Dave Kamalsky of Linden Lab (formerly of IBM Almaden) pinged me to point out that they now have a new blog called Working Inworld. Now, I wouldn’t usually repost this kind of thing, but one particular post that caught my eye was the joint IBM / Linden Lab case study on the IBM Academy of [...]

In the “nothing new to eightbar readers” column – we’ve talked about this before and it was showed at Lotusphere 2009 – it looks like the Sametime 3D platform is now available for test by selected IBM clients. We don’t usually “do” press releases on eightbar, but this one is particularly interesting as it develops [...]

Today is a day of mixed emotions. Today I resigned from IBM having been there for 18 years, 19 if you count my year out from university. In all that time I have worked with some great people, and felt a tremendous sense of belonging. Its been quite a journey, both in technical education and [...]

Last night I was invited to speak to a very diverse class of MBA students and entrepreneurs at Babson as a guest (Thankyou Linda for the invite). The conversation of course happened in Second Life, and also happened to be around midnight my time. That in itself is almost routine now, though for a change [...]

Thankyou to AnnieOk for pointing me towards the video and articles here on the MIT Fluid interfaces that got such a good reception at TED 2009. This is brilliant work. You have to see this and go to wired to read the rest of the article. Projection, mixed with gesture and finger tracking, whilst looking [...]

Whilst we may have missed the advertizing-fest that is the US Superbowl, we do atleast get to see some of the great ideas courtesy of youtube. For me the most significant was this one. (Thanks Roo for finding it first :) ) It speaks for itself, but does have some subtle little niceties. What is [...]

I moved offices today and having a bright new whiteboard I could not leave it clean for long. Its not really a mindmap, just some association of thoughts and bits of linkages. I am sure it will alter, but right now this is what was in my head in a mad flurry. The underlying red [...]

A new video recently arrived on youtube featuring the voices of many of the people who work in the Digital Convergence/3d internet emerging business unit. It shows real integration between various elements of a regular workflow, including the realtime data feeds into a representation of a data centre. It also shows some of the work [...]

BoingBoing has an article linking to danah boyd’s now public PHD thesis on Teen Sociality online. What I have read so far has been very interesting, I was looking forward to seeing it as I got to meet danah at the Handheld learning 2008 event where she made some great points around the evolving of [...]

Thanks again to Malburns for spotting this and tweeting it. Rivers Run Red have released an example of an application layered onto immersive workspaces in Second Life. In this case it is around retail planning and visualization. This is an example of the next layer of toolsets that we can expect to see across virtual [...]