Just like Snow Crash
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...
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I say Bertolli, you say…
Beer. No, really! At least, that's what the Bertolli brand appears to suggest to the globalized users of Brand Tags, a simple but elegant collective experiment in brand perception. The basic idea behind...
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Events without a location
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...
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A virtual world of your own
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...
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Liveblogging the election
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CHI 2008
Luca Chittaro is blogging from the CHI 2008 event in Florence, covering in such depth that I've stopped regretting not being there... Today, he published two interviews with Michael Brzozowski (HP Labs)...
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Instant appreciation
SWG, a marketing and media research company, has published on its YouTube channel a video exhibiting an application of its VideoWave system, analyzing the reactions of the TV audience to a couple of video...
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New route for Second Life?
Philip Rosedale, Chief Executive Officer of Linden Lab (the company behind Second Life), announced today that the Company has begun to search for his replacement. First reactions [on Reuters] are mostly...
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Paul The Wine Guy is back
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Ground Control to Major Tom’s avatar
When speaking of virtual worlds, a lot of emphasis falls upon the way the 3D objects (humans, houses...) are represented and can interact with one another. But I believe that one major reason for skepticism...
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Divination and web 2.0
I wonder if Google's business model, so heavily relying on targeted advertising, is really delivering its promise. Adwords, from a specific perspective, can be seen as the service that fuels the whole...