Friday, 11 July 2008

Hiperia3D News: 20 Technologies For 3D Worlds On The Web

http://news.hiperia3d.com/2008/07/20-technologies-for-3d-worlds-on-web.html

Good list of 3D technologies out there. What's interesting with OpenSim is the way that its beginning to divorce 3D graphics from the actual protocols, so you can use your 3D engine of choice - as RealXtend have done. Would it be possible to do the same thing with one of these web/flash based systems and put it in an OpenSim/SL wrapper? One feels the metaverse getting closer.


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Get Satisfaction - People-Powered Customer Service

http://getsatisfaction.com/ - the Web 2.0 support application for Web 2.0 services?


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Wednesday, 9 July 2008

Deborah's off to Mumbai

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Deborah and the team left for Mumbai about 1130 this morning. We drove down in the rain and helped load the vehicles and then waved goodbye in the rain. All being well they'll be in Dunkerque now.

It's going to be strange not having Deborah around for 10 whole weeks. I still can't decide whether its better or worse that I've got the kids through the holidays rather than during term time. With term it would be easier just to settle into a routine, but at least with holiday they've got the opportunity to go off and do things and take their minds off the fact that Deb's not around - and give me a break. We'll see how it pans out. Ruth finishes term on Friday anyway.

You can keep track of Deborah's journey on her blog and team web site.


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Jo helping to load the Landcruisers.


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Ruth, Deb and Jo


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The four of us.


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Friday, 4 July 2008

OpenCalais

http://www.opencalais.com/

"The Calais Web Service automatically creates rich semantic metadata forthe content you submit - in well under a second. Using natural languageprocessing, machine learning and other methods, Calais analyzes yourdocument and finds the entities within it. But, Calais goes well beyondclassic entity identification and returns the facts and events hiddenwithin your text as well."

And it's from Thomson Reuters!

Now couldn't a bot have fun with that!

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OpenLearn - The Open University

http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/


Open Learn - the Open University's CC licenced content

which ends up at....

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Show Us a Better Way - UK Govt Mash-up Competition

http://www.showusabetterway.co.uk/


The start of a quick surf trail. Similar concept to BBC Backstage and what we've also been suggesting to Digital Birmingham.

Which leads to....

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Digital Urban: Google Earth Thematic Mapping Engine



Thanks to Digital Urban for the heads up on this great data visualisation tool using Google Earth. More at http://thematicmapping.org/.


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