Just imagine
I’m not exactly sure what this is all about. Or what it has to do with GE. But I know I like it.
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I’m not exactly sure what this is all about. Or what it has to do with GE. But I know I like it.
Wow! Did you see all the tools you can use? The very last pen style is pretty cool. The longer you dwell on a spot, the larger the dots get.
Superficially, all it is is an online whiteboard that anyone can get to, but the overall goal is to see how Macromedia Flash web based collaborative tools work in the real world. Those tools exists to round out tele- and video conferencing capabilities. With them, business meetings over video or shared telephone lines can do more than just hold things up to the camera; they can execute them on a person’s computer screen. All that person needs is an internet connection and a web browser.
In this freebie taste, all you can do is draw, basically, but you can share that drawing with someone in Singapore, Tahiti, London, whatever. Again, all they need is a web connection and browser.
Anyway, a shared virtual whiteboard presented like it is on the page you’re linking is no more than an “massive multiplayer” online graffiti wall – you don’t see any other collaboration tools, like Powerpoint windows, or filesharing links. On a demo environment like that, they’re not going to implement such features. But anyway, behind the scenes, the administrators are learning about the issues in implementing Flash based collaborative tools. We on this side may just doodle with it, but that page is there as much to show the implementation team what happens on the back end when people use it all over the world as it is to show us in UserLand what it can do, albeit only in a limited fashion.
No, I’m not part of GE; I have no affiliation with them whatsoever. But, I work for a university that just implemented Macromedia/Adobe Breeze, which is basically the enterprise version of what you’re seeing on that webpage, except it has much more stuff built in, like video, file, and (computer) desktop sharing. So I’ve gone through this stuff for the past year & a half. It’s sorta burned into my cerebral cortex right now and spills out at the slightest provocation. 🙂
Anyway, that’s what it has there for: To advertise “collaboration” (if random, surf-by acts of graffiti shared with others online can be considered “collaboration’ 🙂 ), and to give the guys charged with implementing it an idea of how it functions when actually used by other people.
OK. I give. What is that all about? I used to work at GE and it was very solid at that time. Don’t make us call back Neutron Jack and kick some a@@.
Oh dear Lord! They want to charge $15 per half hour??!!
http://www2.townonline.com/wellesley/opinion/view.bg?articleid=579665
“The feature uses Imagination Cubed whiteboard technology, which allows one-on-one interaction online at the cost of $15 per 30-minute increment.”
Book,
Thamks for the link..
Interesting — because as a former computer programmer, I look at every new innovation and wonder, “How did the programmer do that?”
Usually I can look at the HTML or Script source code and figure it out — but this time I am flummoxed!
Great stuff!
ExP (Jack)
“The feature uses Imagination Cubed whiteboard technology, which allows one-on-one interaction online at the cost of $15 per 30-minute increment.”
ElMondoHummus | 09.21.06 – 6:06 pm | #
Considering what business travelers pay for hotels and airplane tickets, 15 dollars for like a 2 hour to 4 hour meeting is nothing.
I think it’s a good PR website for GE, as it obviously advertises GE’s as someone you want to do business with.