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+ | Bevan Whitfield tweets a writer's guide to SL: | ||
+ | *http://www.writersinthevirtualsky.com/a-writers-guide-to-learning-about-second-life-part-3 | ||
+ | |||
+ | Bevan tweets what you can dev for your country: | ||
+ | *http://technosailor.com/2009/02/21/ask-not-what-your-country-can-dev-for-you | ||
+ | |||
+ | Crap retweets MalBurns - virtualworldbusiness.com on avoiding the virtual land trap | ||
+ | *http://virtualworldbusiness.com/2009/02/26/avoiding-the-virtual-land-trap | ||
+ | |||
+ | Orban (who else) tweets H+ a slick singularity magazine: | ||
+ | *http://hplusmagazine.com/digitaledition/2009-spring | ||
+ | |||
+ | Bevan tweets somegreyblock on what Facebook is for: | ||
+ | *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFKHaFJzUb4 | ||
+ | |||
+ | Nick W tweets culture in Virtual Worlds: | ||
+ | *http://jvwresearch.org/v1n3.html | ||
+ | |||
+ | Prok tweets (and trashes) Facebook opens governance to users: | ||
+ | *http://www.facebook.com/press/releases.php?p=85587 | ||
+ | |||
+ | Bevan retweets Novamente paper on behaviour in virtual animals: | ||
+ | *http://www.novamente.net/file/AISB08_Goertzel.pdf | ||
+ | |||
+ | Squid tweets 140pedia: | ||
+ | *http://140pedia.com | ||
+ | |||
+ | Dusan tweets MMOX use cases: | ||
+ | *http://www.interopworld.com/mmox-use-cases | ||
+ | |||
+ | Botgirl using issuu for her comic magazines: | ||
+ | *http://issuu.com | ||
+ | |||
+ | Dusan tweets QuakeLive in a browser: | ||
+ | *http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/02/flash.html | ||
+ | |||
+ | Bevan tweets New Media Corporation "sandbox": | ||
+ | *http://sl.nmc.org | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==27 February 2009== | ||
+ | Orban tweets public data sets from Amazon Web Services: | ||
+ | *http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/02/new-aws-public-data-sets-economics-dbpedia-freebase-and-wikipedia.html | ||
+ | |||
+ | Mitch Wagner tweets Microsoft standing to profit from downturn: | ||
+ | *http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/02/decoding_steve.html?cid=RSSfeed_IWK_ALL | ||
+ | |||
+ | Botgirl retweeting Bevan Whitfield on Journal of Virtual World Research: | ||
+ | *http://journals.tdl.org/jvwr/index | ||
+ | |||
+ | Poinky tweets Kjerulf on Lego business cards: | ||
+ | *http://positivesharing.com/2009/02/coolest-business-card-ever/ | ||
+ | |||
+ | Laughing Squid tweets Someecards: | ||
+ | *http://www.someecards.com/upload/lent/id_consider_following.html | ||
+ | |||
+ | Bevan Whitfield tweets VMwares cloud API ambitions: | ||
+ | *http://www.elasticvapor.com/2009/02/vmwares-vcloud-api-still-hazy-ambitions.html | ||
+ | |||
+ | Al K tweets Twitter for Business 101: | ||
+ | *http://www.slideshare.net/pistachio/webcom-montreal | ||
+ | |||
+ | Prok mentions wordles: | ||
+ | *http://www.wordle.net | ||
+ | |||
+ | Mitch retweets Obama's elf: | ||
+ | *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_B5UrI7nAI | ||
+ | |||
+ | Josh Knauer tweets where does data go when services die: | ||
+ | *http://www.rhizalabs.com/2009/02/23/where-does-data-go-when-services-die | ||
+ | |||
+ | M's entry on the new SL blog network, with Prok unblocked: | ||
+ | *https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/features/blog/2009/02/24/a-day-in-the-lab-with-m#comments | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==26 February 2009== | ||
+ | Rvdwals tweets the Smashing Book (and disapproves of its foreseen 30 dollar price tag): | ||
+ | *http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/02/24/the-smashing-book-join-in | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==25 February 2009== | ||
+ | iYan tweets Boxxy, the rise of an Internet meme: | ||
+ | *http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/jan/20/internet | ||
