After quite a few discussions, some with our new "technosocial strategist", Jerry Michalski (of Release 1.0 fame), we've decided to delay the public Tidepool release until we've smoothed over the Storymill side of things. This release was supposed to be about Tidepool alone, with Storymill merely acting as a public place to put your photos. With a bit more work...
post 100 22-Jun-04
This is the hundredth post on this blog, which may not seem a big deal to those accustomed to blogs with ten quick paragraphs a day, but it feels like an accomplishment to me. In the last seven months, I've kept to no more than one post a day, trying to make each post its own little standalone written work,...
semantic juxtaposer 13-Jun-04
As we're writing the press release for the impending Tidepool release, the issue of what category to give it has again resurfaced. Believe it or not, we're leaning towards "semantic juxtaposer" or "juxtaposer". Given that "juxtapose" just got picked as one of Merriam Webster's Top Ten Favorite Words for 2004, this further seals the deal. :) What do you think?...
release early, release often 08-Jun-04
One of the software publishing maxims we believe strongly is "release early, release often." While many software publishers have release cycles of a year or greater, at Immuexa, we've committed to a seasonal release cycle: once every three months, near the start of each new season. From here on out, you can expect a new public release of Tidepool and...
tidepool preview is now available 25-May-04
After yet another 4am grudge match with both Tidepool and Storymill.net, we're (mostly) ready for the world to see what we've done so far. You can download the Tidepool preview by visiting: http://storymill.net Details on Tidepool and Storymill can also be found at the site. There's also a Flash demo if you don't have time to install the actual program....
sustained release 21-May-04
Here's a photo of me and Jon "finishing up" Tidepool in the "Cyber Cafe" this afternoon, while across the hall the conference was officially closing. Eight hours later we're still at it, mostly struggling with issues that weren't originally scheduled for this release, such as uploading the w3photo stuff to storymill. We've been very close to good enough for hours...
solitaire saves the semantic web 11-May-04
My wife plays Solitaire incessantly. She's got a PhD and a professor's schedule, but nearly every time I look over at her laptop, she's reflexively sorting cards into piles, playing Freecell or some variation. She tells me it relaxes her, which seems reasonable enough, even if my idea of relaxing involves a dark room and a soft pillow. She's not...
toboggan run 01-May-04
While outside it's been a warm inviting Spring, inside we've been driven by single focus, aimed at our product launch in June. Others sometimes call this the "death march" period, which personally I think is disrespectful of those forced to take real deach marches. Besides, death marches are usually considered unhealthy and ultimately counter-productive. Instead, I prefer to call our...
immuexa sixth 21-Mar-04
After scrambling for days toward an ambitious release date, we managed today to pull the pieces together enough for our first private release of Tidepool. At the very last minute, we discovered a showstopper bug having to do with Java Web Start. I was actually about to press "Send" on the announcement email, then we found it. Ah well. At...
fun with categories 17-Mar-04
Writing the website text for Tidepool, I'm realizing that people may have a tough time putting the product into an established software category. If PC Magazine were to include us in an "Editor's Choice" roundup, I'm not sure which category we'd be in. Tidepool's a semantic browser, a digital media organizer, an instant messaging client, an authoring tool, a contact...
FOAF'ed from the get-go 11-Mar-04
I started this blog in November with the goal of posting once a day, which I kept to for two months, then settled into a rhythm of once every five days. Now that we're trudging hip-deep through the project, it's harder to make time to write. It's even harder to find time to research and reflect on the Semantic Web...
the promise of spring 06-Mar-04
This morning my house is surrounded by fog so thick it's hard to see the ground from my upstairs window. I can almost feel the earth drinking in the needed moisture this wet morning. In recent weeks, the weather has been getting warmer. The highest, most stubborn, snow drifts are completely melted. We even went geocaching last weekend. For those...
Tidepool™ 01-Mar-04
To avoid brand confusion with the Wavemarket products, we've decided against the name Waveplace for our desktop app. We've picked another name we like even better: Tidepool™ Tidepool lets you collect, organize, describe, and browse your personal memories, such as digital photographs, movies, sound clips, and stories. With Tidepool, you can tell the who, what, where, and, when of it,...
interview followup 20-Feb-04
Hi <first name>, I enjoyed our phone talk the other day. Here are a few thoughts before our next call. First, to review, Tidepool™ is our desktop application (built with Java) that people will use to organize their photos & memories. It's in the same marketing space as Adobe Photoshop Album and Apple iPhoto, though we have no illusions of...
the new name 16-Feb-04
Today, after five weeks of obsessive product name uncertainty, our team finally agreed on a new name to replace Akimbo for our desktop application: Waveplace™. Along the way, we considered 137 names, of which eight were given serious consideration. In the end, we went back to a name we already had. I thought of the name Waveplace in June of...
first florida sunrise 17-Jan-04
I lived in Florida for a few years in my mid-twenties in a town called Bonita Springs, between Naples and Fort Myers, just south of Sanibel. It's where I started my first business in 1989, hoping to create something like the web. It's where I first faced the business world as an adult, where I took my first "slings and...
semantic redundancy 14-Jan-04
Last night, I was driving around in a snowstorm, trying to think of a new name for our desktop product. The name game can drive you nuts. It's best to think of it as a game you play for fun, like Concentration or Password. There's a continuum of obviousness when it comes to naming products. Years ago, when trying to...
The Name Game 12-Jan-04
What's in a name? Well, when you're selling something, quite a lot. A good product name can focus people on your core benefit. It can crystallize the characteristics that set you apart from your competitors. Names can be inspiring, inviting, intriguing. Most of all, they can make money, which is why trademarks are their own little turf war. Today we...
the you in what you leave 06-Jan-04
I started a science fiction story back in 1986 about a small device called an "Immuexus", which was essentially a tablet computer with a semantic user interface. Instead of a mouse or touchpad, the user used a special pen that served three purposes: first, it was used as a pointer for the screen, much like a mouse; second, it could...
meta madness 01-Jan-04
Tonight I found myself wondering in Wegmans, an incredibly overstocked and expensive supermarket, waiting for my wife to finish shopping while I mulled over some design quandaries having to do with our current project. We're trying to match our existing object model with RDF, since we'd like to leverage as much of the power of RDF and related technologies as...
project realize: vision 22-Dec-03
Our lives are what we remember. Our culture, our society, our heritage: it's the knowledge we share that defines us. Memories and imaginings form the substance of our shared humanity. Preserving and publishing our memories, whether the story of our individual lives or the history of our neighborhoods, is a profound and necessary endeavor, for it brings us together as...
Tidepool™ and Storymill™ 21-Dec-03
Today my company, Immuexa, formally begins "Project Realize", our own attempt to bring Semantic Web goodness to everyone. Our plan is to develop and market two software products that share the same purpose: helping people organize, explore, and share their digital memories. Tidepool™ (formerly Akimbo and Waveplace) is a desktop application that can be run on any computer. Storymill™ is...
Granny Goes Digital 29-Nov-03
The idea for my company's current project began in January 1999 while I was trying to teach my mom, Rosemary, how to email photos taken with her new Kodak digital camera. The software that came with it was called PictureEasy, and was pretty easy. Of the two dozen photo programs I've used since, it was probably the best for her,...
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