World's Tallest Residential Tower Uses Virtual Building Concept

Check out this presentation of the first CRM solution based on Groove. It is developed by Peer-Development in Germany. I had the luck to testdrive it about 2 weeks ago and it all seems to work quiet nice.

Feyenoord :-))

Apple's iPod is perfect for virtual shoplifting. "When Apple introduced the iPod, the company was aware that people might use it to rip off music from the Net or friends' machines. But it is unlikely that Apple imagined people would walk into computer stores, plug their iPod into display computers and use it to copy software off the hard drives."

Thomas Mueller just started his weblog. Another Groovy mind :-)

Allways looking for short and comprehensive txt to describe the potential of Groove.  Ashok Hingorani has written a very nice one:

What is Groove ?
The ultimate P2P platform, because it goes beyond simple file sharing to managing any content, data, images, files, instant messaging voice and even video in a single platform.. Groove empowers the user by creating (persistent, private) shared spaces located on your own hard disk and not dependent on Servers, WebSites, Complex administration and the attendent costs. Users can invite selected members to participate in the activities in the space, Members offline when any new content is added will be automatically synchronized when they do come on line.

Why is it so important, to everyone
Groove stores all information in a safe, encrypted, XML format that will be the way the world shares data tomorrow. Because of it's hooks into .NET, integration with MS Office products and connections to your Database, Groove promises to be the personal Information Manager we have all dreamed off, and the bridge to all other systems we might use.

Dave Winer about Money. :-))

Denis just dropped by at he office to say hi.  He's back from Turkey. Had to think about him when i discovered this Blog phenomenom. It would be perfect for him to publish his thoughts and projects. Right now he's having a static website www.vlnr.info but he using it as a blog.

Tim did some work on on his weblog, i think he's getting the hang of it. he posted some exiting news about the next Generation VRML: X3D  based on XML which makes developing our tools much easier. :-)) more detailed information in this  X3D FAQ

Nico almost finished the presentation and added the panorama photo's, think he did a nice job. Deadline of  3 march will be no problem. allways good to know ;-) 

Been to a conference thuesday with Machteld about IT and the Building industry, ODM, BAS, PAIS, ERP,ICIS, PDM, IGBI, EDM, EC, etc etc, (just too many shortterms for people to grasp) No talk about XML however,  suprised me. Nice detail: Mag was the only woman amongst a audience of  40 men, allways good marketing , with URK it even works better ;-)

Steven Johnson on "Emergence"
About Ants, Cities, AI, Games and much much more. Found at theshiftedlibrarian

"Sim City is the first example of that, in some ways: "We understand how little self-organizing systems work, so I can create a little software program that will simulate that on the screen, and it'll be fun, and I'll do it as a deliberate work of culture, not as a model of doing it in a lab."
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"I was thinking that what the Web needs is a big neo-cortex. There are all these very specialized smart, focused tools being developed, and data that's being mined, and collective intelligence on specific problems. But we're not as good yet at, not just filtering all that stuff, but figuring out what belongs connected to what else. Google is, in a way, the beginning of that. It's letting the Web solve that pattern itself, looking at patterns and links of what should be connected to other things. But we need more of that kind of synthesis going on. I think XML is going to be a great platform for that. Once you have clear, simple markup for describing big chunks of data, it should be easier to do that as well. "
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"Isn't Everquest supposed to have this economy that's the size of a small country? As these worlds that were designed to let people play Dungeons and Dragons in a virtual, networked environment, as they get more and more users, and as they develop an actual economy within that world, and as it translates into real-world dollars -- as people sell their characters on eBay and stuff like that -- are we actually, through that gaming design, is there an exaptation that leads to what the Internet was supposed to look like, a virtual world with commerce, a William Gibson-like system?"

New Groove book is coming out:  10 minute guide to Groove 2.0. Gotta buy this for my parents and some clients ;-)  Personally looking more forward to Phil's book about Groove, did meet with him in Rotterdam 2 weeks ago , he showed me some amazing Groovy stuff :-) . I'm glad he also will be coming to the coming Groove Developers Conference in april.

