InvoicePlane is a superb tool that I regularly use for writing, sending and tracking of the invoices that I send to my clients: https://invoiceplane.com/

I wish it had a proper API, though.

I was using InvoicePlane but then switched to InvoiceNinja for the accessible RESTful API! There's even a converter for it Plane -> Ninja.

Another similar project is Mycroft: https://mycroft.ai/get-mycroft/

Mycroft seems much more capable as an assistant.

This reminded me of a project by Sun Microsystems called Project Wonderland. They created a virtual world in which you could attend meetings and look at slides together with other avatars – although this was not in VR.

Here is a demo video: https://youtu.be/-CFOGDBFKrk

If you want to know exactly what Volkswagen did in their software for the emission control unit, I recommend this talk from last week's Chaos Communication Congress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZSU1FPDiao

Another community radio from Berlin (with a real FM frequency): http://www.88vier.de/

There is an art installation that uses cathode ray tubes: http://www.alpha60.de/art/love_letters/

I guess that they probably don't use the tubes as the actual memory. But it looks extremely cool.

There will be a Neo4j hackathon for beginners in Berlin, Germany later today: http://www.meetup.com/graphdb-berlin/events/222114664/

Wow, I had the very same idea. But everyone I told the idea basically said: "email is a horrible protocol stack, you don't want to build anything on top of it" or just something like "email is dead". I still think it is good idea.

Like many things, it's a fantastic idea for people and a poor idea for business. The main advantage is that it keeps business out exactly opposite of how facebook invites it in and ruins everything.

email is a fan-fucking-tastic protocol stack BTW. It's detractors all want to do something the user doesn't want or need.

"fan-fucking-tastic protocol". I agree completely. it's time for our systems to centralize email as a first-class citizen and treat it as among the main ways to interact with the system.

Ping me at sethjgore@gmail.com if you agree. I'm organizing something and I want to have people who think email is still underused onboard.

Are you pursuing your idea? I am organizing a team focused on building a system that centralizes email as an essential mode of interaction.

Ping me at sethjgore@gmail.com if interested.

I also buy that it looks like a great idea, and will like to see how far it can get.

How far do you want it to get? Ping me at sethjgore@gmail.com with the answer. I have something under the wraps that centralizes email and all messaging into a form of interaction.

yes it can: import js js.globals.document.getDocumentById("...")

Yes, in his talk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiBfOFqDIAI&t=1355 Ryan Kelly already showed a Python 3 version of pypy.js