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22 December
2006
Applications are now closed...
The form where you could apply yourself to join the Beta test for The Venice Project™ is now closed. Those that have already applied should either have received their invites now or will be in the very near future.
This doesn't mean you can't get to play with it, but you will need a direct invitation either from someone involved directly in the project or an existing beta test user that have been granted their own set of invitations. This is pretty much similar to the way that gmail was given wider exposure by Google.
So if you have already applied don't panic, you will get an invite. If you haven't then being nice to me probably isn't going to work (like that's a surprise). Yes I will invite people when I have spare invitations but I won't acknowledge it here and they're scarce even for me (for good reason).
I've seen pleadings for invites in a few places, JOS and one Ebay auction (nothing to do with us), which just goes to show that this method does work. Yes of course we want to create a buzz about The Venice Project but at the same time we do need to manage the ramp up.
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13 December
2006
You are cordially invited...
So yesterday evening with the usual attendant last minute quivers and quobbles around releasing we pushed out 0.7.1 and started increasing the number of possible users by sending invitations.
Releasing software is 50% anticipation and 50% dread, so today will be slightly unreal. Even if it is 0.7.1 and not 1.0 in a lot of ways we have made a 1.0 just because an ever larger population of users is going to be exposed to it and are going to be expecting 1.0 delivery.
So its keeping feet on the ground time.
Oh and watch the press.
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19 November
2006
And on the right...
I've added a new module thingy, which is the current collection of fellow travellers willing to be public about The Venice Project.
The chances are you'll find out different and probably more interesting things on these journals than mine (never did like that word blog), if only because they're all far friendlier than I am.
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18 November
2006
Like a Virgin, seen for the very first time
In many ways I'm loathe to speak too much about The Venice Project as an application until it really is public and available and people can have their own virgin experience.
You'll see a lot of the blogs talking perhaps about it being TV the way you want it, ( no onion rings please ), and that's one of the aims as is the encouraging of community behaviour. That, for me, isn't the first impact that people will get and which I try and retain and make myself remember when the damn thing doesn't work.
Unlike any other video experience on the net its not about downloads, its not about having an account (though we'll have them but they'll still be optional) and its not about watching stuttery first time run throughs then playing it again so you get it with a full buffer.
Its about starting it, a few seconds of black, and then TV, all the time. The first time you see that, that's your virginity lost.
One of the challenges following the first time is to try and keep that initial reaction throughout the experience, not by people thinking 'hey, this is amazing its still running' (that's the experience we have in developing and QA'ing it so you shouldn't have to), but by it fulfilling that initial promise both in the content that we deliver and in the ways that we deliver it.
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15 November
2006
No longer Super Secret, The Venice Project
So, the veil is lifting the image in the crystal ball is sharpening and now I can reveal.
That the Super Secret Project is....
So, this may or may not mean anything to you, so a short precis follows.
The Venice Project is a product development based on lots of open source projects, proprietary gubbins and whatchamacallits to provide TV across the Internet. A TV experience on your computer.
You can queue up for the invitational betas, tokens and such at http://www.theveniceproject.com
More later...
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