Remember June 2007? If you where in Second Life at that time you probably would remember it as ‘the month of the failing asset servers‘. Nearly constant over capacity caused the servers controlling the objects in Second Life to consistently fail, causing much anger amongst its residents over lost objects etc. Of course by now [...]
Posted on: May 30, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Another update from our Russian friends over at Alternativa 3D. They have made a massive breaktrough in bringing virtual worlds to the browser. By using the latest Flash 10 player (currently in Beta, download it over here) they have managed to improve the rendering of 3D to the graphics card. Instead of using a technique [...]
Posted on: May 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The issue of interoperability between virtual worlds has been a strange one for a long time. It seems like everyone wants it, everyone agrees we need ‘web-like’ standards of data exchange between worlds, but no one seems to interested in building it. If anyone, IBM seems to have the best papers to build VRML’s successor, [...]
Posted on: May 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Part of an equally intriguing as confusing project called ‘SpaceCollective‘, an open platform to share revolutionary ideas on a global (universal) scale, comes the following video I found to be an impressive presentation of the Experience Economy:
The website is really a must see, with numerous inspirational ideas, discussions and visuals (especially the gallery is impressive). [...]
Posted on: May 22, 2008 | No Comments »
The adoption of mobile technology hasn’t been a matter of ‘if’ for a long time now, but seems to be stuck on the ‘when’. I used to think the ‘next gen’ phones with larger screens and continuous internet access where to be the last step towards mass adoption, but I don’t see ‘the masses’ running [...]
Posted on: May 21, 2008 | 8 Comments »
The Gillmor Gang, a podcast with some of the leading voices of ‘the social web’ talked about data portability in an ‘epic’ episode with internet heavyweights like Mike Arrington and Robert Scoble. Data portability is the idea of having your data of your ’social profile’ - your friends or any other information tied to a [...]
Posted on: May 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Amongst all the Weblins madness of last month (don’t get me started on this, ‘paradigm shift…’) I added a little wordpress feature called ‘Gravatars’, nice colourful faces to the comments. Nothing really ‘new’ to the world but I liked it well enough to make a post about it.
Gravatar aims to be the ‘globally recognised avatar’ [...]
Posted on: May 15, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Every time I see digital technology move away from our traditional desk top set up (desk, chair, PC, 17′+ monitor) I get excited about the new opportunities of breaking this static environment of interaction with data. When the Wii introduced a mainstream audience to alternative ways to interact with applications I was shocked at how [...]
Posted on: May 14, 2008 | No Comments »
