January 2008
83 posts
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 Street journal - January 25, 2008 Passage Circle of Virtual Life: In ‘Passage,’ players can marry (top left), spend life as a bachelor (top right), hunt for treasure (bottom right) and grow old (bottom left). “Passage” allows players to experience an entire simulated lifetime,...
Grady Booch (Alem Theas in Second Life)
Again I must recommend that all followhttp://www.ugotrade.com/ Tara5 Oh in Second Life Only she could find and interview Grady Booch (Alem Theas in Second Life) Grady Booch (born February 27, 1955) is a software designer, a software methodologist and a design pattern enthusiast. He is chief scientist of Rational Software (now a part of IBM) and a series editor for Benjamin/Cummings. In 1995 he...
Bush Order Expands Network Monitoring →
Intelligence Agencies to Track Intrusions Washington Post, Saturday, January 26, 2008 President Bush signed a directive this month that expands the intelligence community’s role in monitoring Internet traffic to protect against a rising number of attacks on federal agencies’ computer systems. The directive, whose content is classified, authorizes the intelligence agencies, in...
Virtual Worlds - Are the Big Second Tier...
Read this article and note the popular wisdom coming from the “Big Developers”. http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/01/corey-bridges-o.html#more The Venture Capital money is going into other places (other Virtual Worlds) not Second Life now (see the previous post here). The thought is “There is no way to make an investment, real money and impact in/with SL since what was tried...
$425 Million Invested in 15 Virtual Worlds... →
January 23, 2008 Virtual Worlds Management, the leading media company tracking the virtual worlds industry (and publisher of this newswire), has announced findings from a comprehensive study of accountable transactions showing that venture capital and media firms have invested more than $425 million dollars in 15 virtual worlds companies during the fourth quarter of 2007. Of the $425 million, $375...
Second World Monitor
from mal burns http://www.mogulus.com/metaworld
The U.S. a Third World country? →
Frighteningly correct - watch this short interview video
Interview with Philip Rosedale @ Devos 2008 →
The Physical World as a Virtual Reality →
Authors: Brian Whitworth(Submitted on 2 Jan 2008 (this version), latest version 5 Jan 2008 (v2))Abstract: This paper explores the idea that the universe is a virtual reality created by information processing, and relates this strange idea to the findings of modern physics about the physical world. The virtual reality concept is familiar to us from online worlds, but our world as a virtual reality...
“LSL2 will soon be running on the Mono open source CLI engine, which will make it...”
– cory ondrejka Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at http://ondrejka.blogspot.com/
“Standing in virtual line to get Burning Man tickets. This process is always...”
– From Twitter
Vint is on a Roll
After her running diatribe about SLart, she posted this:Free texture upload service SLUP.JP (500 x Beta) January 21, 2008 1:31 pm If you just occasionally upload textures, the 10L$/texture upload is not a big thing. But if you are a poor n00b - no offense - or have tons and tons of textures to upload, or even just a few for non-commercial experimenting reasons, the 10L$ fee for...
Revisiting the Second life Dumpster
I first posted about this Art Project in Architecture + some months ago. http://jeanricardbroek-architect.blogspot.com/2007/10/second-life-dumpster.html I returned to there Web site again today and found this entrty. It apears alive and well: ~LOL~Jan.20,2008 Today when we arrived at the Dumpster site, we found it covered with gambling machines by Rodenbach Oyen. When we sent him an IM, asking him...
From Turbulence & the networked_performance blog...
I have run across this group and those associated with it a number of times including for a post I did on work by Double Happiness Manufacturing a project of Invisible Threads. They manufacture fashionable jeans in a state-of-the-art telematic manufacturing factory in Second Life and should be selling them now at Sundance ~LOL~. They also provide funding for Ars Virtua Gallery & New Media...
Digging Prims
Archaeology in Second Life…. Where to begin? 10 01 2008 Clipped from:http://electricarchaeologist.wordpress.com/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. So. I’m about to embark on something I’ve talked about for a while, but haven’t had the chance: an archaeological simulation in Second Life! It will form part of my introduction to...