Hehe, Tim, our codewizzard, is still thinking which log to choose,  Blogger or Radio.  Good to see he's Blogging too. :-)

Mmmm, Will this be the end of any real competition in the market of Architectural CAD Software ?  If the government approves, Autodesk hopes to complete its US$133 million-purchase of Revit Technologies by the end of July.  IMHO Revit is the most innovative  and intuitive CAD software around , very powerfull stuff.

Found some more interesting threads about Groove on Craig Burton's weblog

Just noticed we are mentioned as one of the "featured partners" page on the Groove  Networks website. :-)

latenightsurfing
Enjoyed this a lot : Why online weblogs are one future of journalism. by Andrew Sullivan  also liked Dave Winer's bio

Updated  page about Architect0r tools with list of concepttools with short descriptions. Elevat0r, Urbanis0r, Garden0r, Survey0r, Own0r and so on.... yep, naming is easy for these tools ;-) 

Thnx to Hugh for his nice words and appropriate Sinatra quote in his weblog today. You're generating all my traffic ;-) btw: Hope you had a nice first day at Groove.

Grrrrr, Network problems on the office allday :-(. Harm has solved them finally. Groove asked us to write some text about our company and solutions for Groove. Still editing at the moment with Tim. also made this screenshot of an Architect0r Groovetool., I like it !! (small version below) Building Architect0r tools for Groove will easily add stable functionality like navigating, zooming and even designing together and storing all project data in a secure environment. Hardly can wait for Groove 2.0

Wow, Look at this beautifull Satellite picture of all the lights on the earth's suface at night. So this is how the infrastructure of our planet is laid out. Here is some background information of this study tracking the worlwide urbanisation process through sattelite imagery.

Architosh on track for 5000 petitions for Autocad on Mac OS X, wonder if Autodesk will respond to this ?

What's Good Design ? This article by Paul Graham is about the importance of "taste" in the design process. I see there's a lot of interesting writings on his site looks like i'll have some more reading to do.

Guess i'm not the only person who doesn't like the new Google look :-)

Interesting disussion found regarding flash interfaces and XML content using Radio Userland. An experimental Flash Blog can be found here. Made me think about enhance the Architect0r designtools with some Blog functionality. Could be great for maintaining project information or decisionlogs. Have to talk to Tim about it....

Nico just mailed me the last workingversion of the project he's working on. It's a small presentation we do for one of our bigger clients. Hotspots within this flashmovie will link to panoramaphoto's of this building. Although this project didn't require much interactivity, i like the axonometric display of a building and the zooming. The building itself is a showcase of a sophisticated modular building system. Last year we developed software for this Building system: MAX-21 Designtool and we used this particular building as our refence point. When visiting the building i liked seeing it finally in reallife after seen it hundreds of times on my notebook screen.

Didn't notify anyone of my regular webcontacts yet of my new weblog, somehow Hugh did find me allready :-) How did you find me that fast ? 
Hugh Pyle is a brilliant Groove Developer and just recently was hired by Groove, Congratulations to Hugh and Groove. I just checked his weblog and it's worth the read, wonderfull insights and links.

Just stumbled across this interesting new Vaio model, i'm addicted to my 2 year old Vaio and looking for replacement. Maybe a XP tablet PC with Groove 2.0 would suit me better ;-)

Have been pretty exited about this Radio Userland the past 24 hours, i wonder if i will use this weblog a lot in the future because i'm a terrible slow writer but writing is a skill that should be praticed to become better at it. I could use this weblog for this purpose. To start i wrote a short introduction about myself. It can be found here.

Info page about the Architect0r tool created. This set of tools based on Flash, XML and VRML is something we have been working on for the last year. The last 2 months my focus was mainly on Groove but last thursday i did a presentation showing them to a prospected client and was presently suprised by the enthousiasm for this flash tools.

Today i was searching the web for some more Groove information and i found this interesting thread . After reading it i got interested in knowing more about Userland Radio and downloaded it. This resulted in setting up my personal weblog for my Groove addiction.