119980 Resource 79668 1071 1071 1143354687310 1143355988789 Controlled Les Squire's, at EntConnect 2006, on Walking Orbit.

Les has been a great help to EntConnect, helping us to communicate through our list serve.

<p>by John Gaudio,</p><p>(Written as he spoke, I'll try to fill in the details later.)</p><p>Les is working with something new called Walking Orbit.</p><p>Health software is something very special.&nbsp; It helps to determine what we eat and how we live.&nbsp; It's a cooperative effort with people all over the world.</p><p>Les is also working on complementary currency projects.&nbsp; It's like a babysitting pool that gets ratcheted up.&nbsp; Les is the head of IT for the complementary currency project.</p><p>Imagine that with the Internet we no longer need banks.&nbsp; Expand the babysitting model to include forty million people by paying someone on the Internet with non currency currency.&nbsp; One example is frequent flyer miles.&nbsp; In Thailand you can pay your hospital bill in frequent flyer miles.&nbsp; (At about a tenth the cost it would otherwise cost.)</p><p>Imagine an alternative way of paying one another.&nbsp; Something called a &quot;Universal Currency&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Money 2.0 perhaps ;-)&quot;&nbsp; It's time for a &quot;new money.&quot;</p><p>How many are using Skype?&nbsp; Les spends 5-6 hours a day on the &quot;phone&quot; with Skype, including conference calls with five to six people.&nbsp; It also makes it possible to transfer files and other information.</p><p>Les looks at the client as his employees.&nbsp; If they want something they send the programmer &quot;tickets.&quot;</p><p /><p>While the company is really just Les and his wife, he effectively has sixty &quot;employees&quot; and commonly interacts with forty of them on a given day.</p><p>Les' wife is teaching health classes over A Skype connection.&nbsp; It's a new way of doing business.</p><p>After several years of pessimism Les is finding that things are coming very much alive.</p><p>Any group can print their own money.&nbsp; One organization prints &quot;In Ithica we trust&quot; on their currency.&nbsp; The IRS says that if you provide professional services, and that barter is also taxable.</p><p>Les also offered to help any of us at EntConnect to get familiar with Skype.&nbsp; Download it at Skype.com and get in touch with Les at <a href="mailto:lsquires@wwdn.com">lsquires@wwdn.com</a>.</p><p>Thanks again, Les, for all your help.</p> 10 application/xml false alternative currency EntConnect 2006 John Gaudio Les Squires Skype Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; MyIE2; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) 64.140.1.226 64.140.1.226 johngaudio false true false false true 176085 false false true false false false true 79668 blog blogsite/ABetterBlogsite/web