Planetwork Forum
at the Exploratorium
in San Francisco
November 14, 2002

Project Presentations:

Leslie Mehan - Mystic Engineer

Michael Tolson - Envoii
http://www.envoii.com

Tom Munneke - Giving Space
http://givingspace.org

Bill Moulton - Navagent
http://navagent.com

Ruby Yeh - Folks Network
http://www.FolksNetwork.com

Projects in slightly more detail:

Leslie Mehan - I can see a multi-year, multi-organization, multi-project process beginning to explore coalescing into a new level of co-creation community. The tangible forms (software products) still appear independent to me, but conversations seem to be leading toward building together in a new way. My sense is that the Internetworking being is shifting from visions and cells to an embryonic reality, but I cannot really see its form.

Michael Tolson - Envoii is a radically innovative platform for the creation of graphically rich and highly connected next-generation web services oriented solutions; built in C++ and using a Java-like virtual machine for scripting behaviors. Envoii Ü smart, rich and connected.

Joe Skopek - The EARTHscope» is a new tool designed to help people grasp the critical choices that will shape humanity's future, by displaying interactive and animated data about the state of the Earth and our possible futures.

Tom Munneke - Givingspace mission: To sow the seeds of a global self-organizing, self-propagating infrastructure which allows the creation, discovery, commitment, and fulfillment of meaningful giving opportunities within a trusted environment.

Bill Moulton - Navagent is delivering powerful search and data visualization software that empowers you to get what you want and save time doing it. We provide professional and consumer solutions for time-saving personalized web browsing, smart web crawling, visual data mining, site previewing, event detection, custom alerts, and content retrieval. Our products reduce search time by over 80% in comparison to what it normally takes you to click through and evaluate search engine results.

Ruby Yeh - FolksNetwork develops community-building software for Interactive TV. ITV will become the means for the world's non-technical consumers who don't own PCs to join the Internet revolution. There are 1.5 billion TVs in the world and many of those can potentially become an Internet device, even in villages with no plumbing or electricity. FolksNetwork's vision is that once people from the far corners of the earth can connect to each other, individual-to-individual, we will begin to experience our mutual humanity and the potential for each person to make a difference.

February 17, 2003 - 4:00 pm PDT