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Software based on the loose communication of a small island
Island Wisdom, Coded in Java. "If Friday's boat from St. Mary was canceled, there might be six people in the village that needed to know. Armstrong found consistently they would all have that information within hours, even without a formal distribution system, and few uninterested people would be burdened with the knowledge. From studying how this and other situations played out, Armstrong formulated a set of fundamental principles on how people communicate. Now Armstrong is readying a productivity tool that he hopes will put those precepts into action. Called Trampoline, the program will integrate with a company's existing desktop and enterprise server applications, sitting quietly on a company's network and vacuuming in e-mail, files, spreadsheets and anything else it can find."

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Posted by Richard on April 6, 2006 09:51 AM