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It’s a Sunday. It’s raining. There’s a storm blowing through. You would think I’d have some time for an elaborate and imaginative example of a custom Vulcan component. Today however, aside from taking two-thirds of my children ice-skating, I thought I’d pick the simplest possible component as an example of…

Vulcan is based on a flexible canvas design paradigm. Each canvas plays host to a number of different objects, or nodes, each of which has a specific role, presentation and functional capabilities. In this post we take a look at the core objects that you’ll find from the outset in…

A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away… Vulcan is unique because it delivers on both high level visualisation and deep long form text documents, all in service of a new paradigm in contextual information management. A power feature of Vulcan, is the editor. It’s very similar to one of the best editors out there at the moment…

In order to understand how Vulcan works, let’s first agree some common language and terminology for the core concepts. The User identity runs through every aspect of Vulcan. Users have, by default, an Individual Account. This is a private environment for you to test Vulcan and collect your personal knowledge. …

Vulcan is our latest and greatest invention — and I’m so delighted to share it with you. As we start a new decade, what could be better than sharing news of something we’ve been working quietly and steadily working on this year. Vulcan represents a paradigm shift in information management. It gives regular folk like you (and me) access to the information superpowers that were originally reserved…

We don’t really do VR development professionally — not yet anyway — but that doesn’t stop us being extremely enthusiastic about the technology and media platform that it represents. The complete IMMERSIVE SPECTRUM fascinates me. …

Here at Beach, we work with pre-seed, seed and series-A stage technology startups as well as with innovation teams in later stage startups and larger enterprises, that are effectively operating like earlier stage startups. You know the common theme runs through all of our startup clients? Uncertainty, plain and simple. Everything is up in the air. Everything is subject to change. Everything is scenario-driven, parameterised with…

A couple of years ago, I wrote an article here for Chatbot Magazine about how I designed chatbots, and inherently “conversations”, using a visual collaboration and white-boarding tool called Mural. I wrote this article at a time when I was building Facebook Messenger bots, using a node.js application and callbacks…