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May 22, 2006

Web 4.0

I am constantly amazed by the wealth of content and parallel universes that people create in Second Life. The blog "New World Notes" seems like a good entry into that part of the online world. What I found lacking in Second Life were ways to collaborate with each other for business purposes. Why can I can not share my PPT with others or desktop. There are others who believe that Second Life is not the perfect answer.

A software that I have been tracking for a while and has now finally been made available for developers, is Croquet. They are focused on enabling collaboration whilst ensuring that your creativity can still reign freely like in Second Life where you can create your own, personal worlds. I look forward to work and develop for Croquet in the coming months.

Posted by bjoern at 03:57 PM |

May 16, 2006

New mapping applications

Yet another article that makes you see that sci-fi is now entitled Plan to Map the world in real time. I'll forward this to our partner Cityneo and see how they respond. Surely, not everyone can match the ressources that Microsoft can bring into this arena but often it's the brains and not the # of people isn't it?

Posted by bjoern at 08:08 PM |

May 15, 2006

Connect Australia's billion dollars race

Austar, Soul, Unwired seek funding for alternative network; when you read this article and remember the one titled "Connections line up at Telstra " from The Australian Financial Review (May 5th), featuring Sol Trujillo and his controversial investment at Telstra, especially the construction of a 3.4billion AUD optic fibre network, it looks like Australia is jumping ahead to fill-up its connectivity gap (if any).

Posted by the only a at 01:50 PM |

Living in a Sci-fi World serie: sensing how near the singularity is

Smart Mobs: Scan This Book! Imagine the day when you 'll be able to load in a microsec. the full world library's 50 petabyte of content (32 million books, 750 million articles and essays, 25 million songs, 500 million images, 500,000 movies, 3 million videos, TV shows and short films and 100 billion public Web pages...) into your brain.... OR alternatively, for the backward folks (sic!), on their ipod... A hell of a headache !

Posted by the only a at 01:35 PM |

May 12, 2006

Skype lowers the language barrier

Share Skype - Language Line - Personal Interpreter That is an amazing service Skype just launched in partnership with Language Lines. You can book an interpreter without pre-scheduling and get him/her on your call within 45 sec! Apparently (reported by Tech Crunch) the service doesn't work properly -yet- on Mac.

That really is a keen move Skype made, close to my personal conviction as where the next big evolution should go.

Posted by the only a at 04:02 PM |

May 05, 2006

launch of new color-scheme

Today we launched our new color-scheme and prepared the navigation for the content to come soon. This is a good step to the full relaunch of theandb.biz.
For now, the link "who we are" will point to the PDF version of our companies presentation. We feel that it represents better what we have to offer than the old html-page. That will of course change once we will have created content for the new sub-sections of our site.

Stay tuned for more. 

Posted by theandb at 01:02 AM |

May 03, 2006

progress in April

Having settled in Sydney, Australia we are progressing on our path into the hearts& minds of people. A relaunch of theandb.biz is planned for May/ June and will initially reflect the presentation of services we offer.

We are also advancing on the next version of our wiki-like publishing system. See current version and the roadmap for what's next. Lot's of possible applications for it, however we are targeting users of knowledge-management tools such as MindManager from Mindjet, Freemind and PersonalBrain.

And at the same time we are working with a German company and their client on relaunching their website with a new CMS.

Lot's to do, lot's more in store.

Posted by bjoern at 02:25 PM |