29 novembre 2009 - 20:14
What is the role of negative events in a game? Looking at the massively successful Farmville, there's not much to learn, as negative events are indeed a very marginal part of the experience. It has been pointed out that it... Continua a leggere
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Categorie: Giochi, Opinioni brevi, Virtual worlds
23 novembre 2009 - 0:00
When 67 million users are playing an online game, I can't possibly ignore it. So I signed up for Farmville, despite the negative press. But, as you might imagine, I'd rather go the real thing... Continua a leggere
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Categorie: Giochi, Opinioni brevi, Virtual worlds
16 novembre 2009 - 17:42
Following my considerations around virtual money and social networks (especially Facebook), I've come across an interesting question (is Facebook a virtual world?) and a meaningful thought about a way to measure engagement: the quantity of uproar from users over interface... Continua a leggere
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Categorie: Identity, Virtual worlds
7 maggio 2009 - 0:24
Cyburbia: the place where we go when we spend too much time hooked up to other people via a continuous web of electronic information Remarkable book review (James Harkin - Cyburbia: The Dangerous Idea That’s Changing How We Live and... Continua a leggere
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Categorie: Opinioni brevi, Virtual worlds, Web/Tecnologia, Weblog
TAGS: Cyburbia, James Harkin, Jennie Bristow, spiked
29 aprile 2009 - 7:21
One of the eight scenarios outlined in "The Future of Internet - 3" (Elon University/Pew Internet Project) survey is about identity - namely, The Evolution of Privacy, Identity, and Forgiveness: Transparency heightens individual integrity and forgiveness. In 2020, people are... Continua a leggere
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Categorie: Identity, Tecnologia, Virtual worlds, Web/Tecnologia
17 luglio 2008 - 23:16
The use of Information and Communication Technologies for energy efficiency is a key challenge to be responded to, and an idea market (with ideas treated as stocks, with their price influenced by people buying and selling them - with virtual... Continua a leggere
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Categorie: Ecologia, Virtual worlds
TAGS: ami@work, ict, idea markets, prediction markets
3 luglio 2008 - 0:13
The narrative engine of Snow Crash, a novel published in 1992, is the homonymous new drug - which is a computer virus capable of moving from the computers to the brains of their human users, causing irreversible mind alterations. An... Continua a leggere
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Categorie: Opinioni brevi, Tecnologia, Virtual worlds
TAGS: digital divide, drugs, i-doser, snow crash
31 maggio 2008 - 12:38
I used to think that free-form virtual worlds, used as communication tools aimed at education, were not yet ready for primetime - at least, not until better integration tools with traditional elearning systems will be developed . But I had... Continua a leggere
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Categorie: Media, Tecnologia, Virtual worlds
TAGS: 3D, avatar, event management, Second Life, seminar, speaker, virtual worlds
15 maggio 2008 - 7:55
Perhaps at Linden Lab they did not expect this outcome, when they released the source code of the Second Life viewer last year... The OpenSimulator team has somewhat reverse-engineered the server part as well, and released its code - so... Continua a leggere
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Categorie: Tecnologia, Virtual worlds
22 aprile 2008 - 13:38
The vBusiness Expo is a large scale event about business in virtual worlds, and as far as I know it is the first to be actually held in a virtual world. Starting on April 24th, it will cover four key... Continua a leggere
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Categorie: Virtual worlds
TAGS: vbusiness expo
