Blue Marble Project

Sustainable Industries has released their annual supplemental issue - 2009 Top 10 Green Building Products. Blue Marble Project is proud to have played a role in the creation of this year’s issue by supplying Sustainable Industries with the 3D computer models that were embedded in the downloadable PDF version of the issue. The 3D SketchUp models can also be downloaded from the Google 3D Warehouse.

Here’s a sample of one of this year’s winners - the T5 from Tennant Company:

We’re pleased to have the opportunity to present a course at the Mobius LA conference this upcoming Saturday, June 17. The course is entitled Using Web 3.0 Technologies to Promote Your Practice and AIA Members in attendance will earn 1.5 CE Credits.

Most of the Presentation will involve live demos of fancy schmancy online stuff but you can check out this copy of our presentation slides that we’ve conveniently posted here as a Google Presentation (how very 3.0 of us eh?).

Also in Web 3.0 fashion, Mike will be twittering from Mobius (you can follow him on twitter @MikeTadros) and if Mobius records the session we’ll post it to our YouTube page afterward.

To learn more about how you can expand your online presence by incorporating free Web 3.0 technologies into your marketing strategy, inquire about our in-person consulting services. Email us today at info@bluemarbleproject.com.

Google recently updated the Embed Code that users can copy from a 3D Warehouse model page which enables you to post an interactive 3D View of the model on any site (or blog).

Here’s a model we created recently for Dacor that includes installation information - could be a nice thing to have handy on the job site.

We’re certainly excited about this update as we think it only helps improve upon the many ways in which SketchUp models can be re-purposed as portable online media content.

Another exciting aspect to this recent update is the ability to quickly snatch the Google Earth Embed code for Geo Located models. This is a model of the Renaissance Montura LAX Hotel in Los Angeles, CA.

For more information about this 3D Warehouse feature you can check out this post on the Google SketchUp blog.

For the folks out there who are keeping score of their 3D Warehouse fame, you can toss out whatever spreadsheets you’ve been using to tally the weekly download stats of your models. Google has FINALLY pushed an update to the Warehouse stats that show aggregate download and chart past performance. Thanks to all the hard working, underappreciated guys and gals on the Warehouse team. This is something I know we’ve been bugging you about constantly for the past year and I know this was a tough problem. The stats charts looks great and the aggregate info is a tremendous improvement!

We’ll hold off for at least a week or two until we start bugging you again about getting aggregate stats for collections…

To read more about this feature update check out this post on the Google SketchUp blog.