a discussion about who was first, though: usa or europe ... pero no importa.

1989 march: information management, a proposal | thanks chris

1998 sept.: semantic web, a roadmap

2009 tim berners-lee found a new old name and calls it linked data. 1910 paul otlet & co may have gone in the same direction with "linked documents".

anyhow, there are steven newcomb and michel biezunski also talking and thinking for a long time about how to make information stick; how can someone/[something] who is pointed at know that he is pointed at ... | newcomb (audio/mpeg, 634 KB) , 2002

hytime, an iso standard since 1992.

today one can argue that to know that someone has pointed at somebody else describes the story of social networking tools best. it just seems to be that human to find out who was setting the pointer? who is this chap that found me? it's not about search, it's not about friendship it's about being found.

once i listened to tomonori aoyama, university of tokyo, who talked about that it should be possible to re-think networking protocols without any restriction, even considering x.25 or so. at stanford they call this notion clean slate.

Our mission is to reinvent Internet infrastructure and services by creating "platforms for innovations" in networking, computing, and storage and making them available to research and user communities with emphasis on mobile computing.

nice budget, though

... The Stanford researchers are being joined by five full-time engineers--three from Deutsche Telekom and two from NEC. Including the value of the engineers' time, each company has pledged to support the lab with $750,000 a year for three years, a total of $4.5 million | campus

and additional nsf grants as for POMI.

Programmable Open Mobile Internet 2020 (POMI 2020), which was funded in August with a $10 million National Science Foundation grant.