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3D printing – rapidly getting easier

We first started to get interested in 3D printing a year or so back, and at that I played with a number of the services on the market, but the experience wasn’t easy, and 3D printers in the home still seemed some way off.

Both those things are now changing fast.

The usability challenge [...]

3D fun on a Friday afternoon

Regular readers will know I’m a believer in the web going 3D, well parts of it anyway. I blogged recently about Sun’s and IBM’s interest in the area, and then yesterday I got invited to an IBM conference on the subject in July.

So I’ve been checking out a few things – and the [...]

Sun Virtual Workspace

Check out this video of Sun’s Virtual Workspace. They have built a Second Life style collaboration environment focused on commerce. Very cool.

More detailed info is available on Sun’s site here. They call the initiative MPK20 (obviously not because they want me to remember it).

Being like Second Life, it is avatar based. [...]

Consumer internet – the changing nature of the game

I have been thinking for some time that the extreme capital efficiency of many web2.0 businesses is a feature of where we are in the cycle and will start to come under pressure as the sector matures. So when Max Bleyleben – in his post on Web2.0 bubble debate in full swing pointed me [...]