The current name for their company is MotionSpeak, rather catchy. Some really good thought has gone into this thing.
Questions I have are:
1) How far behind are companies like macromedia and microsoft on competing technologies? At least on the publishing side...
2) If the first target is kiosk operation, how much of the infrastructure to manage, distribute, authorize, charge, track, bill, etc. has been built. Who manages what aspects of the process and system, advertisers, advertising agents, host, host syndicate owner, others?
3) Others have targeted ASP model tools (Javu Technologies for example which built an extensive suite of non-linear editing tools for online movie editing and publishing). Is it the authoring tool, the publishing tool, or the management tool that you see as primary drivers of the business?
4) How does this compete/complement the double clicks of the world?
5) Seems like the quickest hit would be to hit the Yahoo or eBays. The complexities of establishing a management and distribution system for the other outlets may take some time.
Sunday, June 29, 2003
So, Steve Youngblood and Volker Shultz have put together an idea, prototype and business plan for a company they call PointWare. In esscence, it is a flash publishing and hosting (asp) system targeting advertisers (small to medium) who want dynamic content in their online ads. Potentially targetting things such as coffee shop kiosk type advertising, online auction sites (yahoo, ebay), and double click like advertising organizations.
The system is really nice visually and creates a nifty swf file when done that is easily editable and publishable. They have done a good job with the UI and the experience, however if you are used to direct manipulation (e.g. power point) you will be somewhat disappointed in the awkwardness that this interface forces you into.
A nice tool, and some interesting potential. It also is in the arena of information publishing which does interest me.
They would like to consider me as a potential 3rd person in their company. I find this quite flattering, and have seriously considered how I could become involved. However, with the other things currently going on in my life, I'm going to have to bow out.
The system is really nice visually and creates a nifty swf file when done that is easily editable and publishable. They have done a good job with the UI and the experience, however if you are used to direct manipulation (e.g. power point) you will be somewhat disappointed in the awkwardness that this interface forces you into.
A nice tool, and some interesting potential. It also is in the arena of information publishing which does interest me.
They would like to consider me as a potential 3rd person in their company. I find this quite flattering, and have seriously considered how I could become involved. However, with the other things currently going on in my life, I'm going to have to bow out.
Monday, June 23, 2003
Okay, just got back from a long weekend helping Brian Godinez celebrate his 50th birthday in McAllen Texas. What a blast. Pam, Risa, Laney and I took off late Thursday, showed up in Corpus Christi, rented a piece of crap Cavalier and drove to McAllen. About 1:30AM woke Brian and LaLa up and quickly crashed.
Friday, 4:30 AM. Brian grabs Cliff (who fell off the wagon (14months worth) the night before and was a hurtin' unit) and me up. Drove to Leguna Somethinguna where we jumped on board with skipper Janey. She was a blast. Sun was still down, but we set out. Fished until around 1:30, caught about 15 trout, 1 red fish, and I nailed a flounder (ugly damn fish). Drank a couple beers and got damn hot.
Friday after making it back to the house, got ready and went over to Aunt Judy's for a night of celebrating with kids and full family. Judy has an amazing party house, with a pool and a party building (pool table, foosball table, the works. Kids had so much fun in the pool. Drank beer (not the kids...) and then went back to Brian's place. Drank a buttload of tequilla (brian had jiggers rather than shot glasses, so those 4 shots were really 6!). Got yelled at by Pam for being loud, and then passed out around 2:30AM.
Saturday morning --- ouch...breakfast, ouch, a couple hour nap, and then back into action. Prepare for the adult party which was held at a bar on the Rio Grande river overlooking Mexico. Great location, but damn hot. Drank, danced, roasted brian, the works. Fun, fun, fun.
Back to Brian's around 1:30 till 3AM with a few people, then to bed.
Sunday, not as painful, pretty much a hang out day. Dropped Omar and Astraya off at the airport, had a shrimp cocktail snack, it's hot like nobody's business, up to 105 down here. Shikes. Cooked up our fish (about 1/4 of it served 6 of us!), felt like a man!
Sunday around 8PM pack the kids and pam in the car and head back to Corpus. On the way, nearly have a head-on collision with an idiot trying to pass a semi. Scared the poop out of us...I just held 'er steady and let him pass us--head-on-- on our right! Pam calls 911 and tells on the idiot.
Around 10:30 get to CC and grab a Holiday Inn.
Monday (today), about 5AM, alarm starts going off...need to catch a 6:55 flight to ATL. No problems, drag ourselves there and hop on the plane. About 11, show up in ATL and head home to drop the kids in daycare so I can run errands (car registration, groceries, laundry, car inspection...oh, and test drove an '01 Z06 vette...very fun, but they want $36K for it...).
Tomorrow, back to work...
Friday, 4:30 AM. Brian grabs Cliff (who fell off the wagon (14months worth) the night before and was a hurtin' unit) and me up. Drove to Leguna Somethinguna where we jumped on board with skipper Janey. She was a blast. Sun was still down, but we set out. Fished until around 1:30, caught about 15 trout, 1 red fish, and I nailed a flounder (ugly damn fish). Drank a couple beers and got damn hot.
Friday after making it back to the house, got ready and went over to Aunt Judy's for a night of celebrating with kids and full family. Judy has an amazing party house, with a pool and a party building (pool table, foosball table, the works. Kids had so much fun in the pool. Drank beer (not the kids...) and then went back to Brian's place. Drank a buttload of tequilla (brian had jiggers rather than shot glasses, so those 4 shots were really 6!). Got yelled at by Pam for being loud, and then passed out around 2:30AM.
