junto is moving... and it's extremely exciting.
Junto is a concept for a global communications/collaboration platform. It starts with a simple interface, combining video chat with a text box and a twitter backchannel, all streaming in public, real-time. In Venessa's last post she even mentioned pivot.
Venessa Miemis is the inspiration and though she might not admit it... quite the mastermind behind it. Her twitter bio reads: futurist, philosopher, thought architect, metacog. MA candidate in Media Studies at The New School.
Venessa has not only brought together a great and much needed concept... conversations that matter, seen clearly in her letter to Tim Berners Lee, inventor of the world wide web, but she is also bringing together brilliantly innovative minds that are able to think and see past buzzwords and glitz to things that matter, and who are also able to make them happen.
Emily Cunningham, in her post, Me, We and Junto, cites that in formulating the ideas behind Junto, Vanessa modifies the Chatroulette model asking, Now what if instead of the “roulette” format, with two random stranger in a conversation for no good reason, what if we do this as purposeful dialogues between intelligent people to discuss big ideas?
#junto is certainly worth following, better yet - worth jumping in...
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