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The Power of Webble World and How to Utilize It
Micke Kuwahara
Meme Media Laboratory, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
mkuwahara@meme.hokudai.ac.jp
Abstract.
Webble World is a web-based environment where everything are
Webble objects. Stand-alone objects that may be organized and manipulated
freely into simple gadgets and/or complex applications, either by attaching to or
detaching from, completely inside the browser with mainly standard mouse
operations. All that is required by the user is a pursue of a dream and a bucket
of creativity with a pinch of a mindset that views the environment as merely
parts of the whole, and these parts are themselves just a bunch of smaller parts
loosely connected. With that in the travel bag the journey to become a Webble
application developer is afoot. Digging deep into the vast repository of Webble
Objects, grab the ones that seem to fit your inner picture and start building
anything from games, data analyzer systems, map visualizations, web tools,
web sites, data managers and much, much more. This paper will demonstrate
the structure of Webble World environment, how to access and enjoy the rich
library of Webbles and applications produced during the last years and how to
learn to self become a Webble World contributor.
Keywords:
Meme Media Objects, Customize, Configure, Web, Share,
Distribute, Resource, Interact, Participate, Federation, e-learning.
1
Introduction
This paper will put its main focus on thoroughly explaining what Webble World and a
Webble really is, mainly on a theoretical and technical level but to put things in focus
and perspective we will start by giving a background story to its birth and there also
include some of the more philosophical and non-technical angles.
1.1
The Philosophy and Goal
Webbles are based on the philosophy of memes, a word which is coined by Richard
Dawkins [9], that every thought and all knowledge which humans shares and which
flows between us, may collide with other thoughts and knowledge and then reproduce
or mutate, all in favor of survival and adaptation. The meme is a paraphrase which is
supposed to make us see that human knowledge and cultural expressions are like
genes in the way they evolve.
The idea of the meme has stimulated the research on how to improve the digital
form of human knowledge to better fit the meme description so that knowledge may
