Yanna and Marc went to join an invited brainstorm about multiplayer gaming within the context of the Mobile Bristol project. Phil Stenton and his team there are very happy to provide an experimental environment within which Yanna and Bas Raijmakers (now doing a PhD at the Royal College of Art) can design and test next…
Having run tools like 'AltaVista Personal' and 'Enfish' over the years, and always having wondered 'why can I search a large chunk of the web faster than I can search my own machine', I've finally discovered one (at www.x1.com) that 'does the right thing': it's not merely that it indexes everything, but more that it…
John and Marc attended the ClimatePrediction.net launch at the Science Museum, itself the subject of a KMi Planet Story and huge international press coverage. 20,000 client registrations the first day! Related Links: ClimatePrediction.net
John and Marc attended the ClimatePrediction.net launch at the Science Museum, itself the subject of a KMi Planet Story and huge international press coverage. 20,000 client registrations the first day! Related Links: ClimatePrediction.net
The Science Museum in London is the scene for today's launch of ClimatePrediction.net, the world's largest climate prediction experiment . The experiment, using thousands of personal computers to run different facets of a highly complex simulation, has been developed by a large team including the Oxford University Department of Atmospheric Physics, The University of Reading,…
From the Skype site (URL below): “Skype is the next phenomenon from the people who brought you KaZaA. Just like KaZaA, Skype uses P2P (peer-to-peer) technology to connect you to other users — not to share files this time, but to talk for free with your friends.” Well, according to the 'holy grail' feature set…
Yanna has been invited to HPLabs Bristol, at their NESTA FutureLab outpost, to present some ideas on live multiplayer gaming that could be deployed on next-generation wireless networks and devices. Her co-presenter is Bas Raijmakers, of the Interaction Design Lab at the Royal College of Art
Mike Clar, Matt Robinson, and Dave Gravell of ApplianSys visited Marc Eisenstadt, Martin Dzbor, and Jiri Komzak to discuss potential use of our BuddySpace client and Jabber server/client tools, modifications, and expertise, in conjunction with their 'IMBox 200' (secure instant messaging-in-a-box). Related Links: ApplianSys
BuddySpace, KMi's environment for integrating instant messaging, maps, and semantic web services, has now been downloaded by more than 10,000 users since the release of version 2.1 in February. Roughly half of these downloads come from the service provided by Download.com, and the other half come from KMi's own BuddySpace site, also linked from SourceForge….
The Guardian reports Monday (link below): “Britain's passionate but paradoxical love affair with the mobile phone is laid bare this week by the thinktank Demos as it calls for the next generation of mobile technologies to be harnessed to transform our relationships with each other and with the state.” The Demos recommendation is itself paradoxical…
