December 2008
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“On New Year’s Day, it will become illegal to text message while driving in...”
– Texting while driving: everything you need to know about the new law | Technology | Los Angeles Times
Dec 31st
“In an effort to cut costs and reduce carbon emissions, UK financial services...”
– Ernst & Young to use PS3 for virtual meetings - Finance and Accounting jobs UK
Dec 31st
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“Second Life is the most overhyped alleged phenom of the century, so far....”
Dec 31st
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Magical .. I got this as a Christmas gift and I cannot stop listening to it. The Duhks - “I Can See” from their Fast Paced World Album
Dec 30th
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From the creator: Earlier this year I got pretty bored and decided to do something creative in my spare time. I’ve been wanting to do a fight scene for a while and decided to develop a story using World of Warcraft. Animation is what I do and I decided to use my skills in making something. This is only the second personal creative work I’ve ever posted so I’m a bit nervous...
Dec 30th
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ListenRosie Thomas The folk-pop songstress is best...
Dec 28th
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ListenHoneyhoney - Naughtiness of Me
Dec 28th
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‘AVATARA’ is a feature-length documentary consisting of interviews with the (mostly American) inhabitants of the voice-chat environment OnLive! Traveler, which has been in existence since ca. 1993 and is now accessible through The Digital Space Commons as DigitalSpace Traveler. The documentary was recorded entirely ‘in-world,’ that is within the Traveler environment and,...
Dec 28th
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Listenfred-wilson: reblogging holiday music again. the...
Dec 24th
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“Mike - Robert opened his influence to a different and arguable more diverse...”
– Insightful Alex Williams comment on: I’m Sorry Robert, But It’s Time For A Friendfeed Intervention
Dec 23rd
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ESPN360 Affiliate Offering
ESPN360.com is available at no charge to fans who receive their high-speed internet connection from an ESPN360.com affiliated internet service provider. ESPN360.com is also available to fans that access the internet from U.S. college campuses and U.S. military bases. From CNET:  There are many reasons why an ISP would decide against paying ESPN for its premium Web content. A spokesperson for...
Dec 22nd
“Developers build applications on Facebook’s platform and they’ll grant you...”
– If Facebook’s All About Sharing, Why Won’t They Share With Me?
Dec 22nd
“Warner Music Group has ordered YouTube to remove all music videos by its artists...”
– Warner Music pulls videos from YouTube - News, Gadgets & Tech - The Independent
Dec 22nd
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Decatur, GA embraces immersive virtual...
The City of Decatur is currently evaluating the use of virtual environment technology to encourage community networking, improve civic engagement, and promote economic development in the city. Immersive virtual environments, initially popularized by games such as World of Warcraft© and social networking sites such as Second Life©, are gaining popularity for use as educational and training...
Dec 22nd
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InfoQ: Second Life’s Architecture →
From InfoQ: Summary In this presentation, Ian Wilkes, VP of Systems Engineering, describes the architecture used by the popular game named Second Life. Ian presents how the architecture was at its debut and how it evolved over years as users and features have been added. Bio As VP of Systems Engineering, Ian Wilkes is responsible for all aspects of IT infrastructure at Linden Lab. An early...
Dec 21st
“As Twitter grows in popularity”? How popular is Twitter really? According to...”
– Comment from:  Filtering Twitter, One Tweet at a Time - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
Dec 21st
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RIAA Says No More Individual Lawsuits
Image from Ars Technica From WSJ (subscription):  After years of suing thousands of people for allegedly stealing music via the Internet, the recording industry is set to drop its legal assault as it searches for more effective ways to combat online music piracy. Instead, the Recording Industry Association of America said it plans to try an approach that relies on the cooperation of...
Dec 20th
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2009 Trends
Ross Dawson outlines six important forces that will shape business and society in 2009. 1. Constant partial attention. 2009 will see more people consuming 20 hours or more of media a day. And no, it’s not just the insomniacs. It is due to a phenomenon called Constant Partial Attention, or CPA, in which our attention is constantly divided between a massive array of channels now including mobile...
Dec 20th
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giftd Sends Virtual Goods Anywhere
Viximo introduces Giftd: a widget bloggers and social network users can place on virtually any site and start receiving virtual gifts immediately. Every single item for sale in Giftd have been created by our community of virtual gift creators.
Dec 20th
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imeem sponsored playlist
Dec 19th
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Grace’s Christmas Mix Eight tracks of alternative & punk and christmas, including music by Belle And Sebastian, Ben Folds, Bright Eyes and Coldplay.
