Lecture 2
WEB ENABLING COLLABORATIVE TOOLS
Web site
- Who hasn't been there yet?
- Adding Links -- please send them as everyone must send one
- I will add People once the roster solidifies
Dictionary terms
- Real successful Oxford Dictionary effort (v. French effort)
- The Professor and the Madman - Simon Winchester
- American Heritage Dictionary (1982)
Web:
- 5: A complex network (of telephone and electrical wires)
- 4: Something intricately constructed, esp. something that ensnares or entangles (of lies)
Enable:
- 1: To supply with the means, knowledge, or opportunity to be or do something
- 2: To give legal power, capacity, or sanction to
Collaborate:
- 1: To work together, esp in a joint intellectual effort
Tool:
- 4: Anything regarded as necessary to the carrying out of one's occupation or trade (others before that too physical based)
Collaboration Brainstorm:
- What are the categories of Collaboration tools ?
- What are examples of Collaboration tools ?
- What are some wild future Collaboration tools or tools of some other advanced civilization?
We will continue the brainstorm over the next few classes and I will put our final categorical list here.
During class 3, I will draw a diagram that hopefully clarifies the different collaborative layers
involved in software design. The inclusion of stock trading, e-vite, and airline reservation systems in
a list of collaborative software would open the lists up considerably. Instead, our interest lies in the
software built on top of these layers in order to better allow 'joint' working together.
We will all want to find existing code bases on which to build in class. Consider that fact as you look
for collaborative tool links to send me.