Chris Jablonski of ZDnet recently posted an analysis of MAYA Design's Information Commons work.

He writes:

In the eyes of its creators, the World Wide Web was never designed to take on the role as the be-all end-all architecture for a truly distributed global information system. But while large vendors, standards groups and technologists have grown dependent on the Web and treat it that way, some researchers are taking a revolutionary approach to the problem and addressing it at the very core of information design. A newly published white paper from Harbor Research (a firm specializing in pervasive computing), entitled Designing the Future of Information, The Internet beyond the Web looks at two initiatives—the "Information Commons” of Maya Design, and "Internet Zero" from MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms.

I work on this project and am happy to see it starting to get some attention. There are some cool community projects in this space that will be going public soon and will start to expose some of the applications for our architecture.