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The Base Camp of Swarming eyebees
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Art of swarming
I start playing with it today. Different, but it's just not too popular (yet) so the "swarms" are small. Either that, or I am just not looking in the right areas.
It also is a bit choppy when it runs. I have gotten some errors, where I had to close out of my browser, then relaunch it. Something to do with script blocking I think.
I decided to uninstall it for now. It was just too unstable. I understand they are working out the bugs, as it is still in the beta stage.
http://www.eyebees.com/txt/thread.php?thread_id=3eab336408634
Posted by Jack on 27-04-2003 03:33
Friends in Swarming,
My name is Jack. I co-created swarming with George, Marco and Martin -- with whom some of you have already been speaking.
I'm genuinely sorry to hear of all your troubles with connecting, the script errors you're recieving, and so on. I know this isn't of much consolation to your difficulties, but rest assured, t all is bellicose here in the hunt-down for these putrid bugs. You all should be able to log on very soon.
We're doing everything we possibly can to ensure swarming works smoothly for everyone and soon.
Please bear with us and keep the bug reports coming.
Thank you -- and thanks for downloading the software.
best,
Jack
Think I'll wait. Thanks anyway. :)
TERMS OF SERVICES
Swarming is a Web service operated by Eyebees B.V. Amsterdam The Netherlands, that enables you, as an owner and or webmaster of a website or websites (“Member”), to show the presence, location and movement of visitors to your site(s), what we call Swarming, and have your visitors send messages to each other (“Services”). By using the Services you explicitly agree to the following terms of services (“Terms of Services”). If you are not willing to accept the Terms of Service, we ask you not to use the Services.
Article 1 Privacy
Your privacy is important to us. For using the Services you do not have to disclose any personal information. Please read our Privacy Policy for more information.
Article 2 Instructions
You undertake to duly comply with all instructions for the use of the Services and not to use the Services contrary to these Terms of Services. Your use of the Services is subject to all applicable national and international laws and regulations.
Article 3 Restriction/termination
We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to restrict, suspend or terminate your access to all or any part of the Services, in case you do not use the Services in accordance with these Terms of Services or the applicable and international laws and regulations without prior notice or liability.
We also reserve the right to remove your account that is "inactive" for a period of 30 days without prior notice or liability. "Inactive" means that visitors have not logged in to your site(s).
Article 4 Warranties
The Services are provided on an `as is` and `as available` basis. We make no representations or endorsement about the suitability, timeliness or accuracy of the Services. We disclaim all warranties, either express or implied, including, but not limited to, warranties of condition, quality, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.
We do not make any warranty that the Services will meet your requirements or expectations, or that access to the Services will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free. We make no warranties as to the results that may be obtained from the use of the Services or as the accuracy, quality, or reliability of any information obtained by using the Services.
You understand and agree that any material and/or data obtained through the use of the Services is used at your own risk. You agree that you will be solely responsible for any damage to your computer system or loss of data that results from the download of material and/or data and the implementation of our Services on your site(s).
Article 5 Liability
You agree that your use of the Services is at your sole risk.
In no event shall we, our subsidiaries, affiliates, directors, agents or any other party involved in creating, producing, or delivering of the Services, be liable for any damages whatsoever, including, but not limited to, any direct and indirect damages, arising out of or related to the use of our services, the content of any message send by your visitors, all other use, inability to use, unauthorized use or non-performance of the Services.
Article 6 Indemnification
You hereby agree to indemnify and hold harmless Eyebees, our subsidiaries, affiliates, directors, agents or any other party involved in creating, producing, or delivering of the Services against any and all liability, losses, damages and claims of any third party due to or arising out of your use of or conduct on the Services.
Article 7 Intellectual property
You acknowledge that the Services contain information, data, software, photographs, graphics, videos, images, sounds and other material (collectively `Content`) that are protected by copyrights, trademarks, or other proprietary rights.
It is prohibited to copy, modify, display, transmit, publish, transfer, sell or in any other way make available the Content (or any part thereof) without our prior approval.
Article 8 Miscellaneous
We reserve the right to modify and assign these Terms of Service, in whole or in part, at any time.
If any provision of these Terms of Services is determined to be (partly) invalid or unenforceable, then such provision shall be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of these Terms of Services shall continue in effect.
These Terms of Services are governed by the laws of the Netherlands without regard to its choice of law provisions. The district court in Amsterdam has the exclusive jurisdiction regarding any and all disputes relating to these Terms of Services. You irrevocably consent to bring any action to enforce these Terms of Services in the district court located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Enjoy swarming!