Saturday morning --- ouch...breakfast, ouch, a couple hour nap, and then back into action. Prepare for the adult party which was held at a bar on the Rio Grande river overlooking Mexico. Great location, but damn hot. Drank, danced, roasted brian, the works. Fun, fun, fun.
Back to Brian's around 1:30 till 3AM with a few people, then to bed.
Sunday, not as painful, pretty much a hang out day. Dropped Omar and Astraya off at the airport, had a shrimp cocktail snack, it's hot like nobody's business, up to 105 down here. Shikes. Cooked up our fish (about 1/4 of it served 6 of us!), felt like a man!
Sunday around 8PM pack the kids and pam in the car and head back to Corpus. On the way, nearly have a head-on collision with an idiot trying to pass a semi. Scared the poop out of us...I just held 'er steady and let him pass us--head-on-- on our right! Pam calls 911 and tells on the idiot.
Around 10:30 get to CC and grab a Holiday Inn.
Monday (today), about 5AM, alarm starts going off...need to catch a 6:55 flight to ATL. No problems, drag ourselves there and hop on the plane. About 11, show up in ATL and head home to drop the kids in daycare so I can run errands (car registration, groceries, laundry, car inspection...oh, and test drove an '01 Z06 vette...very fun, but they want $36K for it...).
Tomorrow, back to work...
Monday, June 02, 2003
So, how to apply computers to computing...and really both of my points previously (the id of the computer and software visualization) are finding ways to make the computer more useful to itself. Why is it so hard for a computer to self-recover? IBM's autonomous computing is drilling at that idea. But are they going in the right direction?
Ooh, what if we think about a dual processor, not as things to co-process, but rather as two semi-independent hemispheres. Or, alternatively, what if we used one processor as the 'concious' element of the computer and dedicated the second to be the 'subconscious'? Dedicated processing could go on that would help put context and add the relationships to the events happening in the other hemisphere....
Interesting thought...
Ooh, what if we think about a dual processor, not as things to co-process, but rather as two semi-independent hemispheres. Or, alternatively, what if we used one processor as the 'concious' element of the computer and dedicated the second to be the 'subconscious'? Dedicated processing could go on that would help put context and add the relationships to the events happening in the other hemisphere....
Interesting thought...
Monday morning....
Dr. appt this morning to check my blood. See if my good fat level is better and see if the lipitor has done any good. Hopefully the exercising has been helping as well.
Okay, so thinking more about it, I'll use this area to jot down some ideas and try to expand on them...
Why haven't computers been turned fully on the question fo computing? Or have they and I am just not aware of it. We tend to apply computing to all sorts of problems, but not near enough on the problem of computing. Computers for computing sake.
Especially when thinking about thinking. How can computers help us figure this out? I'm very interested in this area...the positronic brain, Data, etc. But have we really put computers to task on this? I don't know, but I intend to find out.
Dr. appt this morning to check my blood. See if my good fat level is better and see if the lipitor has done any good. Hopefully the exercising has been helping as well.
Okay, so thinking more about it, I'll use this area to jot down some ideas and try to expand on them...
Why haven't computers been turned fully on the question fo computing? Or have they and I am just not aware of it. We tend to apply computing to all sorts of problems, but not near enough on the problem of computing. Computers for computing sake.
Especially when thinking about thinking. How can computers help us figure this out? I'm very interested in this area...the positronic brain, Data, etc. But have we really put computers to task on this? I don't know, but I intend to find out.
Sunday, June 01, 2003
With 3.4 out of the way (almost anyway), and ISS targeted to be complete the middle of June (all the work should be done now), and SAS 70 out of the way, I should be able to start thinking again.
3.8 looks to be a trio of sprints, with John managing them, I should be able to really open up a bit about how we are doing things at least beyond the 1 month horizon.
In particular, I want to make a roadmap for my eventual phd. I'm meeting with Jim Foley in a couple of weeks to get his thoughts on the matter.
My thinking is this:
1) Begin writing
2) Get articles published
3) Get articles in a referreed journal
4) Begin the conference tour
5) Determine my target thesis
6) Locate primary, secondar, tertiary school and prof to partner with
7) Do whatever it takes to get into one of these
Now, the hard part is balancing this with family and nuBridges. The goal is to align at least the writing and thesis with nuBridges such that they can be complimentary rather than at odds. This shouldn't be difficult in that there are a lot of areas that could be directly impacted within the nuBridges scope.
3.8 looks to be a trio of sprints, with John managing them, I should be able to really open up a bit about how we are doing things at least beyond the 1 month horizon.
In particular, I want to make a roadmap for my eventual phd. I'm meeting with Jim Foley in a couple of weeks to get his thoughts on the matter.
My thinking is this:
1) Begin writing
2) Get articles published
3) Get articles in a referreed journal
4) Begin the conference tour
5) Determine my target thesis
6) Locate primary, secondar, tertiary school and prof to partner with
7) Do whatever it takes to get into one of these
Now, the hard part is balancing this with family and nuBridges. The goal is to align at least the writing and thesis with nuBridges such that they can be complimentary rather than at odds. This shouldn't be difficult in that there are a lot of areas that could be directly impacted within the nuBridges scope.
okay, so now the question is how to get published. Perhaps I should take a single topic and start drilling in. Looking for places to publish, and places to make my opinion known.
The best bet is to take something like #1 and just start writing. But it would be good to have a couple of targets in mind. By the end of the week, I want to have a good list of potential targets prioritized and correlated with potential articles.
The best bet is to take something like #1 and just start writing. But it would be good to have a couple of targets in mind. By the end of the week, I want to have a good list of potential targets prioritized and correlated with potential articles.
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