Just a Mental Doodle - Physical Avatars
I have been “reporting” and observing here, sort of my Post-it notes on the web, but not doodling, which I just realized would be a good use of tumblr. Doodle 1: Physical Avatars (I am so anal) Imagine a group of lil robotic Muppet’s on your desktop, each talking, VOIP or synthesized speaking, lips moving, eye gestures, each with a microphone to listen, maybe a camera to see,...
Conference: Metaverse U, February 16th & 17th
ANNOUNCEMENT: Metaverse U Conference at Stanford University WHERE: Annenberg Auditorium, Stanford University WHEN: Saturday the 16th and Sunday the 17th of February 2008 WEBSITE: http://metaverseu.stanford.edu
Virtual time travel
From: http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/Virtual time travel A project funded by the Library of Congress aiming to preserve early computer games, electronic literature like online novel 253, and virtual worlds like Second Life has just kicked off at Stanford University. Because they’re breaking new ground, one big aim of the project is to work out just how to archive those things so...
Quote of the Day
“Once your reputation is ruined you can live quite freely” Author unknown
Get a Free Education
Two examples: NCI Class: Textures 2 - ANIMATED TEXTURES Instructor: Protomas Ludwig Location: Sky Class, Castle Elemental When: Sunday, 9am to 10pm, 1hour Pre-requisite: Building 1 - Basics, Textures 1 - Basics Ever wanted to make your creations flicker or flash, or just change a graphic? Learn how in this class that will teach advanced texture techniques like frame animation, and planar mapping!...
Vint Flaken takes on Richard Minsky
SLasshole trademarks SLart. Soon SLex and SLove forbidden too? January 18, 2008 10:37 pm slart! SLart! SLART!See, I’ve said it too! May I add to that that both Richard Minsky as well as ArtWorld Market - Mr. Minsky’s avatar - are SLassholes? Yeah sure, this is my blog, I may say so. Just as I may say ‘SLart!’, no mather how much Richard Minsky is threatening humans and avatars all over...
Another Trend Prediction
Cell phones and virtual worlds morphing shopper ways Jan 17, 2008 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Virtual worlds, mobile coupons and bar-code readers on cell phones are the next technology wave that U.S. chain stores must ride if they hope to stay competitive in the fast-changing world of global retail. Retailers, gathered in New York this week for the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) annual...
More Augmented Reality: Real-world, yet Virtual,...
ESA spin-off scores €4.1 million for real-world, yet virtual, gaming Published1/17/2007 http://iopenermedia.com/news.htm “In a rare space-related VC funding deal, European Space Agency (ESA) spin-off iOpener has secured €4.1 million in funds to start up operations. Investor in the Dutch/German real-time game engine company was German venture capitalist Triangle. iOpener offers...
Architecture & Scaling
Currently there are many people and organizations looking at Linden Lab’s architecture and questioning just how to build a scalable system that can handle millions of concurrent users and hundreds of petabytes of data. If your interested here are a few good links: High Scalability YouTube Architecture Google Architecture Flickr Architecture Amazon Architecture MapReduce: simplified data...
Social Markers →
Great post: Hugh is not just a cartoon-er but now one of my social markers. the mental thread then lead to: http://technobabble2dot0.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/white-paper-distributed-influence-quantifying-the-impact-of-social-media/
Joking Aside
US intel chief wants carte blanche to peep all ‘Net traffic From: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars Julian Sanchez | Published: January 17, 2008 - 06:40AM CT “In a long profile published by The New Yorker this week (not yet online, but there’s an audio interview with the profile’s author at The New Yorker’s site), Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell...
3D Interactive Web Advertising →
Web advertising kicks it up.. Here is another example: http://www.stellaartois.com/
Data Portability
Video: DataPortability - Connect, Control, Share, Remix from Smashcut Media on Vimeo. DataPortability gathers existing open standards into a blueprint for a social, open, remixable web where your online identity, media, contacts and content can follow you wherever you go. Find out more at dataportability.org
Sun Buys MySQL for $1 Billion →
SolidWorks comes to Second Life
What it is?A “tech geeks” spring break. Stories that show what innovative people with the right tools can do. Design contest winners. FSAE Student Racing. Tips. Sandbox to explore building in Secondlife. Fun and games. Let us know what you think by making an offering. Lots more This is the SolidWorks Community’s playground to look at new and innovative ways to extend the...
