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Hi Eric,
Thanks for your queries below. Without familiarization with our demo (which can be downloaded from www.worldwideoutline.net ), it's difficult to present a concise - and intelligible - response to your questions, just as explaining the advantages and impacts of html would be difficult in the case of an interogator not familiar with the web. Because of its character as new kind of global information management system, it is difficult to reduce wwo to `three main benefits'. Howerver, one could say that it will provide a magnitude greater ease and power in:
1. Creation and capture of information of all kinds. All information, and all file types can be manipulated through, viewed within, and published to the net from within a single WWO client.
2. Publishing and sharing information in a global system. The *same* WWO client is seamlessly used to create and organize information on the desktop, to interlink it with previously published datastructures already online, and to publish it. WWO's experimental client allows for all file types to be drag-and-drop linked to its outliner topics, and version 2.0 will extend this same drag and drop functionality to allowing full linking of all file types to the text in the internal textcards/pages.
3. Hopefully, WWO will benefit all users on the planet who seek better means of organizing, accessing, and sharing information. You asked about how `web usage' would benefit, but WWO is a post-web technology which includes but subsumes the web. (Viewing the demo will clarify this point.)
Finally, as you asked about licenses and the business model, I can't go into detail here, but in general we hold with Gandhi that "True development puts first those that society puts last." So, while final decisions have not been made, we will probably 1) Provide free licensing of all levels of WWO related technology to a wide variety, and perhaps to all, NGO's on the planet, from Green Peace to women's shelters to the UN; and 2) Provide free access to entry-level WWO technology to all people. Licensing of `enterprise' and `professional' level versions, and of an ADM/WWO server product, will probably be sold. (Facilities for integration with other `people's products', such as openoffice, may also be included.)
That's it for now; thanks for your interest. And I look forward to your comments and feedback on the WWO tech.
Cordially, Eric
Who do you expect will receive the most benefit from it,
alternatively, how would you charaterize the type of web
usage which stands to receive the most benefit?=========
========== WWO will, when completed, provide a means to
* What's the business model? What are you planning to give
away, and what are you planning to sell? (If you know.
If not, what alternatives have you considered?)
* What's the licensing strategy, if any?
ADM Staff wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm Eric Sommer, CEO of Advanced Data Management, which is
> the lead company in a new initiative intended to subsume the
> web and other existing net services such as email in a
> broader, more comprehensive, easier to use, and more
> intelligent information system.
>
> This iniative is called "World Wide Outline" , and I'd like
> to invite all interestd members of this list, and especially
> those interested in work such as Dougals Engelbert's , to
> read about it and download our experimental early alpha-
> client to test drive it from www.worldwideoutline.net
>
> Once you've exaimined this early instantiation, I'll be glad
> to provide information on features such as `superlinking',
> `user customzied databases', and other elements to be
> incorporated shortly when we resume coding.
>
> Looking forward to hearing from you,
>
> Eric Sommer, CEO ADM P.S. Please, please use the help
> system in the wwo client; it's not rocket science, but you
> may not find your way around without it.
>
>
>
>
>
> Advanced Data Management Systems
> Email: staff@adm21.net
> website: http://www.adm21.net
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