Dan Fouts, ladies and gents

Embed this into a gql query:

select s.year, s.year, s.id, concat(p.fname, concat(' ', p.lname)), s.passyd from seasons s, players p where p.position = 'qb' and s.id = p.id and s.year > 1980 and s.year < 1990 and s.team = 'sdg' group by s.year, s.id order by s.year, s.id;

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data wizards

The engine that will drive true transformation within organizations who want to make better use of their data is: the data wizard. Data wizardry is a new profession. These are people with the communication skills and technical prowess to facilitate discovery sessions for your teams, within the virtual environment (and that includes the phone, email, all non-proximity-based communication).

Green Phosphor is all about enabling and empowering a new community of data wizards as ethical, competent, and brilliant group discovery and decision facilitators.

Ben

real actual work

What are you doing in virtual worlds?

- socializing?
- training?
- virtual meetings?
- marketing/branding?


These are all great activities for virtual worlds, but they are not enough. What I want to see is real actual work being done. Work that is at the core of a user's daily mission.

Collaborative problem solving.

Group decision making.

A virtual world can be a virtual warroom.


I don't know about you, but I've seen great things come from warrooms; there's no better way to get a group to focus and act in concert than by throwing them all into one big room with laptops and whiteboards and keeping them there until a project is off the ground, a prototype is developed, or a solution is found.

Now you can do the same thing with people who are scattered around the globe. Save one plane ticket and you've paid for the technology.

glasshouse

Back in the green phosphor days of mainframes and vdt's, we worked in equipment rooms called "glass houses". Then of course there's the Philip Johnson home. Glass surrounded by green.

Glasshouse is an appropriate name for our product. Our gateway and methodology give you a transparent view of your data; your business. We'll turn your data warehouse into a glass house.

Ben

get knocked down, but I get up again

I'm in the process of bringing green phosphor back to life. I'm going to keep the Second Life island, and keep totem up in sl for people to use for free. For commercial use we are focusing long term on the lg3d-wonderland platform.

Website is back up; and I'm thinking of making a couple changes:

- invitation codes: going away; registration will be completely open
- totem is already used by a gnu project; I may change the name to "glasshouse"; what do you think?

Ben

provider cancelled

Cancellation is a time of renewal. For example, why am I paying $300 per month for a second life island? How much electricity does that machine (sim) use?

lg3d is the way to go

we're going to contribute peer-to-peer to it (it being the gpl lg3d-wonderland project), and provide our patent-pending data visualization technology within the platform.

it will be a new web. a 3d web.

think of it: avatar data-wads, cryptographically signed, being teleported form machine to machine, virtual space to virtual space (and virtual space and machine not the same)

we have a personal space; there is a sphere which we can perceive. there is yet another sphere, inside it on one side and outside it on the other, of things which we can influence... touch.

these spheres of perception and influence are our beings within the dimensions we inhabit.

May they be temples of the Spirit.

interceptions

The greenphosphor.com site has been down all day. This blog is now my only lifeline to the world *sob* *sob*

(I'm reminded here of the IBM computer voice in Frank Zappa's Thingfish [first track of second disc])

We'll be back up with a new version of totem, and a new hosting provider.

Ben

learning

We're helping companies learn from their data. This involves a number of threads of effort under one project umbrella:

- consolidation of metadata (unifying the description of your data)
- access to data feeds where they are
- mapping of data dimensions to physical(virtual) dimensions of visualization

In terms of roles, you have:

- facilitators. You provide them. We train them to be able to rez out any visualization of any query of your unified database, and then further manipulate the visualization of the query.

- teams. These are your people, assigned to whitehat teams and blackhat teams, solving your business problems, using your data. All they need is avatars and browsers.


Once you obtain the capability to have secure virtual meetings facilitated by data wizards, and attended by teams formed without regard to geography, new levels of understanding emerge.

Arkowitz

quarterback query

I just rezzed out this query, on Green Phosphor Island:

totem_rez 1 grid yards .3 {select s.year, s.year, s.id, concat(p.fname, concat(' ', p.lname)), s.passyd from seasons s, players p, (select id, sum(att) as catt from seasons where position = 'qb' group by id) c where s.position = 'qb' and s.id = c.id and c.catt > 800 and s.id = p.id and s.year > 1986 and s.year < 2005 group by s.year, s.id order by s.year, s.id}


Check out your favorite quarterback. I like two in particular: Marino and Favre.


go here for a slurl to the island


Ben

open source

I'm thinking about open-sourcing the Second Life piece of the totem system.

This would enable anyone to build their own type of visualization, that works with totem... and use it to render any data anyone has uploaded to totem, given the right gql query.

We need a collaborative, community-driven website for totem... also that will enable the contest we will be doing:

A contest for the most significant truth revealed through use of totem. Data art in Second Life.

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by the way, if you need an invitation code for registration to use totem, just use friends45


ps - and yes, if you created your own type of visualization, you could charge L$ and sell your own assistant objects