http://www.wetmachine.com/itf en-us Nucleus CMS v3.50 © 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/1838 I remember how I felt when the media announced the fait accompli that W would be the next president. Twice. This is worse. General http://www.wetmachine.com/itf/item/1838 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:22:54 -0500 http://www.wetmachine.com/itf/item/1808 Ever since Shelly's “Frankenstein”, the distinguishing characteristic of science fiction (as opposed to fantasy and other literature) has been the postulation that beings can change the circumstances of the world in which they live. We... metaphysics http://www.wetmachine.com/itf/item/1808 Tue, 5 Jan 2010 12:44:06 -0500 http://www.wetmachine.com/itf/item/1678 During the post-9/11 dot com bubble-bursting, I worked at a dying company that had an “offsite” guided brainstorming session on how to save the business. I think it was on a disused floor of our rapidly emptying Tech Square office buil... workflow http://www.wetmachine.com/itf/item/1678 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:52:07 -0400 http://www.wetmachine.com/itf/item/1677 Almost two years ago, I claimed that virtual worlds could help the physical environment, and it seems that there are now some measurable effects (if arguable as to how to attribute the causes). Since then, techies of various stripes have been ... history: external milestones and context http://www.wetmachine.com/itf/item/1677 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:19:03 -0400 http://www.wetmachine.com/itf/item/1659 In December, 2006, flying phalli disrupted a Second Life press conference at a CNET event reflectively dedicated to making money in SL. Two months later, US Presidential candidate John Edwards had his SL headquarters vandalized in a roughly sim... Philosophical business mumbo-jumbo http://www.wetmachine.com/itf/item/1659 Fri, 2 Oct 2009 11:00:00 -0400 http://www.wetmachine.com/itf/item/1657 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 Environment prototype b... history: external milestones and context http://www.wetmachine.com/itf/item/1657 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:52:00 -0400 http://www.wetmachine.com/itf/item/1656 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 Mac) of how... history: external milestones and context http://www.wetmachine.com/itf/item/1656 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:46:37 -0400 http://www.wetmachine.com/itf/item/1648 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 project whatever you wa... Philosophical business mumbo-jumbo http://www.wetmachine.com/itf/item/1648 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:23:19 -0400 http://www.wetmachine.com/itf/item/1646 This is five minutes of live demo and eight minutes of discussion at an Under the Radar conference last spring. It is a very info-dense presentation before specialized industry insiders. (There are lots of side references all around to Google ... history: external milestones and context http://www.wetmachine.com/itf/item/1646 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:13:00 -0400 http://www.wetmachine.com/itf/item/1645 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 case: Project Collaboration. Not... history: external milestones and context http://www.wetmachine.com/itf/item/1645 Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:12:20 -0400