Dec 19th
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Breadcrumbs of Social Media
I stopped by this Advertising Age post this morning, “Eek! How to React When You’ve Been Slammed on Twitter And How I Saved Myself from Looking Like A Clown”; it was the catchy headline that drew me in but it was subsequent curiosity that kept me reading.  The author is Freddie Laker: Freddie Laker is the director of digital strategy at Sapient. He has also founded the Society...
Dec 19th
Dec 19th
“So what is the news? It’s producers, who write or share the news, and...”
– Josh Young commeting on CJR Essay “Music Lessons  What journalists could learn from Kid Rock, Lil Wayne and Bon Iver” by Alissa Quart
Dec 19th
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XING Acquires socialmedia
Jason Goldberg announced today that socialmedian is being acquired by XING of Hamburg, Germany. From Jason: This is great news for socialmedian’s members as XING is committed to growing and developing socialmedian both as a standalone service as well launching integrated socialmedian services on XING, one of the leading online business networks in the world. Press release is...
Dec 19th
“- Retailer CK Tang (CKTS.SI: Quote, Profile, Research) is setting up a virtual...”
– PRESS DIGEST - Singapore newspapers - Dec 18 | Industries | Consumer Products & Retail | Reuters
Dec 18th
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Former Charles River Ventures VC and now CEO of ohai, Susan Wu, gives a presentation at Le Web in Paris about the market for virtual goods. NOTE: 70% of Tencent’s annual revenue of $1bn comes from the sale of virtual goods. Faced with minimal opportunity to monetize via online advertising in China, the company chose a different path. Considering that advertising is on the wane at present, many...
Dec 18th
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Weblin to Second Life: Meaningful Interoperability
Weblin’s recent announcement that you can transform your Second Life avatar into a weblin for travels along the web is a fantastic example of meaningful and relevant interoperability between virtual worlds. Early adopter Second Lifers have already adopted weblins as a means by which to chat and socialize outside of the virutal world of Second Life, whether it’s attending...
Dec 18th
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RIP Mixwit
We regret to announce that Mixwit will cease to exist at the end of the year.The website and profiles will be turned off around Dec 27th and all embedded widgets will stop playing before the end of December. We’ve put a year of work into Mixwit so this choice wasn’t taken lightly. I won’t go into the details of our situation but state simply that weboldly marched into in a position best...
Dec 18th
2008 Wrap Up: If the Augmented Reality Industry... →
Dec 17th
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Discovery is the new cocaine
Dec 17th
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“Media organisations are still barely getting their heads around social media....”
– 3 wishes for social media in 2009 | Online Journalism Blog
Dec 17th
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Addicted? No, I'm just socially impaired, thanks.
From BBC NEWS:  Ninety per cent of the young people who seek treatment for compulsive computer gaming are not addicted. So says Keith Bakker the founder and head of Europe’s first and only clinic to treat gaming addicts, the Smith & Jones Centre. The Smith & Jones Centre in Amsterdam has treated hundreds of young gamers since the clinic opened in 2006. But the clinic is changing...
Dec 16th
“Pangea has been developing Mac games for over 20 years, but according to...”
– Some iPhone devs raking in the cash from the App Store. I’m happy for the people making hundreds of thousands (or millions) of dollars from the App Store, but the key word in this headline is “some”. I fear that too much press about iPhone-app “lottery winners” will have two negative side effects ...
Dec 16th
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Buddy, can you spare a post?
Chris Brogan recently found himself in the broil of a controversy over his recent sponsored “go shopping at KMART” post. I’m not throwing into the already overflated and often conflated discussion but I did have some fun building a couple of Wordles. The first, from Chris’ Kmart post. The second, from the follow up “Advertising and Trust”.
Dec 16th
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From MediaPost:  In the first major overhaul of its guidelines in eight years, the self-regulatory group Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) today will issue new privacy principles for online behavioral advertising, or serving ads to people based on their Web history. As with the old standards, the new code of conduct in many circumstances requires ad companies that target Web users...
Dec 16th
“I find Twitter incredibly annoying, both as a user and bystander,” said...”
– InternetNews Realtime IT News - What Keeps Twitter Chirping Along
Dec 16th
“Intel came up with a novel way to show how important the Internet and computing...”
– Survey Asks: Internet Access or Sex? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
Dec 13th
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flipshake is Open
If you are into trading cards and digital art, you’ll enjoy flipshake.  From the FAQ: What is Flipshake? Flipshake is a community site for the collection and creation of digital trading cards called Flips.
Dec 13th