Monthly Archives: March 2007
Home: No Place Like SL?
AN ESSAY BY EXTROPIA DaSILVA. Extropia’s back with more delightful reading — Gwyn It is a fair bet that any company releasing a 3D social space to be inhabited by customisable avatars, who shop for virtual furniture with which to furnish their similarly virtual houses is going to find itself compared to Second Life. And that is what has happened to Sony’s new online service for the PlayStation3, which it…
The Schism Around Voice: Multicasting vs. Broadcasting
Imagine that you would have an awesome technology that allowed you to create an universe you have just pictured in your mind, to the extent of detail you wish, and that you could get realistic characters walking around your universe, so perfect in its minutiae that their behaviour and looks would be completely impossible to distinguish from real human beings. Now imagine if that technology were available to everybody in…
UgoTrade — Crossing Digital Divides – tracking innovative uses of technology in new environments.
UgoTrade is yet another community of meta-thinkers about online communities and online business. From their site: “Ugonet.org is a free video/photo sharing site and social network for off the grid folks, social entrepreneurs, digital pioneers, traveler activists, anthropologists (pseudo or not), media makers – photographers, film makers, artists, and musicians world wide. Ugonet will be an online hub – a tool, knowledge base, showcase, and meeting place for everyone interested…
The Royal Opera House of Lisbon is back in-world!
Thanks to the fantastic people at Info Island, sponsored by the The American Library Association (ALA), namely Rain Noonan — who does opera singing iRL as well — Moon Adamant’s old project, the Royal Opera House of Lisbon (a building opened to the public in April 1755 and destroyed in the big Lisbon Earthquake of November 1755) is back again, this time on the ALA Arts Info Island sim, where…
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