dog in the city

I do not think that dogs are happy when exposed to crowds in the city.
they look rather confused.

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This is WidgetCast

Widgetcast Beta 1
The inaugural episode of widgetcast. To kick things off Sven, Xaver and Chris spend some time laying some groundwork for future shows and dive into a few topics they can’t wait to get to. Xaver invents a widget that will automatically reconfigure itself based on the experiences of its user - in the real world and the virtual world. Sven talks about why single points of control like Etsy and Ebay are one of the things keeping more people from participating in social production. Chris wonders if social production will ever make its way completely out of software and into something like the lowly ice cream scoop.

This is WidgetCast

we did our first (beta) webcast .. was fun to do.
sometimes it’s hard for me to express myself, partly due to my poor english

wonder what and who is next …

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Tags: podcast, widgets, virtual world, intelectual property, social production

Gadget UI

pic showing favorite gadgets … just a few physical buttons with most frequent actions assigned to them … the touch screen implements more interface elements as required,,, on demand,,, just in time,,,

what if the surface would bend and buttons would emerge dynamically as required? … the nice thing about buttons is: force feadback

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Tags: ui, transforming, touch, buttons, screen,

followed by prims

since last week I am followed by prims occasionally - don’t know yet whether this for the good or the bad

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Tags: prims, followers

Höhenflug

gestern Nachmittag,,, Start eines Heissluftballons bei der Hünenberger Badi.

nicht sehr ruhig - aber doch majestätisch.

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flat frog

a victim of the urban society

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Most corporate SL is nonsense?

“Most corporate SL is nonsense?” I don’t know if I can answer that with Twitter! But if you blog about it, I’ll reply 8 minutes ago from web in reply to XaverInglin Icon_star_empty reply to burhop

Twitter

here you go …

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taking a leave

In February I received a $10,000 Faculty Excellence Grant from Walden University (where I teach part-time) to study Second Life (SL) and its implications for education at a distance. Thanks to this generous grant, I will be taking a leave of absence from my teaching duties so I can spend at least four to six months exploring, investigating and experimenting in SL. My vision is to essentially immerse myself in SL as an educator, documenting the experience in real time. I know that with the right tools, the right input, the right contacts, the right perspective, and enough time, I can create a practical resource of great value for educators who wish to use SL with their students, and to learn about it for themselves.

About | The Story of My “Second Life”

.. great starting point … may be I will do similar but without external budget

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new meeting models

New meeting models will emerge. Hang up on routine, calendared conference calls. The definition of “meetings” will radically transform and become increasingly adhoc and instantaneous based on context and need. 3-D virtual world and gaming technologies will significantly influence online corporate meeting experiences to deliver more life-like experiences demanded by the next generation workers who will operate more efficiently in this familiar environment.

IBM sounds death knell for desktop | News | TechRadar.com

I am ready

(… am I - or should I get some more experience with gaming?)

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Tags: vitrual, meeting

transient architecture

looking at topotransegrity I made up my own thoughts.

yes, it is a good idea to create architectural structures, which adopt dynamically to usage patterns over time. but it would be hard for users to find orientation in such ever evolving structures. therefore some fixed elements are needed, which act as landmarks.

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Tags: architecture, principles, orientation, transformation