the open sky vision

[makoConstruct]

In essence, the open sky model is about visualizing data. There are APIs for altering the data and APIs for visualizing it. Once you apply these visualization APIs to data that resides on someone else's instance, as long as you're still viewing it in your shell, or as long as there is a wire connecting it to something user-facing, the system updates it in realtime, and you have a web app right there.

It makes it as easy as possible for an adept to examine, search, monitor and interact with the exposed data of their peers.

A chat app would emerge trivially from these APIs, and they would open the way for a whole lot of other things we couldn't have anticipated.

I'll show you a series of screenshots that'll give you an idea of what it'll look like when that first chat app is made. It would be imperfect, but you'd have something workable with less than 10 lines of code. I have to emphasize: The system is not designed just for chat. This just happens to be something you'd be able to do with a framework that thinks in terms of representing remote data right out of the box. We will get much more than chat if we build this. I still feel like, even if there was something horribly wrong with you and you didn't want to explore those open skies, this would still be a fairly reasonable way to start building a communication app and experimenting with our ideas.

View the mockup, zoom to fit: http://makopool.com/openskies.svg

Edit: Apologies if the font looks like crap in this, I just realized you wont have economica, I should pathify the text, one sec
Editt: Okay never mind. I pathified all of the text and now it's 10MB. It's up, but cloudflare is caching the old version. I hope it doesn't look too fucky.
Edittt: Apparently the svg doesn't even render on windows?...?.??? Here's a fucking png http://makopool.com/openskies.png