Making Meetings Better
Check out this recent post in Dave Berlind's TestBed Blog Demo out of Sun’s Labs proves the best tech of all is the one you forget is there that describes the Sun Labs Meeting Suite - a project by the Collaborative Environments team here in Sun Labs. In his blog, Dave is brimming with enthusiasm for this project. He says: ...I'm fairly certain I saw for the first time since I started writing about technology in 1991, a communications technology that makes you forget that the communications taking place are being assisted by technology: and a rocket science-like technology at that. It was a real glimpse into a future where technology is a seamless and transparent part of what we do, rather than something that requires a lot of frustrating knobs and levers to make it do our bidding.
Dave's
right, the Collaborative Environments team has put together a really
compelling system for improving distributed meetings. The folks on
this team are hyper-creative and execute really well - not
only do they put together a good demo - but the systems that they build
are solid - not pieced together with glue and duct tape like many
demos.