On friday a contingent of the Hursley Emerging tech crew (a good few of who are founder members of eightbar) gathered in a Hampshire field to have a rocket launching competition. Fellow eightbar Rob Smart has produced this video of the entire event, its features all the key moments including Dave CJ’s rocket complete with [...]

We had a Hackday in IBM today, it was the 5th year of having a day when people just find a project and blitz it for a day.
The aim is not always completion, but starting and sharing.
I decided to try a proof of concept around augmented reality on my N95 using Python.
Here is a screen [...]

In a prestigous awards ceremony held in Hursley this afternoon the results of the IBM wide voting in various categories for blogs and social media were announced. Eightbar won the category of “Best IBM related external blog”. Props go to James Taylor for getting this whole thing going, but most of all thanks to all [...]

I moderated a panel on virtual worlds, games and social networks at the Virtual Worlds 2008 conference today. I recently put out a request for questions here on Eightbar, and got a great response. Here are my (very poor and woefully incomplete) recollections of the event. I’m hoping to get a copy of the audio [...]

Both Ian and I are (for once) in the same place for much of this week at the Virtual Worlds Forum conference. I’m actually speaking at the ‘harnessing enterprise virtual worlds‘ pre-event workshop today, as part of the following lineup:

Steve Prentice (Gartner) - What are enterprise virtual worlds?
Ron Edwards (Ambient Performance) - Harnessing [...]

Although I’m missing the conference in San Jose this week, I am watching the breaking news from the event with rabid interest. First, we have the news itself. There was the official IBM release of course, and it hit the official Linden Lab blog too.

“Linden Lab and IBM will collaborate on integrating virtual worlds and [...]

Back from a couple of days at the Serious Virtual Worlds conference in Coventry. The speakers and their topics were:
Thursday 13th September

David Wortley, Serious Games Institute - introduction
Christian Renaud, Cisco - Getting serious about virtual worlds
Fabrizio Cardinali, CEO Giunti Labs, chair European Learning Industries - Innovating learning in a flat, virtual [...]

London, Tuesday 23rd to Friday 26th October. 3pointD already has the press release, so I won’t bother reproducing the speaker list or even the programme; you can just as easily get them from the conference website.
The speaker list is a star-studded list of dozens of thought virtual world thought leaders. Ren Reynolds (no relation) will be [...]

As Ian recently posted, we attended the book launch party on Tuesday for Tim Guest’s new book, Second Lives.
It was interesting and fitting that there was another book launch party tonight, and this one was in Second Life.

This one was held at the Elysian Isle sim in Second Life. At this one, unlike in [...]

I spoke at the Blogs and Social Media Forum yesterday.
The agenda had me slated to join Ben Edwards (publisher of Economist.com), Jem Stone (Executive Producer, BBC New Media and Technology), Adriana Lukas (Big Blog Company) and Myles Runham (General Manager, Europe, Ask.com) for the keynote panel.
Euan Semple, who chaired the event, kicked off the day by getting [...]