It also is a bit choppy when it runs. I have gotten some errors, where I had to close out of my browser, then relaunch it. Something to do with script blocking I think.
I decided to uninstall it for now. It was just too unstable. I understand they are working out the bugs, as it is still in the beta stage.
http://www.eyebees.com/txt/thread.php?thread_id=3eab336408634
Posted by Jack on 27-04-2003 03:33
Friends in Swarming,
My name is Jack. I co-created swarming with George, Marco and Martin -- with whom some of you have already been speaking.
I'm genuinely sorry to hear of all your troubles with connecting, the script errors you're recieving, and so on. I know this isn't of much consolation to your difficulties, but rest assured, t all is bellicose here in the hunt-down for these putrid bugs. You all should be able to log on very soon.
We're doing everything we possibly can to ensure swarming works smoothly for everyone and soon.
Please bear with us and keep the bug reports coming.
Thank you -- and thanks for downloading the software.
best,
Jack
Think I'll wait. Thanks anyway. :)
TERMS OF SERVICES
Swarming is a Web service operated by Eyebees B.V. Amsterdam The Netherlands, that enables you, as an owner and or webmaster of a website or websites (“Member”), to show the presence, location and movement of visitors to your site(s), what we call Swarming, and have your visitors send messages to each other (“Services”). By using the Services you explicitly agree to the following terms of services (“Terms of Services”). If you are not willing to accept the Terms of Service, we ask you not to use the Services.
Article 1 Privacy
Your privacy is important to us. For using the Services you do not have to disclose any personal information. Please read our Privacy Policy for more information.
Article 2 Instructions
You undertake to duly comply with all instructions for the use of the Services and not to use the Services contrary to these Terms of Services. Your use of the Services is subject to all applicable national and international laws and regulations.
Article 3 Restriction/termination
We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to restrict, suspend or terminate your access to all or any part of the Services, in case you do not use the Services in accordance with these Terms of Services or the applicable and international laws and regulations without prior notice or liability.
We also reserve the right to remove your account that is "inactive" for a period of 30 days without prior notice or liability. "Inactive" means that visitors have not logged in to your site(s).
Article 4 Warranties
The Services are provided on an `as is` and `as available` basis. We make no representations or endorsement about the suitability, timeliness or accuracy of the Services. We disclaim all warranties, either express or implied, including, but not limited to, warranties of condition, quality, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.
We do not make any warranty that the Services will meet your requirements or expectations, or that access to the Services will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free. We make no warranties as to the results that may be obtained from the use of the Services or as the accuracy, quality, or reliability of any information obtained by using the Services.
You understand and agree that any material and/or data obtained through the use of the Services is used at your own risk. You agree that you will be solely responsible for any damage to your computer system or loss of data that results from the download of material and/or data and the implementation of our Services on your site(s).
Article 5 Liability
You agree that your use of the Services is at your sole risk.
In no event shall we, our subsidiaries, affiliates, directors, agents or any other party involved in creating, producing, or delivering of the Services, be liable for any damages whatsoever, including, but not limited to, any direct and indirect damages, arising out of or related to the use of our services, the content of any message send by your visitors, all other use, inability to use, unauthorized use or non-performance of the Services.
Article 6 Indemnification
You hereby agree to indemnify and hold harmless Eyebees, our subsidiaries, affiliates, directors, agents or any other party involved in creating, producing, or delivering of the Services against any and all liability, losses, damages and claims of any third party due to or arising out of your use of or conduct on the Services.
Article 7 Intellectual property
You acknowledge that the Services contain information, data, software, photographs, graphics, videos, images, sounds and other material (collectively `Content`) that are protected by copyrights, trademarks, or other proprietary rights.
It is prohibited to copy, modify, display, transmit, publish, transfer, sell or in any other way make available the Content (or any part thereof) without our prior approval.
Article 8 Miscellaneous
We reserve the right to modify and assign these Terms of Service, in whole or in part, at any time.
If any provision of these Terms of Services is determined to be (partly) invalid or unenforceable, then such provision shall be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of these Terms of Services shall continue in effect.
These Terms of Services are governed by the laws of the Netherlands without regard to its choice of law provisions. The district court in Amsterdam has the exclusive jurisdiction regarding any and all disputes relating to these Terms of Services. You irrevocably consent to bring any action to enforce these Terms of Services in the district court located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Enjoy swarming!
Information Swarming: Collaboration sans Frontiers
Information Swarming: Collaboration sans Frontiers
April 13, 2003
There are some technologies - or better still - technology movements which inadvertently make you sit up and take notice. And Swarming is one such thing. This review also kicks off a series of Technology and Product Reviews pieces K-Praxis will be doing in the field of intelligent, automated or semi-automated personal Internet information management and information collaboration....