+ | *http://boxxystory.blogspot.com | ||
+ | |||
+ | Al Kronos tweets Steve Dale on Is Social Networking Learning: | ||
+ | *http://steve-dale.net/2009/02/23/is-social-networking-learning | ||
+ | |||
+ | Al Kronos tweets the Coke "avatar" ad: | ||
+ | *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwke0LNardc | ||
+ | |||
+ | Pavig tweets victory of goons over bob in Eve Online: | ||
+ | *http://www.offworld.com/2009/02/ragdoll-metaphysics-good-grief.html | ||
+ | |||
+ | Orban backed up his account with Tweetake | ||
+ | |||
+ | Gwyneth tweets: | ||
+ | *She wonders why There.com wants to help to define the Open Gateway Protocol | ||
+ | *MMOX has been the setting for the latest "Prokofy Wars" | ||
+ | |||
+ | Ugotrade reading The Wealth of Networks by Yochai Benkler | ||
+ | |||
+ | Davidorban wants to compare Feedly to Twine | ||
+ | |||
+ | Josh Knauer uses both http://glance.net and http://gotomeeting.com depending on his meeting needs | ||
+ | |||
+ | Orban tweets Yahoo, Adobe, online word processors and desktop advertising: | ||
+ | *http://seekingalpha.com/article/66018-yahoo-adobe-it-s-a-vision-thing | ||
+ | |||
+ | Mashable blogs 13 online word processors: | ||
+ | *http://mashable.com/2008/02/11/13-word-processors | ||
+ | |||
+ | Adobe's BuzzWord: | ||
+ | http://www.adobe.com/acom/buzzword | ||
+ | |||
+ | Was it Squid who tweeted this flickr thread full of Blingee? - | ||
+ | *http://www.flickr.com/photos/dorkmaster/3287780385/page2/#comment72157614272355567 | ||
+ | |||
+ | Rdvwal tweets Font Conference: | ||
+ | *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8Nh0sZt8IU | ||
+ | |||
+ | Pavig tweets NASA's MMO game using Unreal Engine: | ||
+ | *http://news.bigdownload.com/2009/02/19/feature-first-look-at-nasas-unreal-engine-3-based-mmo | ||
+ | |||
+ | Pavig tweets historic 2003 Bill Gate rant about Windows' lack of usability: | ||
+ | *http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/141821.asp | ||
+ | |||
+ | Pavig tweets a comparison of in-game web browsers: | ||
+ | *http://au.gamespot.com/features/6204588/?skipmc=1&tag=mncol;txt | ||
+ | |||
+ | Gweneth explains updating your social sites from inside SL with hellotxt: | ||
+ | *http://gwynethllewelyn.net/2009/02/24/updating-your-social-websites-status-from-inside-second-life | ||
+ | Gwyneth tweets: "Success! SL <-> Ping.fm works flawlessly! Now I just need my Ping.fm API key approved by them" | ||
+ | |||
+ | She adds: "Someone beat me to a Ping.fm HUD." | ||
+ | |||
+ | Markus Breuer says: "in a few years comsumer pcs (i.e. netbooks) will boot into a web browser and that's it ... with operating systems." | ||
+ | *https://twitter.com/markus_breuer/status/1244467310 | ||
+ | |||
+ | Poinky tweets phasing, the new instancing: | ||
+ | *http://www.massively.com/2009/02/23/mmogology-phasing-phwns-the-phuture/ | ||
+ | |||
+ | Hamlet Au on OpenSim: | ||
+ | *http://ostatic.com/blog/an-introduction-to-opensim-the-apache-of-virtual-worlds | ||
+ | |||
+ | Rik surprised to discover his profile on the SL website: | ||
+ | *http://world.secondlife.com/resident/e87973b9-4e5f-41f9-b9a4-3efa6d1d8b43 | ||
+ | |||
+ | Mitch Wagner tweets Google kicks Safari: | ||
+ | *http://www.macworld.com/article/139011/2009/02/chrome_safari_4.html?lsrc=rss_main | ||
+ | |||
+ | Cory tweets reboot.gov: | ||
+ | *http://yeswescan.org | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==24 February 2009== | ||
+ | Grace McDonnough tweets 3D immersive holographic spaces: | ||
+ | *http://www.telepresenceoptions.com/2009/02/the_case_for_4d_immersive_holo | ||
+ | |||
+ | Prok tweets Mashable on why big brand struggle with social media: | ||
+ | *http://mashable.com/2009/02/20/big-brands-social-media | ||
+ | |||
+ | Botgirl retweets Rheingold on thesis about user participation: | ||
+ | *http://mtschaefer.net/entry/defending-my-bastard-culture | ||
