Category: miscellaneous

Mashable has a write up of another 3D world that is getting some press out of Demofall 2007.  SceneCaster looks interesting to me for 2 reasons: It seems to be an open platform.  I can do what I want to do, not what they will let me do. It is directly integrated to Google 3D…

.!. I wonder if the UAW considered striking at GM’s SL islands? IBM SL PROTEST ORGANIZATION

After our meeting yesterday we headed further up in the mountains to a town called Leadville, which I leaned is the highest incorporated town in the United States, at 10,200 feet. We drove a few miles out of town to Continental Divide ATV and signed away our lives on a few pages of legal forms.…

I flew out to Denver yesterday and then drove up the mountains to Breckenridge, which sits at over 9,600 feet above sea level.  I have never been this high other than traveling inside a pressurize airplane cabin and I didn’t realize how much the altitude would effect me.  All day yesterday I had a killer…

.!. Well of course they are.  I’m not convinced that this ASU beta is necessarily a beta test for it.  However, I am absolutely sure that Google is somewhere working on a virtual world.  Why?  5 reasons: It only makes sense given their well know 20% model for developers.  Surely somewhere across the great expanse…

This via Boing Boing: one of the tech Crunch 40 conference finalists has setup shop providing a platform for people to create their own virtual worlds.  Meta Place promises to: let you build anything, and play everything, from anywhere. Eventually, anyway. We have to finish it first. I think this was inevitable given the popularity…

One of the changes that happens every fall is I switch from listening to NPR on the way in and home from work to the local sports call in show.  I guess that could be termed going from the sublime to the ridiculous.  The switch is driven largely by my fascination with football, both college…

It was a weekend of extremes.  I am a huge Kentucky Wildcat fan for both football and basketball and on Saturday they had their big in state rivalry game against Louisville.  They were actually ahead in the series with 10 wins and 9 losses over the last 19 years, but you wouldn’t know it if…

I haven’t been doing a lot with my facebook account for a while.  However I have been thinking about Facebook as a ‘platform’ (note the lower case p) for PLM applications.  The underlying social networks that Facebook is built on would be a killer way to gather requirements for new products aimed at specific niches,…