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Last week I had the opportunity to talk about Second Life with some of Ed Felten's students at Princeton. A year ago, a friend at Microsoft Research had explained that their favorite school to recruit...
View ArticleFree Billion $ Idea of the Day
Virtual memorials in Second Life. Think about it . . . I was chatting with some smart people at the Berkman Center last week and talk somehow blundered into personal memorials and it hit me that Second...
View ArticleMixed Reality Madness
It seems like we're reaching some sort of critical mass for mixed-reality events. Within one week there are/have been: USC's Center for Public Diplomacy's Awards Ceremony, which was attended by more...
View ArticleKoster v. Neva
Given how often the amateur versus expert issue raises itself in relation to Second Life -- whether in terms of content creation, medical research, game creation, etc -- it seems somehow appropriate to...
View ArticleNASA Needs You!
NASA has recently announced that they are seeking offers for educational programs "for creating and managing innovative activities, events, products, services, or other types of formal or informal...
View ArticleMedia Frenzy in SL
OK, I spoke too soon about mixed reality events in SL. First I attended an X-Men 3 red carpet event on Avalon. Then I read on 3pointD about an album release in SL! We are living in interesting times.
View ArticleFirst There Was the Grid
3pointD linked to an interesting article on Ogle Earth entitled "Metaverse 2.0" which talks about the fact that Google Earth and Second Life are modeled on the real Earth and a flat Earth,...
View ArticleA Random Walk Down the Long Tails of Innovation
Last week I participated in a very interesting conference focused on innovation. In particular, attention was given to what drives innovation and what policy decisions could be made to maximize it....
View ArticleMy First Mashup and Another Billion Dollar Idea
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View ArticleNothing New in the World
So, of course, a resident got there first. SL Stats is a much better version of my little script. Cool stuff, although they're clearly only scratching the surface of what you could do. The...
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