http://blog.groundcrew.us a revolution in teamwork and play Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:19:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For technical reasons*, our groundcrew blog is now accessible at a new url: http://groundcrew.us/blog update your bookmarks and rss feeds! Look forward to lots of excitement--things are heating up. * we've switched from wordpress to jekyll. http://blog.groundcrew.us/2009/01/09/new-blog/ for immediate release GROUNDCREW VIEWER NOW OPEN SOURCE Citizen Logistics has released the source for their Viewer, the world's first realtime human coordination interface, under an Affero GPL license. The text messaging capability of cell phones will deeply change the structure of our economy, and our level of civic engagement, according to Joe ... http://blog.groundcrew.us/2008/11/28/groundcrew-viewer-now-open-source/ Ladies and Gentlemen, Behold! A revised interface for the Groundcrew Viewer, in preparation for the upcoming Northampton launch.  Check it out and put feedback in the comments! Over the next few days I'll be adding back in some missing features and some new wizardry around making wishes come true and summoning large squads. http://blog.groundcrew.us/2008/08/03/new-ui/ We have been accepted by AOL/AIM as an officially supported "commercial" AIM Bot. This makes it possible for us to address thousands or tens of thousands simultaneously over AIM and SMS, making much larger coordination efforts possible. We will likely collaborate with Twitter on some software for interfacing ... http://blog.groundcrew.us/2008/03/18/aim-bot-activated/ We've incorporated Citizen Logistics as a "Common Good Corporation". What does that mean? Well, at some point we want to expand rapidly. That means taking investment. But we don't want to let that compromise our values! When we do take investment, there will be a cap on ... http://blog.groundcrew.us/2008/03/18/common-good-corporate-structure/ Groundcrew was used recently as part of a theatrical performance, so as to incite the audience to participate. It most certainly worked-- hundreds of assignments went into the audience, and many real-time reports came back as audience members texted about what was going on all around them. photos We also ... http://blog.groundcrew.us/2008/03/17/lots-of-great-news/