Blasts from the past: read this very interesting article from legendary John Markoff, written in 1996. Ok, so he was talking about VRML, but look closely about the references he has given for the “future of the Internet” in shopping experience. Second Life users will find this article boring — […]
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The next meeting of the Local Government Study Group will be this Sunday, the 15th of April 2007, at 12.30PM SLT at the Sunbelt Software Auditorium. This will be part II of the discussion on the benefits of local governance. Note that this will not be a meeting to discuss […]
This was my April Fool’s Day article for 2007, which even gathered a few comments 🙂 Sorry to disappoint you, guys, but no, Microsoft is not running for the Metaverse — not yet 🙂 — Gwyn The recent announcement of Microsoft Metaverse, due to be launched in July 2007, after […]
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 […]
There was quite a lot of waiting on Gravatar 2.0, but it’s finally out! It features a cool cropping tool that will allow you to upload an image of any size and don’t worry much about the proper format; it’ll resize it to whatever you fancy. Gravatars, like OpenID, are […]
Sorry for the brief interruption. WordPress 2.1 is out and it seems to have a better way to deal with the huge amount of spam I’m receiving at this moment, so I’m trying to do an upgrade. My apologies if the site is unresponsive for a while. [UPDATE 2007-02-04 18:48 […]
Sweden to set up embassy in Second Life from PhysOrg.com Sweden is to become the first country to establish diplomatic representation in the virtual reality world of Second Life, officials said. […]
For perhaps the first time in history, a feature movie is having its premiere in Second Life. If you remember my earlier blog entry, you’ve noticed that all it took to get “Four Eyed Monsters” to be screened inside SL was a request to have 150 people subscribing to it. […]
I’ve been a great fan of Alexa over a decade ago when this traffic-ranking site appeared, under different forms, and with a different purpose. Now, among the 2 or 3 billion sites in the world, it shows the pretty traffic these sites have. New World Notes recently made it to […]
A new SL newspaper — another one in PDF format — has recently been launched in SL. The AvaStar, with the motto “Your World. Your Voice.”, is published by Gregor Ginsberg (chairman of German publishers Bild.T-Online AG & Co. KG), and is a professional tabloid newspaper for the residents of […]
Oh Christmas Tree….Oh Originally uploaded by Tigerzeye. At this point, I think it’s appropriate to wish you all, faithful readers, the season’s greetings, have a very happy holiday, hopefully with your friends and family, and quote my own father on this: “Enjoy yourselves and don’t spend too much” 🙂 As […]
A very interesting comment on what the future of virtual worlds might bring us: http://www.dansdata.com/gz064.htm Fun to read 🙂
After a bit over a month of intense building, as well as almost a year of careful planning, Neufreistadt just announced today that a second sim was formally opened to the public under the Confederation of Democratic Simulators (CDS) — Colonia Nova, a Roman-themed sim, also under the same democratic […]