Back from the future

Hello again,  lots of news to catch up in 7 years.

After Google cancelled Wave we re-implemented a lesser version in Gadgets which displayed the voice message playlist, then Google canceled Gadgets so we built our own infrastructure to replace Wave and added the roster back into our new "home-brewed" Wave-style gadget.

This lead to Group Voicechat while the playlist evolved into Pageview. We combined everything into Verbol voice Studio, an experimental assembly of tools to explore voice communication built on three open source servers, Apache, Asterisk and Open-fire with a lot of our PHP glue. We used Vv Studio ourselves to record our daily project conversations and they are all available online indexed by utterance. During this project we were using many prototyped improvements and were thereby "workig in the future"

The agile development of a lot of new software in parallel by several developers and its complexity made Vv unstable so we froze its functionality and spent a year improving performance and removing bugs and finally reached our "holy grail" of getting autochat to work. This allows people in a conference call who have a thought at the sane time to speak without interrupting each other or anyone on the call missing anything said. We invested in patenting it.

Autochat represents a new level of proven invention that I personally find very fulfilling as my career has placed me on a lot of conference calls where I am always faced with the choice of listening and losing my thought or speaking and missing someone else's. As WebRTC was being adopted in web browsers I asked a genius friend Tim Panton to try re-creating the autochat experience in a browser using peer to peer mode.

Tim took up the challenge and created our Unrupt prototype which implements the same experience of autochat using buffering in the browser. This achieves in under 1000 lines of JavaScript what took three open source servers, a hundred thousand lines of our glue code and years to implement in client server mode.

Tim also built into the Unrupt prototype wisdom from his experience in security and IOT so we can use the prototype for the Unrupt experience without collecting any personal information; so Tim  has produced a truly remarkable seed for further development. which I whole-heartedly acknowledge

All the genius developers I know personally are busy right now so I am about to appeal to the open source community to advance the Unrupt Project. Open source development and personal use are free and we charge only for a patent license for commercial use. To gain attention we are about to launch an Indiegogo campaign to create awareness and offer a Proprietor License at a very reasonable price for any indiviual who wishes to earn by distributing their resulting App.

We are also looking into Corporate licensing registered by blockchain as these features would fit well into many existing products and we wish the open source community to derive opportunity from technology transfer into such Corporations.

Here is a link to the Preview of our Campaign called Unrupt our Conversations. I would appreciate any feedback on that in the first instance to br@brianreynolds.com then if you wish we can set up to speak on an unrupt call by sharing a link and coordinating when we each click it:)

Hi again, its been a while since my last post. We were very busy readying Verbol VoiceChat for Wave and we reached the Wave extensions gallery the first week of last August when Google announced that Wave would be shut down. So in the spirit of try try again we are now readying our independently hosted Verbol voice using Google gadgets and starting to preview it. Brian.

Now at verbol.com

We are now using the demo.verbol.com for our demo voice system and in process of converting our web pages to reflect this. Our voice system uses Verbol Web Server to store information created by Voicechat.

Wave

We have become very caught up with Google Wave and have a link to our first public wave with VoiceChat and some blog links at demo.verbol.com.

If you have a wave account you can also share a wave with me and I can add our voicechat gadget to the wave so we have a time independent voice conversation.

So much has happened since our last post. I will follow up with a catch up on the news but now, a demo:-

Demo

I am demonstrating a preview of the ibook voice system V3.0 at voice.ibook.com. If you go there and enter br, you reach my ibook identity which tells you how to call me and leave voicechat messages in my daily journal.

Meet you there. Brian.

NB. Please be aware the demo is open without password restriction though not yet publicised. We have licencing and patents so I am OK with this from a technology point of view. More on how to use the system is at Brian Reynolds ibook identity and this tells you how to call or Skype me free of charge. Please do so if it is not obvious how to proceed.

I am looking for help to takes this further so we can enable voice to be as ubiquitous as text, see Invitation.

Marketing

I just used our voicecht demo to record my thoughts on network marketing and related subjects stimulated by Ray's question, “Have you thought of using a viral marketing approach?” They are playable from my journal page and the red phone link starting at message 2774 should play them to you through your browser and allow you to reply at any point with your thoughts.

Skype case now resolved so this is here solely for interest

I am working on an open letter to Skype and its founders and owners and my thinking relates to the open cooperative approach I am describing in my voice notes as Family Systems' direct market model for Personal Systems (as opposed to our OEM model for selling add-on features to web services companies which I also describe).

In this case I am considering suggesting that Skype support a cooperative add-on to supplement the Joltid proprietary one so the customer can choose and having the choice allows Skype to revert in reasonable stages to the terms of its agreement with Joltid. If you have any feedback please contact me via the ibook voice system described above or email br@ibook.com.

Interesting background, Computerworld comment , Skype at Wikipedia.

A few things have happened recently.

You may have seen www.brianreynolds.biz and some of the linked pages. Quite a bit has been added to the Voicechat page including an outline of the opportunity to participate now.

I have collected together various design notes into a draft Verbol page which I am in process of editing. The notes were written separately as thoughts occurred to me and I have done some initial editing so they are loosely grouped and have a contents list for navigation so they are OK for briefing and talking over the ideas. I am thinking about implementing Verbol in Javascript and would like to bounce some ideas around with a Javascript expert.

A COOPYtunities page has been started, linked to from Invitation which introduces COOPY and some opportunities to cooperate. Some rationalisation with the other pages is needed, but it should give an idea.

I added more songs to uplay2 and created four song pages in a format I am putting forward for feedback. These include Youtube videos of performances with the uplay2 prompts embedded in lyrics displayed as subtitles. I have been told these are more fun to play along to than games as you are making music with a real instrument. These are in effect a prototype of the Family Systems play-along invention and I am looking for cooperation in implementing it further.

Patent news is at the foot of this page Family Systems Patent Filings.
Following the first play-along U.S. Patent 7423214 which was issued in Sept 2008, we have filed two further Playalong continuation patent applications one of which covers the prototype used in Uplay2. We are also working on a response to the examiner's recent rejection of the first Web Collaboration patent filing which he has based on a combination of two separate prior inventions.

If you are interested in contributing, please email me br@brianreynolds.biz and let me know whether you Skype or are available by phone.

Work Experience

I just created a Work Experience page for www,brianreynolds.biz.

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