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Foil 32 Remarks on Micro Tango I

From Tango Futures: XML for Portals, Web-based Collaboration and Distance Education Rice University Tango Tutorial -- October 18 1999. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 Two features present in all future such collaboration systems will be incorporated
  • Events will be serialized in terms of XML
  • Micro Tango Interactive clients will be designed to respond to events that are generated either synchronously or asynchronously
2 In Synchronous case, interesting Tango applications include
  • Chat Rooms
  • White board for simple picture
  • Tango mail
  • Quizzes
  • Possibly shared browser (at least to record URL)
3 Asynchronous events of interest include
  • Ordinary mail
  • Events generated by computing portal such as job completion, errors etc.

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