You may remember Episode 1 of the Take2 Podcast [take2.greenbush.us] (then again .. maybe not *LOL*) … In case you missed it , the main topic of discussion was "Data Mashups" & "Widgets" — The Wall Street Journal Reports "'Mashups' Sew Data Together" [online.wsj.com] And to hear and see more from us on Mashups: [take2.greenbush.us] ...

A great video by Sir Ken Robinson (an expert on creativity) asking the questions: “Do Schools Kill Creativity?” …. a very interesting commentary.

A fantastic social network for teachers – [classroom20.ning.com] is a great tool for any educator looking to connect, compare, and interact with other like minded educators ! In the Class 2.0 network I have also set up a group dedicated to – Croquet/Secondlife/OpenSim 3D virtual classroom users and developers:: [tinyurl.com] Feel free to join and ...

The Croquet Project :: [www.opencroquet.org] Machu Picchu on Croquet [www.youtube.com]

With RSS-Mixer … Its Synthesis everywhere ! [www.rssmixer.com] #rssmixer_widget :link, #rssmixer_widget :visited { color: #fff; text-decoration: none !important; } #rssmixer_widget a:hover { border-bottom: #fff 1px dotted !important; } Greenbush Synt… Read more at RSS Mixer

Back in October of 2006 the GBLabs team began exploring the 3D collaborative virtual environment of Secondlife, We purchased an Island (Back in March 2007) and are doing extensive work (even still !) to create a "universe" for teachers to collaborate virtually in. For the the past 4-5 months it has occured that we need ...

An interesting marketing experiment:

Large scale broadband wireless services would obviously dramatically change the way Greenbush can deliver services and change the dynamics of our "Mobile Media" platform (bringing it squarely to the forefront). As outlined here – [rich.greenbush.us] – we see the two emerging service delivery platforms for us residing in the mobile media and virtual environments space ...

[www.businessweek.com] From businessweek.com Data are the "raw material" of today. "Any product that is not closely associated with a service today, will be in 10 years," said Kevin Fong, managing director of Silicon Valley's renowned Mayfield venture capital fund, at a recent Institute of Design strategy conference. In line with our theory: (1) we are ...

Along the same likes of Steve Jobs speach stating "developers build the things they would like to use their self". [en.wikipedia.org] To say that a company "eats its own dog food" means that it uses the products that it makes. For example, Microsoft emphasizes the use of its own software products inside the company. Dogfooding ...

With RSS as the new "Driver of the Web" and Live streaming media becoming "Main Stream" web 3.0 will look very different from todays 2.0 variety. In an interesting article outlining the role of mobile media in the future howtosplitanatom writes about "How To Define Web 3.0" [howtosplitanatom.com] * RSS evolves into a web 3.0 ...

Below is a graphic containing trends for Ipod sales and SL user sign ups. Outlining my belief that the emerging technology that needs the greatest amount of research and exploration (especially in education) are in these areas (especially as they relate to the future of Greenbush services). At some point the law of large numbers ...

[en.wikipedia.org] (and addressing the question – Are well selling the car or the road?) New Media Marketing is a relatively new concept utilized by businesses in developing an online community, which allows satisfied customers to congregate and extol the virtues of a particular brand. In most cases, the online community includes mechanisms such as blogs, ...

[www.opensimulator.org] Opensim has just released version 0.3 of their VE server …. I am looking forward to installing and exploring it …. I have version 0.2 running on a Mac machine with marginal success (I can only run it in sandbox mode and can not save inventory objects when they are made). MORE ON OUR ...

Or [www.youtube.com]

The Greensbush Labs fundamental principles (1) Greenbush is primarily a content provider (dealing in intellectual capitol) (2) "Most" content can be digitized (3) "Most" digital content can be delivered via the internet (4) "Most" people in the US have access to the internet (5) "Most" Greenbush Content can be delivered ANYWHERE … Now .. How ...

[www.teachers.tv] Video resources have never been so plentiful. Along with live streaming events here at Greenbush through GreenbushTV and our recorded content in the podcast directory …. resources like [www.teachers.tv] even give teachers more resources !

I was glad to see this – [regionalpreventioncenter.blogspot.com] – A great way to promote services and keep the community informed ! We are making progress, this is an example many more Greenbush Departments can use to communicate with customers both internally and externally !

Hosting your own 3D virtual environment will some day be as common as hosting a legacy web site via Apache (an open source web server) thanks to the OpenSim project. [excerpt via interview with Soft Linden - [tinyurl.com]] "OpenSim is a sort of doing a fresh public implementation of some of the stuff we havenÂ’t ...