• WHOLELOOK - PERSONAL
• Whereas programmers and others were involved with Look.com in the past,
Look Venture's
WholeLook project is mainly the brain child and labour of
Delahnnovahh-Starr Livingstone. Mr. Livingstone is not known for
earned degrees or a distinguished career in a professional capacity, rather he
is exceptionally well known amongst his friends and associates for
exhibiting a marked penchant for seeing creative potentials before the
fact.
Livingstone often uses the common name Cliff. His entertaining
autobiographical writings have been
under the pseudonym 'Cliff Livingstone', under the collective tile
'CliffR Project'.
•
PHILOSOPHY
• Mr. Livingstone spent
four years at the University of British Columbia in the earlier
sixties. He did not graduate. The first three years were spent
in a program of honours Math and Physics, The fourth year was in
Honours Philosophy.
At the end of four years
Mr. Livingstone was short science courses for a Bachelor of Science
degree at the one end, and Arts courses for a Bachelor of Arts degree
at the other.
He did however manage to glean an A++ in a mid term
Philosophy essay in his fourth year, the first such A++ the Department
had ever issued in its entire history up to that time. He had also
been offered a fellowship for a Masters degree in Philosophy at La
Jolla California, which had just opened for its first year subject to
earning his Bachelors.
Mr. Livingstone instead took a year out. Through the twists and turns
of life he never went back.
• ROCK BAND
• Circa
end of 1966, in Vancouver British Columbia, Mr. Livingstone was instrumental in assembling a small group
of musicians into a hippie Rock and Roll Band called Mother Tuckers Yellow
Duck. MTYD was musically at least twenty years ahead of it's time. The
musicians had been hand picked for their particular playing styles which
were each outside of norm.
Hearing
them proves the point. Sadly, psychedelics intervened and MTYD never
became widely known.
((Details - MTYD).
• FLOWER SELLING IN BARS AND TAVERNS
•
Prior to 1971, flower selling table to table in restaurants was
limited to flower girls in long dresses carrying a wide wicker basket of Roses
and Carnations, Vending was limited to the higher end restaurants and
lounges of the time. Nobody but nobody but nobody sold flowers through
common bars and taverns
as they would have been eaten alive.
In 1971, Mr. Livingstone through
a small group of friends, started selling flowers out a big vase
through bars, restaurants, and taverns all across Canada and parts the
states. Flower selling in bars and taverns is now part of the local
scene in most cities in North America and abroad.
(Details -
Flowers).
• LOUDSPEAKER DESIGN
•
Mr. Livingstone originally became interested in Hi Fi sound, particularly at the
loudspeaker end of things in the mid nineteen fifties. In 1984 he had a patent
approved for a new Hi Fi speaker principle which had not been
suspected by the industry. For lack of funds the patent itself was never filed and the
principle itself has still not been discovered by the industry based
on current literatures. Leaving Mr. Livingstone with a completely viable new loudspeaker
discovery still to be patented.
(Details
- Loudspeakers).
• RING WORLD TEXT EDITOR
•
In 1986, Mr. Livingstone's brother commenced
the development of an all new text editor which was very very advanced
for it's time. Mr. Livingstone did the documentation and helped input
many of its unique and time saving features.
The editor was called Ring World, and was
capable of doing things very easily which the other editors and word
processors of the time such as Word Perfect could only do with great
effort or could not do at all. Today, Microsoft Word is still
able to do only some of the things Rings World does trivially easy, or
it can't
do them at all.
Ring
World was only seen be a small handful of people, and is still being
used by some of them in applications which Word etc. can't even
approach. It is Mr. Livingstone and his brother's plan someday to have Ring World migrated up
into a full Word Processor boasting its exclusive features. The advent
of Web Site development, with the addition of WYSIWYG features such as
with Microsoft Front Page, provides yet another valuable venue for Ring
World to be exploited as a very advanced and simple to use Website editor for
armatures and professionals alike.
• EARLY WEBSITE INNOVATION
•
Near the end of 2003,
Livingstone in collaboration with an adept website programmer, had
been in the process of launching a new version of www.Look.com. The
site featured the then novel technique, pioneered by MyWay.com, of
removing or bringing back parts of the web site the viewer wasn't
interested in.
The new
version of Look.com also featured the entirely new ability to allow viewers
the ability to
select their own color themes for the website.
(Details -
New Version of Look.com).
In 2006 or thereabouts Yahoo presented the exact
same colour selection principle
as a novel new feature in a redo of its homepage. Over time it has
migrated to the version now offered under the 'Change Appearance
option, under My Yahoo! in Yahoo.com.
As discussed in
Background', Mr. Livingstone and his brother
ended up losing ownership of Look.com through
malfeasance.
At the
time, Mr. Livingstone was also advocating the employment of Pay
Per Click search results for revenue.
A white paper from the end of
2002 predicted the potential for search engine revenue, which proved
out sensationally when Google and Yahoo finally embraced the Pay Per
Click system and saw their annual returns change overnight from
hundreds of millions in the red to billions in the black.
• CURRENT WEBSITE INNOVATIONS
•
WholeLook.com will be the first website offering the user the ability
to create their own home page website and preferences from scratch
rather than just removing or bringing back parts of an existing
website. WholeLook also provides full portal translation capabilities
in 54 languages. WholeLook will be the first website which is truly Universal
in scope and theme rather than just as a one feature project targeted to a
specific market or internet demographic.
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