2008

My Radio - Media Master

The Widget

Tutorial to Media Masters - pipe your tunes...

Create Your Own Personalized Music...

casideelane: I wanted to make my own personalized streaming station to set into my land...

On the passing of an online community mentor...

Games Research & Health Education

“starting in the next release, facelights will be...”
— SecondLie on Twitter 07:28 PM...

“FACT: The “m” actually stands for...”
— SecondLie on twitter 11:50 AM...

“Instead of Age Verification, residents will now need to push...”
— SecondLie on twitter 08:12 AM...

“FACT: Rolling restarts are caused by the janitor unplugging...”
— SecondLie on Twitter 07:51 PM...

Transparent glass containing solar cells...

Professor John Bell said QUT had worked with a Canberra-based company Dyesol, which is developing...

A product design experience that's up to...

On April 22, Siemens PLM Software will answer one of the most important questions facing today’s...

Rochester, NY Raised - Paul Buchiet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Buchheit http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/ http://friendfeed.com/ ...

SL posts strong economic growth on dwindling...

The State Of The Metaverse Development...

Metanomics :: Past, Present and Future of...

Reblooged from Dusan Writer’s Metaverse

Building a 3D World One City at a Time: Google and Microsoft Chip Away at a Global Build April 16,...

GeoSimPhilly

credit: geosimphilly.com Found via: Digado “The terabytes of imaging data are being used to...

The "Other" Grid

Many Second Life’s users think of “The Grid” to mean interconnected virtual world...

First generation warbots deployed in...

   Iraqi War Robots Recalled Following Alarming Behavior The TALON SWORDS robots are being shipped...

“How much faster can you render the blue screen of death?”
— Jen-Hsun Huang Nvidia CEO and...

Simpsons House In Real World

from: http://thecontaminated.com/simpsons-house-in-real-world/ remind me a greenies, but OMG this...

Can you Patent a Spatial Concept?

Patent PILE UP® was registered for patenting throughout Europe and in the USA in 2003. The...

Sounds like SL to Me

reblogged from: anarchitecture   Unsolicited Architecture. Maybe no other professional sector is...

Wall*e

Watch: http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/walle/hd/

frontotemporal dementia

Image of a migraine by Anne Adams Remixed from the New York Times: here

Sings of Spring

The latest project by street artist Mark Jenkins is “Signs of Spring”, featuring street signs that...

Another take on the State of Things

rebloged from:  www.forrester.com Open Source Community Will Drive Virtual World Standards And...

Havok 4 fixes Huge Prims

You can now fall/fly & move through a hollow in a megaprim. Lillie Yifu - The Basilica

it's a small world after all -

STOP….. A new logo for Second Life®’s bloggers...

We all have out interests. For some it is bicycles

“Turning off “Atmospheric Shaders” in the Graphics...”
— Pastrami Linden, April 3rd,...

Federal Virtual Worlds Expo April...

April 24-25, 2008National Defense University Washington, DCFederal Virtual Worlds Expo:...

SL Tips  - Posted to flickr  by: Eshi Otawara | April 1,...

eBAY not vBay

***New Policy Update: Digital Downloadable Goods in Classified Ads Format Only***March 24, 2008 |...

Must read - Ugotrade

Tara5 is fantastic evangelist and writer. I highly recommend following her every post @...

HUB2, a 3-D online depiction of Boston...

Virtual tool puts residents in the planning process Boston Business Journal Friday, March 28,...

History: 3-31-2008

F.decorate(_ge('photo_notes'), F._photo_notes).notes_go_go_go(2379609985,...

1,749 Flickr groups with the words...

I did a search for groups in Flickr with the name Second Life Here are a few examples: Result...

The Moral Economy of Second Life

The last few days there has been alot said about Linden Lab changing, focused around it’s...

PREDICTIONS from 1968

What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2008? (Nov, 1968) Source: Mechanix Illustrated Issue: Nov,...

Speaking of changing the ToS

I received this from Yahoo: We’re making some changes that will affect one of your...

Mitch Kapor @  Metanomics 3-28-2008  This snapshot was...

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we...”
— Anais Nin

It is size that matters

Photo from:http://www.eizo.co.uk/ Text from: http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk  It’s not really...

Mitch Kapor: Friday 3-28-2008 10:30 am...

Mitch Kapor | Metanomics ‘08 - Business and Policy in the Metaverse - Friday March 28: Mitch Kapor...

Phillips 3D Displays and WOWvx

Movie theaters across the USA are struggling to go digital, replacing all their film projection...

Second Life ® Communities & Trademarks

I explore and find the edges of something to help define it. Areas of recent interest have...

MapServer

Did We Just Witness a Twitter Marriage...

clipped from: http://mashable.com March 21, 2008  Forget statistics and pageviews; marriage...

DARPA & Sentient World Simulation

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. And today?...”
— B. Olatunji

“There are those who work all day. Those who dream all day....”
— Steven J Ross

Just so damn adorable

source: http://ru.fishki.net/picst/klassniehomy_12.jpg

source: http://lab111.tumblr.com/ Anthropomorphism is the...

