Hasta la vista, Green Phosphor Island!

I have removed my payment info from my second life account; I will not pay another $300 monthly fee for Green Phosphor Island. Folks interested in demos or use of the Glasshouse technology within Second Life can simply meet me in a public sandbox. Those already using Glasshouse off of the island may continue to do so.

Paying $300 per month for one server to run a virtual world sim means you are pretty much getting yiffed. While I am on the subject of ridiculous things, have you seen all the avatars that "camp out" in Second Life, earning a few Linden$ per hour for sitting in a camping spot? We're talking cents per hour for someone's time! Folks is your time really worth that little?

Ben

Oil Consumption by Country and Year

totem_rez 1 grid kBarrels/day .3 {select year, year, country, country, kbarrels_per_day from oil_consumption where year > 1980 group by year, country order by year, country}


(I got this data from IBM's ManyEyes; it originally came from BP)

Ben

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;

/ark

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