There is some work being done at Meadan on mapping users and a scalable interface -- this might represent an opportunity for convergence. if the "thin client" (xo) didn't have processing power to generate/update in realtime, you could generate such a map on a server, or peer to peer on another cluster of computers (ex peer "donors"), and perhaps push over a simple bitmap using ajax?
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/20/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos</b> <<a href="mailto:ypod@mit.edu">ypod@mit.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Representation of massive numbers of XOs in the network is definitely an<br>interesting problem. It may be a little early to jump into providing<br>solutions, but I dealt with the problem recently while working on my<br>space activity, and space itself can be a scarce resource on screen,
<br>especially if you won't the layout of the icons to make some sense.<br><br>Given a standard amount of space (the screen size), one approach is<br>resize the icons in order to accommodate more icons on screen. But do we
<br>just resize all icons equally? I'd say no, because you may want to keep<br>close friends at standard icon size and have everybody else shrink<br>according to the level of interaction you may have with them. So, one
<br>size does not fit all.<br><br>I would even go as far as to propose a Google Earth approach, where you<br>zoom-out above ground and back in to focus on the people you're looking<br>for. Also, providing a "temperature map" of human clusters may be
<br>another approach. I understand that the processing power required in<br>both cases may also be "massive" and therefore prohibitive, but I just<br>meant to layout some ideas.<br><br>Pol<br><br>Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
<br>> Thank you, Walter,<br>><br>> Ah, yes. I would think that we could emphasize the "openness" of<br>> platform so that letting people setup their own Jabber server would be<br>> one way to go, as it is more likely that the buyers of G1G1 will have
<br>> some other computers.<br>><br>> Still an SNS system hooked up with laptops ID might be good.<br>> Customizable SNS engines like OpenPNE could be a good starting<br>> point to set up something relatively in short time...
<br>><br>> -- Yoshiki<br>><br>> At Sat, 20 Oct 2007 07:33:09 -0400,<br>> Walter Bender wrote:<br>><br>>> Even outside of the context of the G1G1 program, many of your<br>>> questions are relevant. The current "neighborhood view" will not scale
<br>>> for a large school. We have a number of enhancements to the view in<br>>> the works, principally filtering. (As Philip mentioned, the "friends<br>>> view", to which you invite people, is in essence a filtered
<br>>> neighborhood view--there can be many others.) In the context of a<br>>> school or community deployment, there will be multiple Jabber servers,<br>>> but we will also want the Jabber servers to talk to each other at some
<br>>> level, so that there are bridges between islands of users. For G1G1,<br>>> there will be a default Jabber server, but undoubtedly more will pop<br>>> up.<br>>><br>>> -walter<br>>>
<br>>> On 10/20/07, Yoshiki Ohshima <<a href="mailto:yoshiki@vpri.org">yoshiki@vpri.org</a>> wrote:<br>>><br>>>> Hello,<br>>>><br>>>> Recently, I talked with some folks who are trying to do promotion of
<br>>>> the give one get one program, and some issues (all are related) came<br>>>> up:<br>>>><br>>>> - How many users can be shown in the mesh view?<br>>>> - If you limit the number of buddys on the view, how do you limit?
<br>>>> - Are we going to have many (jabber) servers for these buyers in the US?<br>>>> - Are we going to have an SNS like community so that (for example)<br>>>> a set of friends can have a place to find each other easily?
<br>>>><br>>>> A senario was that a kid and her niece on the different coasts should<br>>>> be able to find each other.<br>>>><br>>>> I don't know if there is plan for these (for the G1G1 program), but
<br>>>> having an SNS site sounds like a good idea. The parents will feel<br>>>> safer if they know with whom their kids are talking.<br>>>><br>>>> -- Yoshiki<br>>>> _______________________________________________
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