The trigger for this "sit-up-and-take-notice" phenomenon has been a recent announcement by an Amsterdam based company Eyebees. Eyebees made available a beta version of its product for public use. Eyebees is an IE plug-in which lets you become part of or lead a "swarm" of people surfing/navigating the Internet. Not only that the you will be able to see other "swarmers" but message them and see a visualization where every swarmer represents a blue dot.
In the words of Jack Bury - a 20 year old co-founder and the "in-house poet" at Eyebees: "The enveloping presence of thousands of minds, tracing across the Internet Sky in strange union—hissing and livid and one in censure of war—would be a conspicuous, awe-inspiring sight of this next social revolution taking firm hold."
With Eyebees, you can create a your own swarm , join a new swarm - and that too anonymously without parting even with your email address. You could also create what Eybees calls as a Metaswarm , a meeting place for people and other "swarms" interested in a particular topic. Conceptually, a Metaswarm could be a cluster of swarms belonging to a topic.
K-Praxis has been checking out the beta version of the software. And it looks like that Eyebees has a long way to go, but nevertheless, a step in a seemingly right direction.
Eyebees opens up new wave of information collaboration which will let you tap into a shared collective memory of information users. It also represents a practical-implementation-level attempt at translating a metaphor form biological systems into a piece of usable software - the name of the company, Eyebees, is telling enough.
The idea of information swarming is theoretically very similar to the idea of swarm-bots, there is a full-fledge EU funded project dedicated to Swarm Bots. The project focuses on developing technologies based on ideas like swarm intelligence - which in turn use, recent interests in the self-organizing and self-assembling capabilities apparent in colonies of social insects like bees and other animal societies.
With Eyebees and swarmbot based agents, and other tools like Quek the shared collaboration of the Internet knowledge space introduced by user-groups and later upheld by the blogging community, now could take new instaneous turn. One could see endless possibilities and a host of practical applications for this type of information sharing tool but hold on to your horses, it is important to be cautious about what a technology can do and resist the temptation of putting a cart before the horse, dictum to remember in these troubled economic times is that: when it comes to software think a hundred times before inventing a need .
To be continued....
April 13, 2003
There are some technologies - or better still - technology movements which inadvertently make you sit up and take notice. And Swarming is one such thing. This review also kicks off a series of Technology and Product Reviews pieces K-Praxis will be doing in the field of intelligent, automated or semi-automated personal Internet information management and information collaboration....
The trigger for this "sit-up-and-take-notice" phenomenon has been a recent announcement by an Amsterdam based company Eyebees. Eyebees made available a beta version of its product for public use. Eyebees is an IE plug-in which lets you become part of or lead a "swarm" of people surfing/navigating the Internet. Not only that the you will be able to see other "swarmers" but message them and see a visualization where every swarmer represents a blue dot.
In the words of Jack Bury - a 20 year old co-founder and the "in-house poet" at Eyebees: "The enveloping presence of thousands of minds, tracing across the Internet Sky in strange union—hissing and livid and one in censure of war—would be a conspicuous, awe-inspiring sight of this next social revolution taking firm hold."
With Eyebees, you can create a your own swarm , join a new swarm - and that too anonymously without parting even with your email address. You could also create what Eybees calls as a Metaswarm , a meeting place for people and other "swarms" interested in a particular topic. Conceptually, a Metaswarm could be a cluster of swarms belonging to a topic.
K-Praxis has been checking out the beta version of the software. And it looks like that Eyebees has a long way to go, but nevertheless, a step in a seemingly right direction.
Eyebees opens up new wave of information collaboration which will let you tap into a shared collective memory of information users. It also represents a practical-implementation-level attempt at translating a metaphor form biological systems into a piece of usable software - the name of the company, Eyebees, is telling enough.
The idea of information swarming is theoretically very similar to the idea of swarm-bots, there is a full-fledge EU funded project dedicated to Swarm Bots. The project focuses on developing technologies based on ideas like swarm intelligence - which in turn use, recent interests in the self-organizing and self-assembling capabilities apparent in colonies of social insects like bees and other animal societies.
With Eyebees and swarmbot based agents, and other tools like Quek the shared collaboration of the Internet knowledge space introduced by user-groups and later upheld by the blogging community, now could take new instaneous turn. One could see endless possibilities and a host of practical applications for this type of information sharing tool but hold on to your horses, it is important to be cautious about what a technology can do and resist the temptation of putting a cart before the horse, dictum to remember in these troubled economic times is that: when it comes to software think a hundred times before inventing a need .
To be continued....
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