http://www.wetmachine.com/itf en-us Nucleus CMS v3.23 © Weblog http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.wetmachine.com/itfnucleus/wetmachine_icon.jpg http://www.wetmachine.com/itf http://www.wetmachine.com/itf/item/1583 Interesting juxtaposition between these two from overnight:A Rocketboom syndicated TV-babe declares our virtual worlds as one of three reasons for her to go to California(!) among the far-from-product stuff at Intel Research Day.Appalachian State ... history: external milestones and context http://www.wetmachine.com/itf/item/1583 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:03:38 -0400 http://www.wetmachine.com/itf/item/1580 People are often pretty good at walking into a room they are familiar with, and instantly knowing what has changed. That's pretty useful for 3D operations team rooms. But what if things have been “redecorated” — moved around for... workflow http://www.wetmachine.com/itf/item/1580 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:08:14 -0400 http://www.wetmachine.com/itf/item/1577 I find two of Microsoft's current ad campaigns interesting. One asserts that computer technology is all about connecting people, particularly synchronously (as opposed to asynchronous stuff like email, file sharing, and wikis). If you replaced th... metaphysics http://www.wetmachine.com/itf/item/1577 Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:56:10 -0400 http://www.wetmachine.com/itf/item/1569 We've created ordinary http URLs that teleport you to places in-world in Qwaq Forums, Being programmers, we could not resist the pun of calling them QRLs. The most common uses today are: meet me here – telling someone where to meet, in IM, ema... workflow http://www.wetmachine.com/itf/item/1569 Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:58:04 -0400 http://www.wetmachine.com/itf/item/1565 Related to the URL addressing concepts discussed here, there is the question of how to denote places within a 3D world. I really like having names for these. A typically engineering way to map out locations in a model is with coordinates. There... workflow http://www.wetmachine.com/itf/item/1565 Sun, 7 Jun 2009 23:56:37 -0400 http://www.wetmachine.com/itf/item/1558 I'd been wondering whether anyone on our company's Board of Directors knew who I was. I know a couple but it turns out most didn't. But just before the last board meeting I ran into a director that I'm sure I had never been introduced to. He said... General http://www.wetmachine.com/itf/item/1558 Thu, 4 Jun 2009 16:14:00 -0400 http://www.wetmachine.com/itf/item/1554 When Alan Kay's team at Xerox created the overlapping window user interface, they were working for a document company. Everything was organized around documents mimicking paper, sitting in folders except when being operated on by one application o... meta-medium http://www.wetmachine.com/itf/item/1554 Tue, 2 Jun 2009 22:40:00 -0400 http://www.wetmachine.com/itf/item/1553 There weren't any effective drum machines when I was in high school. Except, of course for Neil Peart. Compare Animusic: history: external milestones and context http://www.wetmachine.com/itf/item/1553 Sun, 31 May 2009 16:47:00 -0400 http://www.wetmachine.com/itf/item/1557 We've all seen the cartoons of people sitting next to each other in silence and texting each other. I just picked up my daughter from a concert where she did exactly that. At work, we meet for a few hours in-world at least twice a week. Usuall... workflow http://www.wetmachine.com/itf/item/1557 Sat, 30 May 2009 15:25:43 -0400 http://www.wetmachine.com/itf/item/1552 How do we improve the breed of collaborative programming tools? Should we have spectator programming competitions on the Internet? (The people who like those things only watch for the crashes!) I don't think there's a good commercial driver ... Philosophical business mumbo-jumbo http://www.wetmachine.com/itf/item/1552 Fri, 29 May 2009 13:03:00 -0400