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 Concepts 
Has only one owner, with a valid e-mail address.
Is fully transportable, identified by a unique ID capable to trascend time and space.
May have an expiration date and can be valid on scheduled and contextual periods of time.
Can contain a subject and body, like an e-mail, but they can be expressed in many languages.
Can be digitally signed.
Can bear any "attachments".
Can also act as a container of any number of information pieces, in a hierarchical way.
May contain one or many links to otheer pieces in many different ways.
 
 History and proyects 
A little of History
The PandoraBox© Project begun about two years ago.

Me, Marcelo with my friend and current partner Andy, spent many nights, with a beer in hand, analyzing and creating a new data model in order to describe anything from real to imaginable at near human scale. And more, this description should make sense to both, a person and a machine. Our goal was to enable anybody to create fast and effortlessly, with any available device, this little information chunks, and publish them without any style or design constrains. All pieces should contain some common properties along with other specific to the nature of the described stuff.

We created also the concept of containers, in order to store them, and also defined the access and search procedures. Then we designed a browser to access and show them in some way, deciding by the way, that a link should accumulate information rather than jumping around.

In this way, our data model was created, an now we are headed to give it a try in the real world.


PandoraBox© and Ericsson©
The compact nature of our information pieces, makes them ideal to be used with mobile devices.
Also, the easyest way to access an information using a cellphone, is dialing a number.
¿What number?, very simple, a phone number.
The Ericsson Mobility World South Latin America gave us the resources to develop PandoraBox© using GSM/GPRS + WAP1.2 cellphones.

Our concern was how to put Pandora closer to the user. From there the idea arouse of a special dialing sequence. In other words, by adding a # sign to a normally dialed number, we can tell the phone system that this, is no longer a phone call, instead this is a data enquiry. The limitation resides in that the whole actual phone subsystem (like the Ericsson© AXE) needed to be re-engineered.
Ericsson gave us the needed help to accomplish this. Finally we signed an agreement to allow Pandora to work on every cellphone system, as long as Ericsson is the Cell-Backbone provider.

Here is our thank-you to Ericsson Mobility World South Latin America.


PandoraBox© what is next?
Store Pandora numbers in your cellphone in order to forward them later.
SAT (Sim Application Toolkit) Pandora Access with WAP.
Pandora Information exchange between cellphones.
Access to hear and record voice "attachments" with the cellphone.
PandoraBox© working over PSTN phone network.

We know that there is a lot to do and a lot to learn out there.