Digital Living

Firefox Sets A New Guiness-Book World Record As The Most Downloaded New Released Software!

The formal announcement is not yet made, but the official is now preparing to announce Firefox as the most downloaded new-release software on the internet.

We always believe in the power of the people. The magical act of people doing things together.

But the way they do it is really really awesome. How they come up with an idea that makes people around the world do something great and really excellent together is really really awesome.

And -- at the end -- the way they let everybody that is involved to keep a "token-of-rememberance" of such world-scale accomplishment is really really wonderful. Truly wonderful too. This is how they did it:

People around the world. We can create truly magical things together.

Truly awesome!!

ps: I'm waiting for my "banner" too :-) Such would be really really awesome to keep and remember. :-) :-) :-) Once, in a lifetime occassion. :-)

Soon The Way People Communicate & Work Together Around The Globe Will Change

Soon, the way people communicate and work together around the globe will change. No more we will be bounded by distance that separate us. Our "office" will become global. No more boundaries for getting effective and productive. Everything would be simply visual, communicative and interactive at the same time.

Video, sound and document will be integrated as one.

This is probably an illustration of how we will "look", "talk" and "interact" each other in the future:

• Linda in Japan.
• Jenny in the USA.
• Robert somewhere in the planet.
• All in "one" place!!!

The technology is soon will be fully ready for that. The people are increasingly ready for that. What is needed now is perhaps a continuous systematic effort to really make it happen.

We will see how soon it will become a true, daily, everyday reality.

The 3 Important OpenComputing Initiatives That Worxcode Embrace ... (And Why)

There are 3 open computing initiatives that we at Worxcode believe the world need to enable, empower, embrace, extend and expand.

One is the OpenOffice.org which will give people access to computing power to create knowledge and to communicate, connect and integrate with others. Second is the OpenOS initiatives which will give people the foundation for them to integrate with the machine they need to do their work. And third is the OpenLaptop initiative (the XO computer) which will give people (and especially children around the world) the foundation to learn, educate, enhance, connect and integrate their lives and knowledge with the lives and knowledge of many others around the world.

When these three initiatives combined, people (and our future children -- whereever they are, whatever background they had, wherever they are born, however their condition) will have the medium for interaction, means for communication and collaboration, as well as "means of production" that would help them all contribute their work, thoughts and mind to the work and progress of the world at large. Through that, each one of them, (and everyone of us) could expand the world together, and make our "shrinked world" (due to the global access and connectivity we now got) a better place to be.

"Connectivity that shrink the world, access to ideas that expands the world" -- what a beauty that will emerge when these things start to happen. - Arvino, Worxcode

Worxcode will try to contribute thought and effort to society through these kind of act and initiatives. We would like to bring opencomputing, "social computing" and "accessible/affordable computing" to the masses, and see it come true as the new strong core foundation (or DNA) of people's modern living, and daily living activity.

At its innermost intimate heart, we truly believe the soul and purpose and true value of business really exist in the business' potential to do contribution and advancement to the betterness of  greater society.  At this juncture, we believe supporting, embracing, extending and contributing to these three world initiatives is key. The future shape, DNA and texture of our digital modern society depends on its success.

Three thousand years of our modern society's accessible future depends on all of us working together, choices we made, decisions we take, and actions we do.

Participations welcomed.

Today Is A "Special" Day, Because ...

Today is special because today is the day Apple Leopard -- the most advanced operating system on the planet, and probably the O/S that will redefine the look, behavior and feel of future generation OSes  that is about to come -- being premiered.

Leopard being released - Awesome!

Oh that look! ... those sense of perfection, wonderful creativity, ingenuity and awesome beauty!

Today is also special because soon it is also going to be the birthday of Bill Gates, a day when the Ballmer's Microsoft troops perhaps would gathered, and being proud a bit (or a lot ?) about the great result of "Vista & Desktop System Sales" (which was skyrocketing like Microsoft never experienced before), at a time when the real look and behavior of the "latest Vista OS" still look (and oddly feel) like this:

"Vista": Mixed reincarnation that is not yet "fully done"! -- half Apple-Leopard half Microsoft-Longhorn today -- half Linux Berryl 3D later on?? -- How would it be at the end?? ...

Bill Gates birthday, at the point where Vista got "skyrocketing sales numbers" ... but does it already come with "real great engine + solid UI capabilities" too? -- (May be not)

Today is also probably special because today is the day the possible shapes of the "future of internet and work" is being explored, defined and refined. Everybody is conferencing [or "unconferencing"] about Web 2.0, "WebNext" and the future of "work". As the result, something that is so much fascinating, cool and fun for our future; something that would -- probably -- one day would change society for the better is being invented. Next leap innovations will flourish because of that.

With all that, within 1, 2, 5, 10, 15, 20, 20+ years from now probably it would be interesting for us all to look back across history, relook and see once again the significance of "simultaneous things" that is coincidentally happening this day, and nostalgically wonder how many great things that might have happened in the future that day might not have happened at all if its not because of series of events that is happening simultaneously around the world -- sometime, somewhere around today.

That's what makes today is so special.

