GroupVille 3.1.5 is the last maintenance release for all GV3 customers before migration. Due to changes in Apple's enterprise product offerings announced in Q4 2010 (Xserve hardware/Java on Mac OSX), GroupVille 3 is no longer offered to new clients.
Technology used: WebObjects for Java
LaPlanet - Web Community & Blog System
LaPlanet was a web-based community software for desktop and mobile clients.
The first version of LaPlanet (1999) had a 3D interface where people could build community houses on planet systems. It was never released due to bandwith and marketing concerns (dependence on online ads).
LaPlanet v2 is a simplified version, can run decentralized on customer servers and has a more traditional HTML interface. LaPlanet is done in cooperation/programmed by Classiccom based in Lausanne, Switzerland.
LaPlanet allows groups of people ('tribes') sharing common interests to exchange and share ideas and over the Internet and publish personal and group blogs.
Technology used: .NET
Sendai Studios
Z - Positive Entertainment
Project Z mixes real and virtual worlds providing both entertainment and humanitarian values.
Z Design was started in 2004.
Z will feature the first "tangible" products ever produced by Sendai.
Technology used: Sphere Design and Magic
Sendai Research provides Custom Consulting:
- General Technology Scenarios for various Sectors (Classic Future Studies)
- General Technology Intelligence and Reporting regarding
- Area Strategies / Policies (Asia ex Japan - Japan - Western Europe - North America)
- Disruptive Technologies (Focus on Energy, Technology, Research Policy)
- New Technology Ventures (Private Sector)
In addition, we provide custom detailed reports in the following three areas:
- Technology IPOs and exchange-listed company analysis/valuations
- Wireless / Mac OS X / iOS Applications (Consumer and Business) and Digital Entertainment sector analysis/valuations
- Alternative Energy IPOs and exchange-listed company analysis/valuations
Sample News are available in free blog (TalesFromTheFuture) and Twitter (@talesftf) format. Custom or extended Sendai Research Reports in electronic formats (PDF) are available on a yearly subscription basis for USD 499 (Individuals) and USD 999 (Organizations).
Additonal Consulting Services are available for a flat fee of USD/CHF 100/first day. This allows new customers to evaluate our services with no strings attached/questions asked.
If you like our work and decide to use our services we only charge a small hourly expense fee of USD/CHF 100/hour plus a performance fee based on post-consulting performance and customer project/company size.
We do not believe in traditional high hourly fees because we think this sets the wrong incentives and is not in the customer best long-term interests.
We thus burden the risks on advice improving your competitive position or knowledge: Sendai Research Customers only pay minimal hourly expenses upfront - and the performance-based post consulting in case we help you attain or or even exceed your defined goals and expectations.
Another example where Sendai - true to its Mission Statement - sets itself apart from traditional thinking.
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