Estonia, a small member state of the European Union with 1.3 million inhabitants living by the Baltic Sea, has since the 1990s been labelled as one of the leading “Information Age” countries, having a surprisingly high penetration rate of computer use and Internet. They’re very strong supporters of e-voting and e-government and known for their [...]

I just wished to thank all my friends that so nicely wished me a Merry Christmas!
For all of you and your families, my sincere wishes of a wonderful holiday!

Last year, American Apparel, a popular US clothes brand, opened a shop in Second Life with a lot of positive press. Avatars could get for a few L$ relatively faithful replicas of their clothes in SL. Their project lasted almost a year or so, and then, as they finished their experiment, it was shut down [...]

The SLogosphere has been busily trying to “interpret” the meaning of the Electric Sheep Company’s layoff of about a third of their workforce and since some of their projects are being shut down, there have been all kinds of wild speculations. There isn’t a real official press release about the layoff, just some comments from [...]

Prokofy Neva has released his predictions for 2008  which make for very interesting reading, even if his predictions for 2007 were actually not close to the mark, but made for interesting reading nevertheless.
Sadly, Typepad (the software his blog runs under) thinks that my comments are “spamming” (well, who knows…) so here follow my answers. Make [...]

Extropia DaSilva is back with another one of her fantastic essays. Enjoy! — Gwyn

In part one of this essay, we examined that most infamous of dystopian nanotech outcomes, the ‘grey goo’ of self-replicating machines. In this second part the view shall be widened as we examine how molecular manufacturing might affect society as a whole. [...]

Ana Lutetia tagged me!
Oh no! This means I now have to write eight things about myself, and tag another eight people to do the same. This is almost like spamming. Help!
Well, let’s start with the rules:

Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
People who are tagged need to write a post on their own [...]

I found this very interesting blog entry, thanks to my friends: http://youthedesigner.com/2007/11/30/20-horrible-habits-of-clients/
It’s done by a web designer, but it applies exactly to Second Life as well.
Customers are customers everywhere!

In my never-ending quest of looking for fashionable improvements (believe me, it can entertain me for ages ) I found out a cute thing about some fancy shoes: they have nice, realistic-sounding, heel-clicking sounds.
Sure, I know it’s a “novelty” item — it scares people off the first time you start nagging them with [...]

Every girl who tried a flexiskirt once (how can you resist not buying them…?) knows about the problem: they look fantastic when standing up, but completely nasty when sitting down.
The image here shows what happens. Flexiskirts, unlike mesh-based skirts (also known as ugly Linden skirts) simply don’t follow your avatar’s skeleton, but gravity. There is [...]