Sunday, June 29, 2008

CICP Seed Spec

Here's the spec for the basics of CICP. I'm looking for constructive criticism of this with an eye toward the future... we will be adding it to Sun Wonderland within weeks.

http://greenphosphor.com/CICP_spec.pdf

By the way, this has all been done before, though not as simply and without an easy way to create primitives. Have a look at HLA.

Arkowitz

Friday, June 27, 2008

CICP

I've decided to license Content Injection and Control Protocol free to closed-source virtual world platforms as well. The more available platforms Glasshouse can integrate with the better.

I will have a spec of CICP put together by the end of the week, and will be soliciting feedback and contribution from architects involved with the major open source and closed source virtual worlds. Within one week after that, CICP will be finalized and can be implemented in any virtual world; any platform with CICP then becomes a platform which can host the Glasshouse data exploration environment.

I believe CICP will be a valuable protocol for external apps to integrate with virtual worlds, for viewers to communicate with servers, and ultimately even for the various virtual world platforms to interoperate with one another.

I pledge to continue the patenting process for CICP and to license it free for all to use. Note that I am all about making money... but not with this protocol. I plan to make money with Glasshouse, and Glasshouse and other apps like it need CICP.

Ben

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

pithy saying

Much is going on. I have decided to license my Content Injection and Control Protocol free to every open source virtual world that will implement it; and Green Phosphor will help implement it as well. We need a cross-platform protocol like CICP in order to hook our Glasshouse gateway up to virtual worlds. Other types of products could benefit from CICP as well - process modelling apps, AI's, sim-to-sim gateways, you name it. CICP is primitive now but is the seed for a new way of approaching virtual world architecture.

Ed, our CTO, is just about ready with a new public Wonderland server which will allow us to demo Glasshouse much more easily. The Java webstart capability of Wonderland is killer. Meanwhile I plan to get more involved with realXtend.

And now for the pithy saying. I hope you like it, I came up with it myself and I'm so proud of it.


Beware the east!
For it is the west.


--Arkowitz

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Partnership Business Model

We're in the process of solidifying our business model. It's quite simple:

License Glasshouse, our data exploration gateway integrating virtual worlds and databases, to customers globally via partnerships with professional services companies, industry-specific solution providers, virtual world providers, and business intelligence providers.

Glasshouse is an enabling and integrating technology. Business intelligence projects benefit from being able to expose what they are doing into virtual worlds; virtual worlds projects benefit by being able to present and explore data within the virtual meeting place, in 3d. Professional services companies can build projects around Glasshouse that provide new value to their existing customers.

Green Phosphor LLC is and will remain a very lean company. We will continue to build our core technical team here in Tallahassee, as we add features and capabilities to our gateway and tools software; and we will build a layer around the core development team which is focused on supporting our partners' efforts and channeling feedback and requirements to the development team. That's it. No sales; no professional services in the field.

Ben