"OpenOffice.org + ODF" Aim & Goal (In Barcelona 2007) : To Together Contribute, Shape, Refine, Design, Influence, Change & Advance Society's World Digital Document Standard ... For The Better

This picture was a momento from the OpenOffice Conference - Barcelona - 2007. It was a group photo of some of us that was gathering at the park -- during lunch break -- at that time.

As a group, together we all perhaps just simply would like to contribute something open, powerful and useful; Something that owned and belong to the people and to the world's society as a whole; Something  that would perhaps enhance, shape and influence the DNA and the core social fabric of our digital living society -- today and in the coming future -- for the better.

Just like world's culture, music, dance, language, dialects, and social-standards in the past, we probably  believe the future DNA of our digital living society shall belong to the people and world-society as a whole (as natural part of our increasing "digital living culture"), and NOT to any closed-proprietary-standard at all time.

At the heart of our "struggle", we perhaps unified in a sincere believe that open-standard should be part of the living culture of our digital-living society; in the perspective that no-private business entity no matter what shall ever own that.

Today our effort and struggle perhaps together being reflected -- as one unified whole -- in the form of collectively supporting and shaping up OpenOffice.org development, enhancement and adoption around the world, as well in promoting adoption and support of its underlying ODF standard.

Sometime in the future, it could take a different unique path and form.

No matter what the form of the contribution is today and no matter how it might change in the future, the essence of our "struggle" is probably would continuously (and universally) be the same across time, ages, region, culture, continent and people:

The world need an open digital document standard and it is nobody else but society itself that must own that world's open standard.

This form of "new open digital document standard" should be "a thing" is based on the foundation and philosophy of "from the people, by the people and for the people" that proprietary format shall/could/would not.

It shall be the guardian for the security, longevity & sustainability of our (today) and future society and digital living culture; the core foundation of where the next step  creativity, imagination and innovation capabilities of today and future world's society act, work, living and culture will be built upon.

At the current moment, through OpenOffice.org and ODF many of us aim to contribute initial seed of what would make that happen successfully in reality; to put continuous effort and act to ensure that such idea would have its chance to flourish, to be adapted, to be nurtured and supported, so that -- one day -- it would increasingly have its better chance to survive and see its most successful implementation (and adoption) happen in reality.

Just like adoption of TCP/IP open-standard and HTML open-standard in the past (which gives us all the ubiquitous and powerful internet that we can't live without today), we collectively believe adoption of OpenOffice.org and its underlying open document (ODF) format would perhaps -- one day -- become one of the most important social battle that world-society has to win against all odds. The future and the very strong foundation/social-fabric/DNA of our (current and future) digital living society probably would truly depends on it.

At its most crucial essence, open document standard -- we believe -- shall be the core DNA of the new digital living society we all about to live in. Open document standard -- accepted worldwide -- shall become the basis and core foundation of our new "digital living culture". Proprietary lock-in format shall not.

Although no formal statement of what we really aim to do (and try to do) exist yet, the core ideas and essence of our collective believe and feel (as it is captured across the halls, walls, chat, break-out session, ad-hoc discussion and high spirited panel sessions that was happening throughout the Barcelona 2007 Conference), probably could be reflected/recorded and "logically sequenced" as follow:

• As a whole we probably really think and feel that ODF shall eventually become a universal digital document and content format that is 100% owned by the people, belongs to the people, and be made useful for the people.

• In that retrospect, future development of a closed proprietary standard that does not owned nor belonged to society shall probably eventually be stopped.

• Through adoption of that new open-standard, we perhaps sincerely believe that a new social platform for innovation would widely open, where thousand new ideas and contribution would then bloom on top of the new open platform.

• Through such, the world & the DNA of the digital living society we are all about to live in would change significantly forward for the better, as:

• Everybody can then participate, enhance and contribute even faster, better to the living, evolving open standard.
• The  core DNA and foundation of the digital living society that we all live in can then be evolved, embraced, enhanced, and expanded even faster and better to various new boundaries of possibilities that we would never imagine before. Yet at all times with greatest assurance that it will still continue be owned by world-society as a whole.

• Eventually each and everyone of us would be able to innovate on such open platform that belongs to the people and be used solely for the benefit and advancement of the people and society as a whole.

• In the process this could collectively and eventually enhance society's power and capabilities for the better better in exponential ways we could never imagine before -- just like the internet has been in the past.

• Such would spark even a new and better level of innovation and advancement both in the growth and evolution of the platform as well as on the capabilities of the world-society that it supported.

• Such makes an even more powerful and significant Digital Living DNA for world-society of today and in the future happening greatly and significantly; something that would perhaps be more exciting, significant and important than what we have seen with the internet today and so far in the past.

• Having all that we sincerely would believe would truly enhance and advanced society for the better.

Some people might say that this aim sometimes -- or many times -- seems "ridiculous" or "crazy". Perhaps that is -- in some way -- true. Indeed it's probably a bit "crazy". :-)

Yet as history repeatedly show, positive changes mostly happens because the idea once seems "crazy enough" to change the world, so that eventually it is being supported by "crazy people" that eventually seems "crazy" enough to be willing to work creatively hard together -- as one unified "world-band of brothers" -- to eventually be able to make those "crazy" change and ideas eventually happens successfully, for the betterness, benefit and advancement of the people, society, the world and the world-culture as a whole.

