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 Last April Robin Good wrote an article on his blog called 'Side by Side', about the need for what I've called Simple Virtual Presence technology. One of the services of my new business Meeting of Minds will be the Personal Collaboration Technologies Suite:A set of intuitive desktop tools that allow front-line workers to see and hear each other and to work together without having to be in the same room. SVP is a critical component of this suite. The key is that they must be simple -- connecting must be as easy as making a phone call. And once connected, you need to be able to work with the other person as effectively as if you were in the same room. The same Simple Virtual Presence technology should enable you to dial into conferences you cannot attend in person. Here's a rough spec for what Simple Virtual Presence technology should offer:
The analogue between physical and virtual presence is simple and intuitive: Two visual and two audio channels replace your physical eyes and ears, and the pointer replaces your finger. The backchannel gives you multitasking capability that puts you in exactly the same position with SVP that you would have with physical presence, all with a single click. All of the technology to do this exists now. It's just a matter of combining and simplifying it. And not much accommodation is needed at the other end either: A camera & mic on each laptop that can be swiveled to show either the user or what he/she is looking at, and a 'whiteboard' that shows the document the person at the other end is working on, or the document the presenter at the conference is talking about. What's critical is resisting the temptation to add a lot of bells and whistles. A virtual meeting should be, must be, no more complicated than a physical one, if it's to be embraced by the business mainstream. Robin calls this simple functionality 'Side by Side'. I think it's even a bit richer than that: I'd call it Side-by-Side & Face-to-Face. If that sounds a little larger than life, perhaps it is. So my suggested brand name for SVP technology? Why, Picasso, of course.  |
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Paddling Out
to Catch the Enterprise Wave
"From the shore, they look like tiny dots slowly making their way out past the breakers. They're the software vendors positioning themselves to catch the Enterprise RSS wave. My, that's a lot of tiny dots...." [MoonWatcher]
RSS was big in 2004, but next year is going to be something else. It's killing me that I can't say more, but I know of two major library vendors that will make big announcements about RSS in 2005. It's going to be a fun year!Five-year-old girls are smarter than
five-year-old boys!
Five-year-old girls are smarter than
five-year-old boys! 06/26/2004 02:54 AM
NewKerala.com Jun 26 2004 5:49AM GMT3-Year-Old Shot by 4-Year Old Brother
3-Year-Old Shot by 4-Year Old Brother 11/18/2003 08:57 PM
Reuters via Wired News Nov 18 2003 8:29PM ETA year ends, a year begins...
A year ends, a year begins... 01/07/2004 04:50 PMWow. What a long time it has been since I last posted to plasticbag.org. And what have I done in the meantime? I've been back to Norfolk to see my family, experienced the wonders of Christmas, seen Return of the King, watched ten hours of videos with my little brother, watched the snow come down and get washed away, struggled through lots of music television, had my first frank conversation with my little brother about being gay, opened and given lots of gifts, battled back to London via bus and train, gone back to work for a few days before late-night driving off to Cornwall for New Year with a selection of friends and friends of friends wherein was had much late-night drinking, (indoor) swimming, fondue-ing, walks in the wet and the dark, eating of beef and roaming around. Since I last posted I've travelled about eight hundred miles in total, including trips to Penzance for shopping, Newquay for boots and Bath for Sally Lunn's. I've driven through Indian Queens, passed by Splatt and circumnavigated Pityme. I've also read a lot of The Social Life of Information (more on how much I want to burn that particular waste of headspace later), thought a lot about Tivo and Social Software, played a lot of Knights of the Old Republic and both been bought and bought for others some of the most wonderfully entertaining porcelain cups I've ever seen. All in all, an eventful and entertaining couple of weeks.
Next up is trying to get my head together to start a new project at work (interesting one this - should have really positive, interesting and coincidentally weblog-friendly effects on BBC Radio sites), trying to assemble my thoughts for a conference at Olympia in a couple of month's time, trying to work out whether to propose a participant session for this year's ETCon (which I'm still hoping I'm going to attend), while apparently also trying to score maximum points on self-created, self-destructive and highly non-fun-for-all-the-family games like, "How quickly and effectively can I alienate everyone I work with?", "Be an arse!" and "How fat, weird and bearded can one man become?". What did you guys get up to?
