Saturday, June 14, 2008

Google SketchUp Basecamp 2008 presentation

Thanks to everyone that attended our Google SketchUp Basecamp 2008 presentation! We've included our slideshow below. Please contact us at info@igloostudios.com with any questions.



For more photos from Google SketchUp Basecamp, check out this SketchUp Photo Blog.

2 comments:

JASR said...

Dear Mike,

Can you tell me where to confirm (more or less) this info "Over 100 BMP's are signed up for the 3D Warehouse. Thousands of Architects and designers are using SketchUp, and millions of people visit Google Earth each and every day. If your products or projects aren't in these places, you're missing out. oh, and lest we forget that google is still the #1 search engine and people use that alot too."

I search for this reference:
"immersive multi-threaded network of information" but didn´t find about it.

I have been looking for some info like this since a year ago to sell my sketchup services in Mexico, without succes.

Regards

Mike Tadros said...

Jasr,

Thanks for the questions. the information we referenced was based on the following:

To see a fairly updated list of companies that have begun uploading SketchUp models of the products that they manufacture to the Warehouse you can click here to visit the official Building Product Manufacturers Collection:
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/cldetails?mid=5ab1f8c0846734ee4f78b7b58252a6e9&ct=hpr2

The SketchUp usage stats are based on the traffic we get on our SketchUp training website www/go-2-school.com. We don't have access to download or usage stats for SketchUp.

The GE stat was a guestimate based on the number of downloads:
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2008/02/new_stats_for_google_earth_over_350.html
again, we don't have access to download or usage statistics for Google Earth either.

The Comment about multi-threaded networks of information is something I talked a little bit about during the presentation. The YouTube Video of the presentation that we posted to the blog probably does a better job of explaining it than I would do by typing it out. It's really just a way that we think about sharing information. There's probably not really a technical definition anywhere. We were just trying to give a name to a broader concept of putting different kinds of information in different places and then linking it all together so that it's easy for people to get from one thing to the next, depending on the information they're looking for.