To reflect the essence, importance and gung-ho spirit behind these "collective group's effort, act, and ideas", once again the "crazy", poetic, significant, daring, yet truthful words of Apple below might describe it best:

THE CRAZY ONES

Here's to the crazy ones ..
The misfits; the rebels ..
The troublemakers ..
The roundpegs in the square hole.
The one who see things differently.

They're not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo.

You can quote them,
Disagree with them,
Glorify or vilivy them.

But the only thing you can't do,
is to ignore them.

Because they change things.
They push the human race forward.

And while some may see them as the crazy ones.
We see genius.

Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world ...
... are the ones who do.

The battle for adoption of OpenOffice.org and its underlying ODF perhaps would be a continuous,  hard, dedicated big battle ahead. It might not be an easy struggle. Yet at its most important essence, it would be something that is powerful, truthful, honest and worthwhile to do, as it would do nothing else but to enhance society (today and in the future) for the better.

A thousand years of fate, future, longevity, security and advancement of the core DNA of our "new" digital living society depends on our successful outcome in this struggle.

Towards its importance, significance, honesty, truthfulness, and no-fuss-sincere-"nobel"-goals, everybody is welcomed to help, contribute, participate and join.

The Outsourcing Of Everything ...

Imagine a world that happen to become so flat, so that everything would be able to be outsourced.

If such world truly happening, what would some "strange" thing that would start to happen? What would we say to our children when -- one day -- they said: "Dad, you outsource your officework overseas for xxx per page to India, why can't I do the same with my homework? -- e.g. outsource it to other kids in India for 5 Rupee a page??".

A new paradigm is happening, a new reasoning and a new answer to tough question will need to be found; a world with thousand opportunities and million new "strange" logics  (and million "strange consequences") that needs to be discovered.

Some things are perhaps worth thinking today, so we really won't be that "surprised" tomorrow, when those "strange things" and "their funny consequences" really happened.

What an interesting world we are all live in today, ... and about to live in tomorrow!.

Great "threats" and "opportunity" might emerge out of that. Perhaps :-)

 

2nd Earth: The New "Digital-Earth" We All About To Live In

Probably we are all today increasingly live in a "second earth", a digital world that link and wire our existing planet earth (as well as its people) together, whereby in there every single "physical object and being" that exist is increasingly being translated into digital.

With digitalization of such massive scale,  "almost everything" comes digital. Digital connectivity, digital living, digital discovery, digital interactivity, and digital society are some of the early forms of "new digital living" that forms this new emerging world, connectivity and society. Together they resembles a  new nature and capabilities on how we act, interact, respond, react and live our daily living everyday.

The implications of the emergence of this "second earth" -- which is fully digital by nature -- for the next year and the next era to come is still unknown. Only as we eventually collectively shape it across time and space, we start to "know", "understand" and "discover" its full emerging consequences and behavior.

• A second earth -- a place where every society, information, work, interactivity and being is start being connected, linked and integrated without boundaries; a great place where every social object is integrated as one, and where every digital content is shared, casted, enriched, collaborated and truly made unified is soon about to happen.

• What would be its most natural impact and consequences of it for to our daily living, to our daily working, to the shape and form of our business, to the daily changing nature of our culture, to the daily working of our leadership form and growing nature of our society?.

• When all "rules" that currently existing in our current physical world that we live in suddenly becoming "totally-in-reverse" and felt "awfully strange" in the new digital world, we might not have the necessary tool nor mental model as individual nor society to fully cope with that. In the midst of this great progress, exciting discoveries and upcoming "uncertainties", it would then perhaps be interesting to put some thoughts, perspective and considerations in the shape, space and consequences of the digital world we are all about to live in.

• What would these changes really bring? In its outmost positive forms?

The implication of the formation of this fully-digital "2nd earth" probably would one day be remembered as "as significant", as important, and as impactful as our previous transition from traditional economy to industrial economy, as impactful as our transition from industrial economy to our information economy, as powerful as our transition from separated geography into web-scale "geography" (if geography is even still have a meaningful meaning in today's 2nd-earth-world that sense no boundary)".

Full understanding the potential power, impact and social consequences of the formation of 2nd earth one day might be truly important.

Perhaps, if we can start to understand the full new rule and logic (and new positive/negative consequences") of this "2nd earth", then perhaps we can all start crafting, creating and contributing something that would produce a much better shape, texture and structure for our greater society. Not only the current societies, but also for the great next future that is also about to come.

Through such insightful understanding, we might one day have better ideas of things that is about to come our way, things that increasingly will impact the form and shape of the "DNA" of our greater society. Things that  might redefine shape, nature, "texture", feel and profile of our current society and our even better "future" societies.

It is through exploration of these, each and everyone of us might be able to see the whole sense and context of these in its most complete and truest perspective. Based on that, we -- and each one of us -- perhaps would be able to contribute our greatest contributions, ideas and act, to shape a better world for our greater, larger boundary-less, always-on, mobile, digital, well-informed, connected, integrated society.