scouta.com open for signup

Our startup web application is finally beginning to show some public face. Apart from the blog, the home page is now accepting emails from interested people.

So, if you’d like to be part of the private beta program for our web application scouta, please sign up now at scouta.com home page.

Nose to the grindstone

Where did this expression come from? :-)

Anyway, I’ve had the nose to the grindstone for some months now, holding down a London IT job while putting together our web startup (Web2Thing) and living life to the full in Brighton. It doesn’t leave that much time for blogging really…

However, things a re settling down a bit now, and the web startup is starting to look quite exciting on several fronts. There will be some announcements really soon on that score.

Yes, we have a name, and we’ll announce that soon. And about then, we’ll start talking about the product as well. It is exciting because it is still a very unique idea even though we’ve been stealthily working on it for about a year.

So.. more news soon!

Geek day/night/dinner in London

I’m going to head into London next Saturday June 17th for the @media Social and then stay on the for the Geek Dinner. Om Malik is also talking about doing something in London that day. So, will have to try and fit it all into the one afternoon.

[Update Fri 16/6:  Just planning my day tomorrow; it looks like the Geek Dinner and Om Malik event are indeed separate and both on tomorrow evening.  The Om event, codenamed Londom, is happening at at the Princess Louise (Holborn) from 7pm onwards, while the Geek dinner is scheduled for 6pm onwards at The Livery, 130 Wood Street, in the City of London, EC2V 6DL. Maybe the plan is to @media social first, catch the Geek dinner then head over to the Princess Louise later.  i'm sure the plan will evolve...]

Business Week on Second Life

Business Week Online article about business going on in Second Life: My Virtual Life.

Doing business in Second Life

Today, for the second time, I took part in a business meeting in Second Life. As we’ve grown used to IM and Skype for meetings, this was bound to be the next thing, taking it into a 3D avatar world.

As with IM and Skype, in Second Life you have to get familiar with the controls, and learn how to be expressive via your avatar. But once there and with practice, it starts to become more natural.

The next step is making things. I want to be able to build 3d objects to express ideas, then be able to hand them to people or point to them. The support is there in Second Life to do that. It is just going to take practice.
I get the feeling we are going to use this a lot for business in the future.

By the way, in Second Life I’m known as Gra Itoku. See you there sometime.

Where am I?

i’m experimenting with Plazes, a social networking site based around your current connected network location. You can see where others are connected around you, name networks yourself, and see maps of where you have been. All that sort of thing.

I’m thinking of using is for adding a bit of presence for folk I’m working with around the world. As we move around the world, plazes can be making maps of where I am, where I have been, etc.

Auto-stalking? Yep. It is a bit like that.

It might eventually freak me out and I’ll turn off the tracking. But for now, you can find me here.

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