Today I met up with Inne ten Have of Darwine (weblog). Darwine creates very cool webapps for learning organizations, group-forming and creating shared language and culture. We talked for two hours, and it was a pleasure to meet a coder who totally gets the psychological and communicational aspects of group dynamics and learning. His background in gaming, where, as he said, the threshold for using new technology is low, and the requirements on the user experience are extremely high, serves him well in that respect.
A lot of his ideas and work coincide in spirit with what my company is doing, as well as with the ideas the Dutch Connection is working on, so I intend to introduce him to both and see what the possibilities are. Kudos to Gerrit Visser for introducing us to eachother.