Communication Nation: What's the best tool for communication?
If I had my druthers, there'd only be one answer for all of these conundrums - Mu. Refer to my blog post about omnicasting, which is a part of mu, and then also compare with the above illustration. All of the forms above can basically be mapped to the omnicube, and mu should be designed to handle (if not replace completely) all of them.
If I had my druthers, there'd only be one answer for all of these conundrums - Mu. Refer to my blog post about omnicasting, which is a part of mu, and then also compare with the above illustration. All of the forms above can basically be mapped to the omnicube, and mu should be designed to handle (if not replace completely) all of them.
Email - asynch, unicast (or multicast if cc:)
Commercial groupware - asynch, multicast
Wiki - a document, which is a 'conversation piece' nominal form in a muspace
E-learning tool - video is just a plugin to mu, one of many forms of media, and synch/asynch inherent, so elearning tools are unneccesary
Weblog - in the VoxBox metaphor, any output by a person is reachable via their presence icon in a muchat interface, be it blog, tweet, IM, etc.
IM - merely a synchronized unicast
Commerical desktop video - video enabled muspace chat 'room'
audio teleconference - merely a muspace with no video media. Mu is multimedia, so its not necessary to differentiate between audio and video teleconferences
Discussion forum - Usenet, forums, groups and threaded comments are all just versions of multiuser spaces but they happen to be totally asynch. Mu can handle asynch with the VoxBox metaphor.