LynuxWorks Announces Consecutive Year
Over Year Growth and Profitability;
Companys Fourth Quarter Success Fuelled
by Growth in the Military/Aerospace
Market
LynuxWorks Announces Consecutive Year
Over Year Growth and Profitability;
Companys Fourth Quarter Success Fuelled
by Growth in the Military/Aerospace
Market 05/31/2004 02:07 PM
Embedded Software Leader Continues to Demonstrate Success with New Design Wins Plans 35% Growth in Workforce [PRWEB May 21, 2004]Research And Markets - The Western
European PC Market Has Continued To Go
From Strength To Strength In The First
Half Of 2004, Capitalizing On The
Recovery Of 2003 To Record An 18.3%
Shipment Growth Year On Year
Research And Markets - The Western
European PC Market Has Continued To Go
From Strength To Strength In The First
Half Of 2004, Capitalizing On The
Recovery Of 2003 To Record An 18.3%
Shipment Growth Year On Year 12/19/2004 03:31 PM
Research and Markets (researchandmarkets.com/reports/c11048) has announced the addition of Personal Computing in Western Europe, Forecast and Analysis Update, 2004-2008 to their offering. [PRWEB Dec 17, 2004]64 Bits and AMD, A Year Later
http://www.devhardware.com/c/a/Computer-
Processors/64-Bits-and-AMD-A-Year-Later/
64 Bits and AMD, A Year Later
http://www.devhardware.com/c/a/Computer-
Processors/64-Bits-and-AMD-A-Year-Later/ 12/29/2004 01:45 PM
DevHardware Dec 29 2004 4:44PM GMTA year in viruses It's been a vintage
year for malicious computer viruses
A year in viruses It's been a vintage
year for malicious computer viruses 12/31/2003 05:02 AM
BBC Dec 31 2003 4:53AM ET15-Year vs. 30-Year Mortgages
15-Year vs. 30-Year Mortgages 03/30/2005 11:34 AM
The mortgage you have in mind may not be best for you.The Chinese mobile phone industry's
shipment volume rose 64.2% year on year
to reach approximately 65.2 million
units as the PAS mobile phone shipment
broke a record high
The Chinese mobile phone industry's
shipment volume rose 64.2% year on year
to reach approximately 65.2 million
units as the PAS mobile phone shipment
broke a record high 06/11/2004 03:15 AM
Research and Markets are delighted to announce the addition of The Chinese Mobile Phone Industry, 1Q 2004 and Beyond to their offering [PRWEB Jun 11, 2004]Constructech Magazine Names ELAN as One
of Technologys Hottest Companies
Leading Construction Automation
Technology Magazine Recognizes ELAN as
One of the Years Most Innovative and
Exciting Companies in the Home Building
Market for Second Consecutive Year
Constructech Magazine Names ELAN as One
of Technologys Hottest Companies
Leading Construction Automation
Technology Magazine Recognizes ELAN as
One of the Years Most Innovative and
Exciting Companies in the Home Building
Market for Second Consecutive Year 07/28/2004 02:37 AM
Leading Construction Automation Technology Magazine Recognizes ELAN as One of the Years Most Innovative and Exciting Companies in the Home Building Market for Second Consecutive Year [PRWEB Jul 28, 2004]While the Taiwanese router industry
declined in the first quarter of 2004,
Taiwanese router shipments are
anticipated to grow by 30.9%
year-on-year in the second quarter of
2004
While the Taiwanese router industry
declined in the first quarter of 2004,
Taiwanese router shipments are
anticipated to grow by 30.9%
year-on-year in the second quarter of
2004 07/10/2004 03:15 AM
Research and Markets are delighted to announce the addition of The Taiwanese Router Industry, 1Q 2004 and Beyond to their offering [PRWEB Jul 10, 2004]3G: Where Will It Be a Year from Now?
3G: Where Will It Be a Year from Now? 12/28/2004 07:42 PM
eWeek Dec 28 2004 8:45PM GMTNew Year, New Gig
New Year, New Gig 01/01/2005 02:57 PM
Happy New Year to all. May this one be an improvement on the one we've just ended. As many of you know, I've left the Mercury News to work on a project to help citizen journalism. I've started a new blog where we can discuss that topic in some depth. I'll post here as well periodically, though the future of this blog is not entirely clear right now. I'm incredibly grateful to you for your support, or at least your readership and involvement in a normally valuable conversation here. We haven't always agreed, but we've been able -- with a few exceptions -- to disagree without being disagreeable. Again, happy new year, and let's keep talking.5,000,000,000 per Year
5,000,000,000 per Year 09/22/2004 07:15 PM
I had a talk today with Make Technologies, I’ve known them a long time and I have some shares. They’re doing a lot of work on legacy conversion, both methodology and technology; helping people who have mission-critical applications that they want to move to modern infrastructure, specifically J2EE. I knew that this was an interesting space (even post-Y2K) but I was flabbergasted when Mike Hagerman (Make’s CEO) told me two numbers: There are five billion new lines of COBOL getting created every year, and there (wait for it) 220 billion lines of COBOL in production. (Holy cow, now that I think about it, I bet I wrote ten or twenty thousand of them). Mike got the numbers from Gartner. That’s... scary.
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