+ | |||
+ | Laughing Squid tweets a pix.ly contest about twitter: | ||
+ | *http://twit.pix.ly/winloss/show/106 | ||
+ | |||
+ | Dusan Writer tweets M Linden's Flickr stream: | ||
+ | *http://www.flickr.com/photos/mlinden | ||
+ | |||
+ | Dusan tweets Novicraft virtual world team building: | ||
+ | *http://www.metaversejournal.com/2009/02/22/novicraft-virtual-world-team-building/ | ||
+ | |||
+ | David Orban tweets embed flickr slideshows on your blog: | ||
+ | *http://ptamaro.posterous.com/cool-tool-flickrslider-embed-f | ||
+ | |||
+ | Al Kronos tweets yammer: | ||
+ | *https://www.yammer.com | ||
+ | |||
+ | Mitch Wagner trying bookmarklet for posting to Twitter: twitlet and bit.ly, but rejects automated tumblr posts for this purpose. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Rubaiyat posts his ATC project: | ||
+ | *http://rubaiyat.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/macbeth-sv | ||
+ | |||
+ | Ugo Trade joins Metaverse twitter group: | ||
+ | *http://twittgroups.com/group/metaverse | ||
+ | |||
+ | Pavig tweets Cenon, open source vector art package: | ||
+ | *http://www.cenon.info | ||
+ | |||
+ | Valleywag takes flack for writing The End of Second Life (lots of "End of Valleywag" posts): | ||
+ | *http://valleywag.gawker.com/5158190/the-end-of-second-life | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==23 February 2009== | ||
+ | Gwyneth Llewelyn using hellotxt to update across all social software at once: | ||
+ | *http://hellotxt.com | ||
+ | |||
+ | Mitch Wagner tweets why hulu should embrace boxee (but what are these, and why should we care?): | ||
+ | *http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/02/the-valentines-day-breakup.html | ||
+ | |||
+ | Fast Company call-in on virtual worlds, with Tish Shute: | ||
+ | *http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/joseph-allan/customer-conversation/next-generation-interaction-are-virtual-worlds-waiting-wings | ||
+ | |||
+ | Dusan tweets long article about SL and the media: | ||
+ | *http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2009/02/reuters-closes-second-life-bureau-but-virtual-life-goes-on050.html | ||
+ | |||
+ | Dusan tweets virtual worlds hype cycle: | ||
+ | *http://www.muvedesign.com/the-virtual-worlds-hype-cycle-for-2009 | ||
+ | |||
+ | Nick Wilson tweets People Talk article on immersive worlds: | ||
+ | *http://www.muvedesign.com/the-virtual-worlds-hype-cycle-for-2009 | ||
+ | |||
+ | Rheta Shan - and others - experimenting with Plurk's new Twitter-to-Plurk integration. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Cory tweets Ordinal's twitterbox: | ||
+ | *http://ordinalmalaprop.com/twitter | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==22 February 2009== | ||
+ | Notes to self: | ||
+ | *http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/11/googles-seo-starter-guide.html | ||
+ | *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing | ||
+ | *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtualization | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==21 February 2009== | ||
+ | Dr. Manhatten says http://www.reactiongrid.com has been heavily influenced by Erica & Sam Drivers' approach to putting professionalism ahead of anonymity in VW's: | ||
+ | *http://twitter.com/Dr_Manhattan/status/1226389689 | ||
+ | |||
+ | Poinky tweets learning Ruby on Github: | ||
+ | *http://github.com/edgecase/ruby_koans/tree/master | ||
+ | |||
+ | Clever Zebra building a list of Virtual Worlds Communities: | ||
+ | *http://cleverzebra.com/forums/virtual-worlds-communities-groups-and-information-sources | ||
+ | |||
+ | Botgirl tweets Facebook could raise your risk of cancer: | ||
+ | *http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1149207/How-using-Facebook-raise-risk-cancer.html | ||
+ | |||
+ | Nick Wilson tweets Intellagirl presentation (on some kind of technology that is new to me...): | ||
