PRECEDENTS
A list of some of the projects I came across that relate (one way or another) to Geode -- design, technology, concept, etc.).

BumpTop (www.bumptop.com)
3D desktop environment - [Windows]
FacetMap (http://research.microsoft.com/vibe/projects/FacetMap.aspx)
interactive metadata grouping model - [Platform neutral]
Disk Inventory X (www.derlien.com)
file visualization using treemap technique - [Mac]
History Flow (http://www.research.ibm.com/visual/projects/history_flow/)
visualization of edits made to Wikipedia pages - [Web]
html graph (http://www.aharef.info/static/htmlgraph/)
visualization of hierarchy on an online directory tree - [Web]
Hyperonyme (http://updatepixels.net/2007/2007/hyperonyme.html)
3D visualization of hard drive contents - [Windows]
ILOG Discovery (http://www2.ilog.com/preview/Discovery/)
multi-faceted visualization platform - [Windows]
Liquifile (www.liquifile.info)
Finder-like file browser with integrated visualization techniques - [Mac]
One Million Items (http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/VisuMillion/)
dense, large-scale visualization of objects using treemap technique - [Windows]
Piccolo (http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/piccolo/)
demonstration of ZUI techniques - [Platform neutral]
photo mesa (http://www.windsorinterfaces.com/photomesa.shtml)
zoomable image browser - [Windows]
The Pond (http://www.sics.se/ice/projects/pond/)
interactive tactile media browser - [Windows]
SequoiaView (www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview)
file visualization using treemap technique - [Windows]
Slife (www.slifelabs.com/slife/ )
system for tracking application usage - [Mac & Windows]
SpaceTree (http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/spacetree/)
node link tree browser - [Platform neutral]
Spotlook (http://code.google.com/p/spotlook/)
light visualization file metadata - [Mac]
SoftSub (www.c5corp.com/softsub/)
abstract visualization of hard drive contents - [Mac & Windows]
Tactile 3D (www.tactile3d.com)
visualizes the hard drive as an immersive 3D virtual space - [Mac & Windows]
Topicscape (www.topicscape.com)
visualization of user documents using mindmapping - [Windows]
Xanadu (www.xanadu.com)
Theodore Nelson's project for a new kind of file system