As one of the organisers of Home Camp, I dropped in to see how Virtual Home Camp is shaping up. There are already some really interesting toys and gadgets in there – had a brief chat about how to feed weather data in, looked at the virtual version of Chris’ ducks, and was generally really impressed to see the progress that has been made. Thanks to the folks from ReactionGrid for hosting us. If you can’t come to the real event on April 25th in London, I think this could be a great way of participating.
Tag: virtual worlds
Hail to the tribal chieftan
I’ve written more about this on my internal company weblog, but suffice it to say that I’ve blogged externally about my ongoing involvement with virtual worlds etc. and I’ve mentioned my minor Internet celebrity friend Mr Hughes on many occasions. I’m not going to go as far as to call him my Yoda, but he’s been a massive influence on me for the past few years.
Virtual Worlds & IBM Unified Communications
A week ago I was giving a client presentation in Hursley about Social Software and Virtual Worlds.
One of the questions I was asked was “do you see a time when virtual worlds might be integrated with Sametime?”
One answer I gave was that this had been demonstrated at a couple of conferences.
I certainly don’t have any information about what might happen in the future, but this video shows another example (hint – you can watch this in HD quality on YouTube if you want a better picture quality)
The Hursley blogging network
It is interesting that I’m usually identified as “an IBM Hursley person”, but officially I’m actually not – I’m a mobile worker with an office maildrop in London. It is true that I’m in Hursley as often as possible… largely because I love the location, a lot of my good friends are based there, and the products that I support are developed there.
I thought I’d mention a few of the blogs that we have going now:
- eightbar – what is now generally known as a virtual worlds blog began as a blog about the cool “other stuff” that happens in and around IBM Hursley. Actually that’s how I first got involved with eightbar (or should that be, “the award winning eightbar”?)
- Hursley on WMQ / IBMers on Messaging – various IBMers writing about IBM’s messaging products (this recently moved onto developerworks)
- Testing Blues – a group of testers from Hursley discussing issues around software testing.
- The Master Terminal – a CICS blog that I only discovered the other day!
Those are just the group blogs – there are a bunch of talented folks who work around Hursley with their own blogs too, of course (and sometimes I seem to be counted as one of them).