FluidNexus

Just a quick note to say that Fluid Nexus was one of the winners of this year’s memfest competition in the “beyond” category. Congrats to the other winners, and thanks to Bruno, Luis, and Monica for their help on the project at the inclusiva-net meeting!

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Two more blog postings about Fluid Nexus to report: the first is on a site discussing the decentralization of Twitter, and the other is written in Russian and from a person who seemed to have a similar idea. It’s great to see all of these posts and discussion about decentralized message passing.

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Jamie Wells, from the mobilestance.com website, recently wrote a really great article entitled Andoid App ‘Fluid Nexus’ Aims to Move Mobile Messaging Off the Grid about the possibilities of Fluid Nexus in the world of marketing, a space that I have not thought much about. As I spoke about at the workshop, I’m […]

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I’ve been working on porting Fluid Nexus to the Google Android platform, partially, yes, because of their challenge, which would enable to work on the project full-time for a couple of months, but also because I want to support a platform that aims to try and open up the world of mobile phones. Here’s […]

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… and here it is, the beginnings of Fluid Nexus as ported to Google Android. More to come very soon…

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I haven’t been keeping up with all of the developments, but evidently Apple recently released the iPhone SDK. While searching for other things (regarding google android) I read a post that states that background applications are not allowed using the iPhone SDK. Since Fluid Nexus requires two background processes to be running at […]

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As part of a submission to the Prix Ars Electronica I created two new videos…well, more slideshows with narration than videos. The first one is about some of the critiques of network views of reality that underpin the project, while the second is about the technical details of the project.

Here are Ogg Theora […]

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The workshop is over, but not the project—more information about it soon.

But here is the final video about the project that I showed at the end of the workshop.

Fluid Nexus Project Video from Nick Knouf on Vimeo.

And here’s the final presentation, in OpenOffice format.

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The video is available (but warning! It’s over 150MB; streaming version coming soon). Also, check out the public subversion repository, as well as the Fluid Nexus website itself.

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I wanted to make it to one of the election rallies celebrating the victory of the PSOE in the Spanish elections that took place today, not only to see rallies in a different country, but also to get some footage of large crowds for my documentation video. I wandered about, looking and listening for […]

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