Rendering Applications

3dsmax  VRay  Maya  Cinema4D      Maxwell Render  Lightwave

Burger King's Royal Taster Found Dead

March 18, 2008 | Issue 44•12 ROYAL FOOD COURT OF THE BURGER KING—Gabriello di Mangiagrasso, the...

World Press Photo Winners

~ GRR~ Can anyone explain why I could not use the photo under “Fair Use” since I wish to...

Hello Grace

Just noticed that ~wOOt~ had tumblr followers. Smiles then feels, for some reason nervous,...

“The brain operates on the same amount of power as 10-watt...”
— Source :Some post on a blog,...

Intel Game Demo Contest:...

IBM Systems Journal, volume 42, Number Storage Systems,...

“I don’t want to dis Second Life, obviously...”
—  John Venables: Sony Home,...

“You don’t need to boil the ocean to cook a fish.”
— Source: Unknown, heard it...

P2P for gaming? Maybe / Maybe not

In conjunction with a work group of the Distributed Computing Industry Association, Verizon is...

Low End Video  GeForce-based motherboard, supports Intel®...

CPUs, GPUs & Moore's Law

Clipped from: Transformations, NVIDIA’s quarterly Newsletter Fall/Winter 07 Q&A Does...

“ always been somewhat disillusioned with the educational...”
— Will...

“SimCity was originally developed by game designer Will...”
— http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si...

Indie Kids

Is buying an Island or opening a store...

Vollee - SL on your Mobile Phone

clipped from:1up.com GDC 08: World of WarCraft on Mobile Phones? With streaming MMOs, anything is...

VOIP Startup

MobileCrunch has announced the beta release of Nimbuzz Talk, a mobile/PC app that connects...

~OUCH~ A first: Housing debt is greater...

THREE REPORTS REFLECT DOWNWARD PRICE SPIRAL WITH NO BOTTOM IN SIGHT By J.W. ElphinstoneAssociated...

“One of the first rules of Empire, is that if you want to lay...”
—  David Reid BBC - Transforming...

TV & your PC

From arstechnica.com: TV providers struggling to crack the new services nut Demand for new services...

A Shared Vision, A New Architecture, for...

I have been interested in the state of the art of CAD & 3D modeling/rendering for 20 years....

“People watch what you do more than they listen to what you...”
— I am sure not an original...

“Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal”
— http://www.behance.com/Team_Blo...

Powering 20,000 Homes: The World's...

Image tile and clip from http://www.eyebeam.org/reblog/ With an installed peak power capacity of...

High End Graphics Cards - NVIDIA GeForce...

The below is from: electronista.com also see : Ars Technica reviews the NVIDIA GeForce...

Newsweek and Avatars

image by Vickie Shan   ‘Our imaginary, hotter selves’ Here’s an interesting...

Watching Google, Microsoft, IBM &...

Autodesk Buys Parisian Gaming AI Firm Kynogon Autodesk (NASDAQ: ADSK) is acquiring Kynogon, which...

Joining the Disabled in Second Life

I have been missing in action for the past week. I would like to thank you all that...

The Second Life Server Team will be doing some scheduled...

“56% of Chinese spend at least 10 hours a month in an online...”
—  February 13, 2008, 12:24 am...

MONO a mono

 Below clipped from Bettina Tizzy’s Not Possible IRL  “Mono is an enhancement to the...

“U.N.: More than half of world’s population will have...”
— Siliconvalley.com Headline...

Virtual worlds could also become an...

From:  GwynethLlewelyn Second Life suspected to be hosting terrorists: http://tinyurl.com/ywoh3u...

Imagine Microsoft Prims

Microsoft kicks around ideas for future of Web advertising Associated Press “Najm said...

“Chance favors the prepared mind”
— Louis Pasteur From the...

Solipsis

Black Rock Solar

Ever heard of someone donating a 90-kilowatt solar array? Ever heard of them doing it over and...

A new start-up to follow

For life-like 3D avatars see http://bigstage.com/  Big Stage is a media company whose breakthrough...

Nature on Trial

The Game of Life

In Passage - Players Get Married, Age In Five-Minutes, then Dye Below from a report in the Wall...

Grady Booch (Alem Theas in Second Life)

Again I must recommend that all follow http://www.ugotrade.com/ Tara5 Oh in Second Life Only she...

Bush Order Expands Network Monitoring

Web Trend Map 2008 Beta By: Information Architects Japan...

duncan wilson - pixelnotes - collaboration with Sirkka...

Virtual Worlds - Are the Big Second...

Read this article and note the popular wisdom coming from the “Big...

$425 Million Invested in 15 Virtual Worlds...

Second World Monitor

  from mal burns http://www.mogulus.com/metaworld

The U.S. a Third World country?

Interview with Philip Rosedale @ Devos 2008

The Physical World as a Virtual Reality

“LSL2 will soon be running on the Mono open source CLI...”
— cory ondrejka Tuesday, January...