https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/workinginworld/blog/2009/07/21/white-house-deputy-cto-held-mixed-reality-event-in-second-life
Yesterday, Beth Noveck, the Deputy Chief Technology Officer at the White House and the person responsible for Open Government, held a mixed-reality event co-sponsored by the Markle Foundation and Global Kids, to discuss her new book “WIKI GOVERNMENT: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful.”
Aug 11, 2009
Aug 3, 2009
Introduction to Virtual Worlds
This is a 13 min overview of what can be done in OLIVE. It's not an orientation and doesn't get into details about how to use specific features. However it's a good introductory resource to show people who have never seen Virtual Worlds or know what can be done in them. http://www.forterrainc.com/index.php/resources/screens-a-video/149-introduction-to-olive-virtual-worlds-wm
Jul 31, 2009
Good Example Of AI on the Web
NextIT built an answerbot, Alex, for Continental Airlines -- http://www.continental.com . Recommend you test it out.
GSA Announces Cloud Computing Initiative
Wow -- this was fast!
"This Special Notice identifies GSA’s outline of requirements for NIST FIPS 199 defined Low and Moderate Impact Cloud Computing (CC) Software as a Service (SaaS) offering." Link: https://www.fbo.gov/spg/GSA/FTS/SmartBUY-Fairfax/GS00T08SBA0027/listing.html
"This Special Notice identifies GSA’s outline of requirements for NIST FIPS 199 defined Low and Moderate Impact Cloud Computing (CC) Software as a Service (SaaS) offering." Link: https://www.fbo.gov/spg/GSA/FTS/SmartBUY-Fairfax/GS00T08SBA0027/listing.html
Jul 29, 2009
Cloud Computing as Policy
Why all the hype ... it is in the Federal Budget statement at OMB.
"...The Federal Government will transform its Information Technology Infrastructure by virtualizing data centers, consolidating data centers and operations, and ultimately adopting a cloud-computing business model."
Information Technology Policy, p. 156 - 160 http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2010/assets/crosscutting.pdf
"...The Federal Government will transform its Information Technology Infrastructure by virtualizing data centers, consolidating data centers and operations, and ultimately adopting a cloud-computing business model."
Information Technology Policy, p. 156 - 160 http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2010/assets/crosscutting.pdf
Jul 28, 2009
Apple Opening Up iPhone to Augmented Reality
LA Times is reporting that Apple will give official support in the next release of the iPhone operating system. Now imagine what they could do with the tablet PC? BTW, this is ripe for cloud computing where image recognition algorithms will run on some server in the background. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/07/subway-augmented-reality-iphone-app.html
Jul 24, 2009
Enterprise Collaboration
Glenn Engstrand, the president of Dynamical Software Inc., writes about the advantages to using Forterra's OLIVE virtual enterprise product.
http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/future-of-work/focusing-exclusively-on-enterprise-virtual-worlds-32859
http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/future-of-work/focusing-exclusively-on-enterprise-virtual-worlds-32859
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