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PARC Meshin's smart search unclutters collaboration
- TAGS:CCN, CDN, collaboration, Content-Centric Networking, e-mail, email, enterprise, enterprise search, Insider Content, Meshin, PARC, search, Van Jacobson, Xerox, Xerox Parc, XRX
- IT TOPICS:Desktop Apps, Emerging Technology, Enterprise Apps, Internet, Networking, Privacy, Security
By Richi Jennings. June 23, 2011.
Do you talk to several different people during a typical business day? Do you talk to them via several different media, such as email, phone, SMS, IM, Twitter or Facebook? Of course you do; perhaps Meshin is for you. It's developed in the same Xerox (NYSE:XRX) PARC lab as its Content-Centric Networking research effort. Let's take a look, in The Long View...
Meshin aims to bring together the siloed communications media we all use, and present it as one, coherent, searchable whole. Meshin isn't the first technology to attempt this, but previous attempts haven't managed to live up to their promises. Enter PARC -- the Xerox subsidiary that, while developing the Alto desktop computer, invented many of the computer user interface ideas that typify Windows, MacOS, Gnome, etc.
The best way I can describe Meshin is as a contextually-aware search engine. It's a whatnow? Read on...
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