I spent some time looking at the technology from qwaq.com. They have built an application that is designed to support virtual teams by creating a “place” online for co-workers to meet. Think Second Life, but restricted and augmented for the purpose of facilitating online meetings and discussions. There are times [...]
The Internet is generally thought of as a tool that is used by organizations to transact business, or by individuals to communicate, research or get entertained. For those of us that are concerned about the sustainability of the Earths resources, and our ability to support billions of people at the [...]
Last week Google announced that they were pulling one of their latest services off the Web. Google Lively was their first attempt to play in the virtual world space. The concept seemed to me to be a poor attempt to let users create their own rooms where they could hold [...]
Our mobile phones are quickly replacing the laptop as the screen of choice for the digerati. More and more can be accomplished on the mobile phone platform that we used to reserve for the laptop with a high-speed connection to the Internet. Today our mobile phones are coming equipped with [...]
For months now I have been talking about virtual worlds like Second Life and Entropia Universe, and I always end the discussion by mentioning that it is only a matter of time until Google gets into the act. Last week they announced their first foray into the virtual space with Lively. Although I was [...]
If you ever happen to be on Second Life and see this person, his name is Scottk Telling. In other words, this is me. I have been spending more time in the synthetic world lately and thought I would offer a few observations just as an update. Without a lot [...]
Wordpress, a very substantial blogging engine and CMS, has recently announced that all Wordpress.com hosted blogs now have 3 GB of storage, up from the 50 MB they previously had. This is huge news. Blogger, the Google offering, today hands out 1 GB, and to get 3 GB from TypePad [...]
So, I had a strange experience this week because I was in a meeting with a few bankers and I started talking about Second Life, and started to tell them about the banks that are opened there. Half of them had never heard of it, so I logged in and [...]
Open Platforms are driving an age of innovation like nothing we have ever seen. They are quietly going to change the way we do business so you better pay attention... In the last few months we have had a tsunami of software platforms opened up for use, or announced. Facebook [...]