Friday, July 31, 2009

Somewhat unsurprisingly...

I'm going to have to give the uni avenue up, at least for Spring session.

I had a talk the University's Director of Corporate Relations because I was given his contact details as someone who had industry contacts. On 13 July, he sent a message to the Informatics Faculty's Manager of Innovation and Commercialisation (someone with whom I already had contact with earlier) who didn't get round to contacting me directly until I called him on Tuesday 28 July.

I don't think there'll be enough time for me now to talk about equitable terms to share Clique Space with the University before 8 August, the time by which I need to enrol for Spring session. Hence, I'm going to give up again. House of mirrors.

Maybe next session... maybe never. If someone doesn't help me properly by 15 July 2010 Clique Space (now an internationally recognised prior art) goes begging.

We'll all see what happens here...

Owen.

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

The First Media Profile

Media Profiles are a central component to my implementation of the Clique Space(TM - can't do that too often) concept.

Any device that wants to talk to a Clique Space must connect to it through a suitable Media Profile, a customisation of the elements that Clique Space uses to represent various physical and conceptual artefacts in the world that it models. The first Media Profile that I am crafting will model the Clique Space implementation itself so a Clique Space system can model the cooperation of its own component devices. Without casting disrespect to Americans, I hesitate to use an American cliché. Alas, no other phrase seems appropriate for this context: This is very neat.

I might be a bit of a smarty pants.

Friday, July 17, 2009

The possibility of business startup support at uni.

Spring session at my local uni begins in two Monday's time. I think I've done two subjects toward a coursework postgraduate degree. I'm not too hot on progressing this coursework degree because I think I have jumped over, round, and through enough obstacles now. I think that I might want to do research on something that interests me. Even though one has tried to appeal to various academics at the uni for supervision in a research-based degree where Clique Space(TM) was the topic, none have offered to be a supervisor.

I have become aware of the possibility, if I were to re-enrol in my coursework masters, of attracting some access to business start-up resources offered through the university. Hence, I think I might take one subject next session. As a coursework student, the work that I'll be doing is only going to drain time that I'll need to work on Clique Space, so I don't find this idea of coursework to be very attractive.

Hence, the only reason I am considering re-enrolment is to get access to these promised business development resources. If this access doesn't materialise, I'll see no reason in being a student in a coursework degree.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Clique Space and A Lucky Country.

I am Australian. It's good to be Australian.

I grew up in Wollongong, and consider this urban offshoot from Sydney (separated by an escarpment that runs between Stanwell Park and Helensburgh) my home.

People that have been in leadership positions to me (employers and politicians) have conspired (either with intent or through ignorance) to get me to live in Sydney. I have tried more than once to please the forces that cajole me in to a foreign urbanity, but each time I have tried, the same result has eventuated: I have become a scared, cowering shadow, haggered from intense social interaction and chronic displacement.

I got interested in software development when I was 12 because I could see it as a great way to do something interesting, whilst keeping away from others, and the intense demands of having to interact socially. On the other hand, I often feel lonely. This is not because of my preference for solitude, but because others appear to find my preference for solitude as hard to understand as I find their preference for chronic socialisation hard to understand.

Never have I warmed to the thought of living the life of a corporate nomad that proponents of the software development industry would currently advocate is necessary to produce good software. I want to work from home, and I won't take a job that does not allow me to do this. So, I came up with Clique Space before I named it Clique Space, in about July or August 2004 on a rainy day while I was jogging north along the cycleway between Bellambi and Bulli. I don't yet know whether or not it is good or crap, but it seems that no one's tried it before either, so no one knows.

By January 2008, I'd kept an eye open, but hadn't seen anything that might approach what I had conceived nearly three and a half years before. Armed with a part-time 30 hours/week software developer's job in Wollongong, I decided to register it, and claimed January 15 2008 as my priority date.

My patent is now a PCT which will be published in six days time. It is my best attempt at claiming this concept as my own. I think I have spent not less than 10,000 dollars to get it to this stage. I left my part-time position in Wollongong, because this employer started to dicate the terms of my employment. I have no more money to move my concept further than this, but I believe I might have just enough time to convince people who do have money and contacts (better people than me) of this concept's efficacy. I'm currently developing a proof of this concept in Java on my laptop.

We'll see...

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Clique Space(TM)

I'm not sure if this is going to last, but here's to try.

I suppose this blog will be my attempt to showcase my current exploits in getting an idea I call Clique Space to the masses. It might be more (or less) than this, depending on what how I might find myself with Clique Space in a little over a year from now. I have registered a PCT which will be published next Wednesday 15 July. I have 12 months from then to find some one or more backers who can help me realise the idea as I have envisaged.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Will I care enough to have one of these? The prognosis doesn't look good...