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Webble World is the latest generation of IntelligentPad implementations that is fully available online for any individual or organization interested in using it. It is a meme media objects environment that allows users to develop rich software applications for the web, even without any skills of programming, but instead with simple basic mouse operations which is used to configure and arrange these meme media objects, known as Webbles, in ways that may create various types of complex behaviors and thus form full-fledged applications. It is intended to be inviting and used by the general public as a whole, skilled programmers and their grandmas alike, as well as academics and corporations. It is a framework for learning and improving, a knowledge federation where humanity can collect their shared skills in software application development. But with this power comes the responsibility to build and develop, not just for you and a few chosen, but for the entire world at all times. In order to support a useful and open federation of meme media objects the developer must try to get into the head of every possible future user of his component, and the users need to see that Webble systems is a network of objects with little or no central control but instead a cooperation of independent parts. To fully appreciate Webble World the user need to adapt a certain mindset, and it is that mindset this paper will try to explore.
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Kuwahara, M., Tanaka, Y. (2013). The Mindset of a Webble World Citizen: Developing Applications in a Meme Media Environment. In: Arnold, O., Spickermann, W., Spyratos, N., Tanaka, Y. (eds) Webble Technology. WWS 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 372. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38836-1_5
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