Desktop Web Machines

[chrisglasier]

I don't want to be accused of hiding my light under a bushel! So I am posting this video again (previously buried in the skel topic)

Here's a scheme for individuals to lay out what they want to achieve (rather than how they currently achieve it) to define contexts and actions that can be individually automated by the coding savvy community - a kind of Web enabled joint venture in which individuals take control and coders get new markets to service with a wider spectrum of useful apps. In considering this please first consider whether it was the IT sector that give us ATMs or the banks who got them to automate banking ideas and expertise.

I want it to encourage a movement that involves individuals as active participants in the development of the Web, to give coders more useful things to automate if nothing else.

For example, just recently Kineticjs, a 2D platform for html5, stopped work on its development. (It displays and animates the trainset nameset in the video). Basically, Eric could find no commercial rationale - Google is not going to buy everything! It's archived OK but basically a waste of talent and effort unless I can find it a new purpose. Have a look at threejs ... awesome indeed but it really needs people to define useful things to do with it if it is to avoid the same fate. Even NWJS that webifies desktops seems destined just to create more look-a-like text editors and so forth. (How many do the Yodas need?)

I am not sure whether this has much to do with Sketchup itself but I think there are members of Sketchucation who understand the need for a more healthy balance between individuals' information (expertise) and our amazing new found technology.

Please help by giving the video a big view count, since this seems the only way a lonesome innovator gets a chance to be taken seriously! .

Thanks

Added May 24 2015