---
title: "3Degrees looks cool"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/2/25/3degrees-looks-cool.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/2/25/3degrees-looks-cool.html"
published: "2003-02-25T06:22:00"
updated: "2003-02-25T06:22:00"
tags: []
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Following up on last week's posting , the ThreeDegrees software is now available in beta form. I just finished the product tour and am dl'ing as we speak. Looks pretty cool/fun, but I don't know if it's going to be…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# 3Degrees looks cool

By Roy Osherove February 25, 2003

**Historical article** · Originally published February 25, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

_Following up on_ [_last week's posting_](http://dotnetweblogs.com/dmarsh/posts/2510.aspx)_, the_ [_ThreeDegrees_](http://www.threedegrees.com/) _software is now available in beta form. I just finished the product tour and am dl'ing as we speak. Looks pretty cool/fun, but I don't know if it's going to be revolutionary._

\[via [Drew Marsh](http://dotnetweblogs.com/dmarsh/archive/02242003.aspx#2889)\]

looking at the download page:

_"_

<table><tbody><tr><td>Software Requirements</td></tr><tr><td></td><td><ul><li>Windows XP Home Edition or Professional with Windows XP Service Pack 1 (English OS Only)</li><li>MSN® Messenger for Windows version 5.0 or higher</li><li>Windows XP Peer-to-Peer Update (Q810007)</li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table>

"

**I wonder if that means that This uses the recently releases** [**Peer-to-peer SDK**](http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c3056f5a-f6ee-4147-b7c1-146064710f22) **from MSFT..**


---

## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

### Social

- X: https://x.com/royosherove
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/

### Contact

- Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7

### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/