About   Blogs: Wetmachine Main | Econoklastic | Inventing the Future | Tales of the Sausage Factory Archives  Jump to navigation Where We've Been The Teleplace release is a mature application for getting work done in realtime collaboration with others. This makes a good occasion to look at some direct progenitors. The first two are the 1994 Interactive Collaboration Envi... Read Full Story

About   Blogs: Wetmachine Main | Econoklastic | Inventing the Future | Tales of the Sausage Factory Archives  Jump to navigation The Colony Our company CTO, David Smith, has been the principle architect of Croquet since the beginning. Long before that, he wrote the first commercial 3D game for a personal computer. Here's some video (made with an actual video camera on old M... Read Full Story

About   Blogs: Wetmachine Main | Econoklastic | Inventing the Future | Tales of the Sausage Factory Archives  Jump to navigation A Brief Response To Richrd Bennet's New Paper I salute Richard Bennet's new paper Designed for Change, in which he traces the engineering history of the end-to-end principle. It is a serious paper and deserving of serious response. Unfortunately... Read Full Story

About   Blogs: Wetmachine Main | Econoklastic | Inventing the Future | Tales of the Sausage Factory Archives  Jump to navigation AT&T; Falls Back on “It's All About Google” Strategy For some years now, the opponents of Network Neutrality have had the same basic fallback strategy: When all else fails, make it about Google. So no surprise that AT&T;, in a lette... Read Full Story

About   Blogs: Wetmachine Main | Econoklastic | Inventing the Future | Tales of the Sausage Factory Archives  Jump to navigation Some promising noises out of the FCC and Congress lately--even from President Obama-- about preserving Net Neutrality. However, the Telco & other retrograde forces out there have lots of money, lobbyists, and influence. Free Press's “Sa... Read Full Story

About   Blogs: Wetmachine Main | Econoklastic | Inventing the Future | Tales of the Sausage Factory Archives  Jump to navigation The Treachery of Names Would any other smell as sweet? We changed the name of the company today. The geeks formerly known as Qwaq are now Teleplace. I like it. Qwaq was a kind of goofy Google/Twitter/Yahoo sort of thing into which you could ... Read Full Story

About   Blogs: Wetmachine Main | Econoklastic | Inventing the Future | Tales of the Sausage Factory Archives  Jump to navigation Update on Program Access — looks like FCC rolls lucky 7 at DC Cir. Casino. Wall St. J. reports the court was fairly deferential to the FCC's predictive judgment. That's good. But it would be nice if the D.C. Circuit were less of a crap sho... Read Full Story

About   Blogs: Wetmachine Main | Econoklastic | Inventing the Future | Tales of the Sausage Factory Archives  Jump to navigation Under the Radar posted at 16:13:00 on 09/21/09 by Stearns - Category: history: external milestones and context Comments Add Comments Email Updates Want to get updates when someone comments on this story? Click here to manage su... Read Full Story

About   Blogs: Wetmachine Main | Econoklastic | Inventing the Future | Tales of the Sausage Factory Archives  Jump to navigation Project Collaboration at Intel Yesterday I posted an example of a Virtual Operations Center, which is turning out to be one of the classic enterprise use cases for virtual worlds today. Above is a tiny blurb representing another, more common cas... Read Full Story

About   Blogs: Wetmachine Main | Econoklastic | Inventing the Future | Tales of the Sausage Factory Archives  Jump to navigation Operations Center +1 David Smith made this video a year ago, showing how you could have: virtual world objects automatically populated by real world objects; scripted behavior for those interactive objects that: gives realtime display of real w... Read Full Story