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….
KMi Director Enrico Motta was today appointed as Professor of Knowledge Technologies. Photo shows Enrico with Professors Marc Eisenstadt and Bob Spicer (Earth Sciences), both members of the selection committee. Related Links: Enrico Motta
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…
John Brown, Director of Learning at Ufi/LearnDirect, visited KMi today as part of a fact-finding visit to the Open University. Brown, formerly Director of Lifelong Learning at the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta), joined Ufi/ learndirect in July 2002 . According to a LearnDirect press release “John will have responsibility for leading the…
John Brown, Director of Learning at Ufi/LearnDirect, visited KMi today as part of a fact-finding visit to the Open University. Brown, formerly Director of Lifelong Learning at the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta), joined Ufi/ learndirect in July 2002 . According to a LearnDirect press release “John will have responsibility for leading the…
Instant Messaging Planet, the influential industry newsletter of the wireless/messaging worlds, has tipped BuddySpace in the top story featured in the Public IM section of its web news. The feature article, by Jupiter Media's Kevin Reichard, notes that BuddySpace offers “an interesting view of where instant messaging is headed and how it will be,” and…
Kitty Chisholm, the K in KMi, is stepping down from her post as OU Director of Development. Kitty has been involved with KMi from the beginning: right through the original concept, OU Senate briefings, VCOM discussions, formulation, brokering key industrial partnerships, and through the phenomenal expansion that has seen KMi grow to its current 63…
BuddySpace2, a cross-platform Java implementation of a new kind of instant messaging program, became available for public download today. BuddySpace is an instant messaging program with a difference: it enables users to visualise the online/offline status of colleagues and friends using customised maps, logical layouts such as building schematics and even project and course-schedule timelines….
KMi is hosting a two day integration workshop aimed at creating next-generation collaboration tools. The workshop, on 10th and 11th October, 2002, brings together KMi’s team with partners at the Universities of Edinburgh and Southampton, all engaged in “Collaborative Advanced Knowledge Technologies in the Grid” (CoAKTinG), an EPSRC project funded as part of the UK’s…
