What is happening down at the Labs?

It has been a bit quiet here on the blog. What’s been happening down at Presence Labs? Well here’s the list that makes up for a month of blog entries:

• We’ve almost completed moving to the UK, with most things firmly nailed down. We’ve set up in Brighton (new contact details here) and apart from another cubic yard of required paperwork and a 20ft container full of furniture, we are, as they say, sorted.
• We are working in partnership with Richard Giles’ Clique Communications developing a very exciting, new (and thus currently secret) web and media application that we hope to bring fully to life this year. More on that as we can talk about it, probably when we get to a public beta or something. The concept is exciting and as we develop and test more of the components of the whole, it gets more and more exciting.
• There’s a bit of action emerging here in the UK for us to help with architecture and development for new web applications. It’ll be interesting to see just what happens here.
• Given the interest in new web applications, I’m putting a bit of thought into a methodology specific to the creation and development of new web applications from the innovation at the beginning to the operation at the end. Philosophically I’m fairly close to the 37 Signals Getting Real way of thinking, but I do like development to be a bit more controlled, at least based around a strong and up to date roadmap. Anyway, I’ll post that when I get it slightly more organised and hopefully can develop with others.
• I’m working with a group doing interesting things for business in Second Life. The part of this I’m really interested in is forging links between Second Life and the rest of the internet, to make Second Life connected rather than a somewhat-disconnected island application.

That sounds like a lot, but there’s room for more. We are looking for like minded people to work with on new web applications. So, if you have an idea and some funding, come and have a chat, let’s see if we can make your dream real.