Digi S Lab Opens on Second Life
press Release: Newswise — Sbarro Health Research Organization (www.shro.org), a nonprofit research group, will open its Internet headquarters on Second Life, the parallel internet-based virtual world created in 2003 by Linden Research, on January 11. The Dig S Lab project team created the Sbarro compound on the futuristic Second Life with the aim of providing a dynamic space for open discussion,...
dusanwriter
Blog:Dusan Writer’s Metaverse http://dusanwriter.wordpress.com author: Dusan Writer About page reads: “In virtual worlds I am (usually) Dusan Writer. Builder, wanderer, explorer. Sometimes in a suit and tie, sometimes a Neko, sometimes a kid, and generally trying to look creative and friendly even if I’m in a rut and worrying more about what virtual shoes go with my new virtual...
IBM Press Release
The below was first blogged by dusan writer yesturday, read about it here: http://dusanwriter.wordpress.com/ Press room > Press releases > IBM Innovations to Help Companies Overcome the Challenges of Globalization “ARMONK, NY - 14 Jan 2008: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled new software and research innovations aimed at improving the way employees across an organization collaborate in...
Second Life and the Slashdot Effect →
The Value of Virtual Money
Below is a link to a post by: Rick van der Wal, aka in SL as the avatar: Roy Cassini. His Blog is Digado which stands for Digital Adoption. You can see it gets complex when you have 3 identities or brands: Corporate, Personal and Virtual ~LOL~ but his blog is well worth following and reading. His latest post to the MindBlizzard blog is spot on.Here is a quote, just a snip of the post, the last...
Aleister Kronos and his blog
Ambling in Second Life “This blog describes some of the places and people I’ve encountered in Second Life… and (sometimes) ponders on what it all may mean for the future of the internet and social networking. In any case, there’s plenty here - so come and explore. “ He says in his blog’s About Me: I am an avatar in SL, a virtual traveller on behalf of my RL...
collapsing geography →
Follow Cory Ondrejka into his Third Life. His Bio reads: Cory Ondrejka is the cofounder of Second Life, the hugely successful and award winning virtual world, where he architected the core code and hired the team responsible for Second Life’s growth to over 12 million residents. He is currently a visiting professor in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern...
UgoTrade →
Blog written by Tara5 Oh in Second Life. One of the best writers and reporters on SL. No, I can safely say she is THE BEST at covering serious explorations & intellectual discussions in Second Life and about Virtual Worlds. Here is a snip from the last few lines of her latest post I think QSL will be visiting the, “The Rhodospin Membrane Protein,” soon. This build on the IBM Research...
Another Forrester Prediction
This kind of report is getting old and redundent…. but cheaper. Price: US $279.00 Getting Real Work Done In Virtual Worlds January 7, 2008 Executive SummaryVirtual worlds like Second Life, There.com, and more business-focused offerings are on the brink of becoming valuable work tools. Major companies and public-sector organizations — such as BP, IBM, Intel, and the US Army — are investing...
Inside Beautiful Minds
Gilles Trehin - The City of Urville By Darold Treffert, MD Video excerpt from Expedition ins Gehirn (Beautiful Minds: A Voyage Into the Brain) Shown here with the permission of Colourfield Productions, Dortmund, Germany [Windows Media Files — approx. 3:35] Video 1 High Resolution (broadband Internet connection) Video 1 Low Resolution (dial-up Internet connection) Clipped from:...
SL media missed a Gartner Prediction - Lindens...
NetworkWorld.com Gartner analyst predicts ‘virtual marriages’ by 2015Bride and groom will fall in love, marry and never meet By Jon Brodkin, Network World, 11/14/07 Will you marry me (in Second Life)? A Gartner analyst is predicting that 2% of U.S. citizens will get married in virtual worlds by 2015 to people they have never met, and may never meet even after they are married. These...