Archive for March, 2008
Monday, March 31st, 2008
Will the future be neural?It already was announced quite a while ago but as it was mentioned again yesterday during Coffee with Crayon in Second Life I had a closer look and it looks like it’s soon to be released.Huh? What are you talking about?Good question. I am talking about the Emotiv EPOC Neuroheadset which […]
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Teenagers as?Teamagers??What do You Think?Tom Austin, a researcher for Gartner, is interviewed in Fast Company this month and makes some interesting points about the value that businesses can find in implementing and using social tools in their workplaces. I like the idea that we should be hiring more “cultural anthropologists” in our IT departments, people […]
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Front StageWelcomeIn this instructable my daughter, Holly, and I will demonstrate how to build a very nice, fully functional, miniature stage for wanna-be pop-stars. The cost of this stage only $35, with almost no wasted materials. The size of the stage is totally up to you it can easily be made into larger and/or modular […]
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Links for Tuesday, February 26, 2008
PicLens - “PicLens instantly transforms your browser into a full-screen, 3D experience for viewing images on the web. Photos will come to life via a cinematic presentation that goes well beyond the confines of the traditional browser window. With PicLens, browsing and viewing images on the web will never be […]
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
SLGA: Linden Lab releases Capabilities Server as Open Source (technical)Linden Lab released their capabilities server under an MIT license yesterday. It is written in Python and available as part of the mulib package (trac view here) which was released as Open Source earlier.The capabilities server is one of the core modules needed for the Second […]
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Data Portability and Second Life (technical, but no code)There are two groups in which I am active these days: The DataPortability Project and the Second Life Grid Architecture Working Group (SLGAWG, we need a better name, I agree ).The former is trying to provide policies and a set of (existing) technical standards to enable […]
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Google releases Contacts Data APIYou might have noticed the unfortunate mechanism of retrieving your Google Mail contacts by site asking your for your Google username and password. Apparently this is on of the nightmare of every person just a little into security, aren’t you not just able to retrieve the Google addressbook but also have […]
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
SecondCast #62 - Something Something Josh Fouts (SL: Schmilsson Nilsson) joins the Secondcasters to discuss the launch of the USC Center for Public Diplomacy in Second Life on Annenburg Island.USC’s partner, the MacArthur Foundation will appear this Friday at noon EST for a discussion with Linden Lab CEO Philip […]
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
True Idoru: Meet Chouchou, A Metaverse-Only Music GroupThe future of music can be glimpsed on an island floating high above Second Life. There, amid snowflakes and trees that grow from a shard of crystal is a performance space, and on show dates, that’s where you’ll find juliet…SLHamlet
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
I’m going to miss Second Life Insider
Filed under: News, SL Insider Business
I’d been a reader of Second Life Insider for quite some time when I heard that Akela Talamasca was looking for me. I couldn’t quite understand why he’d want ME to write for this blog. I’m still not sure what he saw in me, […]
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