http://www.mirrorworlds.com/aboutus/
talks a good talk, included below.
Question: does a mirror world == an infosphere? I'll have to
investigate some more... but this sounds just way cool:
> Mirror Worlds Technologies, Inc. licenses the Lifestreams software
> technology, which replaces the desktop metaphor, the web browser, and
> the corporate network with a universally accessible, chronologically
> ordered stream of information that fits naturally into today's
> network-centric environment. The Lifestreams system includes a
> ubiquitous and universal storage system, integrated web-browser-like
> searching and filtering, and an all-encompassing data model that
> integrates all the information a user or corporation handles --- email,
> bookmarks, reminders, contact information, financial data, and so on.
> Lifestreams also features a customizable plug-in architecture for
> summarizing information, and a "ROMable" thin-client and server
> architecture that will run over a wide range of electronic devices.
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Mission
Mirror Worlds Technologies, Inc. is an applications technology company
that focuses on developing interfaces, software architectures and tools
for the emerging network, information and distributed computing markets.
History
Mirror Worlds is a privately held company that was founded in 1997 by
Eric Freeman, David Gelernter, and the members of the original
Lifestreams team at Yale University to apply a decade's worth of
research experience --- in distributed computing, network architectures,
and information systems --- to commercial tools. The company's vision
and name derive from Gelernter's 1991 book Mirror Worlds: Or the Day
Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox: How It Will Happen and What It
Will Mean, which describes many software technologies that have already
become influential in today's increasingly network-centric computing
environments. Lifestreams, a patent-pending technology exclusively
licensed from Yale University, forms the basis for the company's first
products. The company is now expanding its management team, aggressively
building products incorporating the Lifestreams technology, and pursuing
partnerships for rapid expansion. The company will annouce its first
products in late fall 1997. The company plans to follow the Lifestreams
products with advanced tools for distributed computing.
Products
Mirror Worlds Technologies, Inc. licenses the Lifestreams software
technology, which replaces the desktop metaphor, the web browser, and
the corporate network with a universally accessible, chronologically
ordered stream of information that fits naturally into today's
network-centric environment. The Lifestreams system includes a
ubiquitous and universal storage system, integrated web-browser-like
searching and filtering, and an all-encompassing data model that
integrates all the information a user or corporation handles --- email,
bookmarks, reminders, contact information, financial data, and so on.
Lifestreams also features a customizable plug-in architecture for
summarizing information, and a "ROMable" thin-client and server
architecture that will run over a wide range of electronic devices.
Markets
Lifestreams provides a simple but powerful software solution for
managing information and electronic events in both consumer and
corporate environments. Some examples of products and services to which
Lifestreams is relevant:
* The Internet and online systems: Web browsers, ISPs.
* Consumer products: Game machines, TVs, set-top systems, network
computers, appliances.
* Communication products: telephones, PDAs, answering machines,
paging systems.
* Computer Industry: third party licenses and development programs.
* Corporate: labeling and branding, vertical markets
(e.g., medical, legal).
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