quotes John Wilbanks: “We don’t have any idea how to solve cancer, so all we can do is increase the rate of discovery so as to increase the probability we’ll make a breakthrough.” - Daniel Mietchen from Bookmarklet

goes on: "The effort to apply modern collaboration tools to science may even increase the rate of discovery of innovations in collaboration!" - Daniel Mietchen

looking for the edit button to correct "stanards" and to chime in more directly. http://www.booki.cc/collabo... - Daniel Mietchen

Part 4 is at http://www.mushon.com/2010... . - Daniel Mietchen

"One might argue that Web 2.0 has popularized collaborative tools that have been earlier accessible only to a limited group of geeks. It is a valid point to make. Yet the early social platforms like IRC channels, Usenet and e-mail have been protocol based and were not owned by a single proprietor. Almost all of the current so called Web 2.0 platforms have been built on a centralized control model, locking their users to be dependent on a commercial tool. We do see a turn against this lock-in syndrome. The past year have seen a shift in attention towards open standards, interoperability and decentralized network architectures. The announcement of Google Wave is probably the most ambitious vision for a decentralized collaborative protocol coming from Silicon Valley. It is too early to say whether Wave's federated Open Source promise will catch on, but we already see the same alarming celebratory terminology propagated by the self-proclaimed social media gurus." - http://bit.ly/c7SlZS - Daniel Mietchen