+ | *http://breeze.iu.edu/p22569434 | ||
+ | |||
+ | Tateru tweets - and blogs - MMOX standards: | ||
+ | *http://www.massively.com/2009/02/19/mmox-standards-at-the-74th-ietf | ||
+ | |||
+ | Massively Multiple Online X, at SL wiki: | ||
+ | *http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/MMOX | ||
+ | |||
+ | Nick Wilson tweets AITP Keynote on Virtual Worlds (slides with lots of factoids): | ||
+ | *http://www.slideshare.net/lyrlobo/aitp-keynote-on-virtual-worlds | ||
+ | |||
+ | Nick Wilson tweets Solipsis, Opensource Decentralized Metaverse: | ||
+ | *http://www.solipsis.org | ||
+ | |||
+ | Mitch Wagner tweets how to make gmail ugly: | ||
+ | *http://venturebeat.com/2009/02/19/youre-now-free-to-make-gmail-as-ugly-as-you-want | ||
+ | |||
+ | Botgirl tweets: "Gridiron is scanning my drives now and I'm looking forward to playing with it." | ||
+ | |||
+ | Mitch Joel is president of TwistImage: | ||
+ | *http://www.twistimage.com/blog/about | ||
+ | |||
+ | Mitch Joel's blog features Marc Andreessen: | ||
+ | *http://www.twistimage.com/blog/archives/where-its-at-and-where-its-going-according-to-marc-andreessen/ | ||
+ | |||
+ | Mitch Wagner tweets Cory Doctoro on "collapse anxiety": | ||
+ | *http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/17/how-are-you-coping-w.html | ||
+ | |||
+ | Poinky tweets signific, a Massively Multiplayer Online thought-experiment: | ||
+ | *http://lab.signtific.org | ||
+ | |||
+ | Mitch Wagner is the Copper Robot: | ||
+ | *http://copperrobot.com/index.php?post_id=434115 | ||
+ | |||
+ | Laughing Squid tweets a 100 kilo website: | ||
+ | *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPRQWdk4M_E | ||
+ | |||
+ | And here's the result, the (Czeck) Idea-Entrepreneur website: | ||
+ | *http://www.elektroavdelingen.no | ||
+ | |||
+ | Dusan retweets Mal Burns about virtual goods on Twitter: | ||
+ | *http://twesents.com | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==20 February 2009== | ||
+ | Dusan Writer likes Raph Koster's Metaplace Evangelism. | ||
+ | |||
+ | SinTrenton tweets: "Setting up portable Google Chrome 2.0 with mobile bookmarks on USB. Quickest "jack in anywhere"." | ||
+ | |||
+ | Pavig tweets fatfoogoo "monetizing your game": | ||
+ | *http://www.fatfoogoo.com | ||
+ | |||
+ | Pavig tweets Fireball on "copying the wrong thing": | ||
+ | *http://daringfireball.net/2009/02/copying_the_wrong_thing | ||
+ | |||
+ | Sin Trenton tweets disposable chat rooms: | ||
+ | *http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/18/tinychat-makes-creating-disposable-chat-rooms-a-breeze | ||
+ | |||
+ | Rick van der Wal tweets twitter bots: | ||
+ | *http://infovore.org/archives/2008/12/29/twit-4-dead | ||
+ | |||
+ | Mitch Wagner tweets Vista's DRM not so bad: | ||
+ | *http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/02/oh-the-humanity-windows-7s-draconian-drm.ars | ||
+ | |||
+ | Botgirl tweets a visual story-telling encyclopedia: | ||
+ | *http://www.fulltable.com/VTS/index2.htm | ||
+ | |||
+ | Crinid post about convergent thinking: | ||
+ | *http://www.crinid.com/idea_development/simple-way-to-practise-convergent-thinking | ||
+ | :Answer these questions with one word: | ||
+ | ::What are you passionate about? | ||
+ | ::What do you like about your current job ? | ||
+ | ::What do you value most in life? | ||
+ | ::Where do you want to be in 5 years? | ||
+ | ::What is the stuff dreams are made of? | ||
+ | |||
+ | Rubaiyat tweets clipnabber to download videos: | ||
+ | *http://clipnabber.com | ||
+ | |||
+ | Crap - and others - tweet The Spy Who Lives Here: | ||
+ | *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdVwkUcuxmk&fmt=18 | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==19 February 2009== | ||
+ | Botgirl tweets Stowe Boyde on canonical features of streaming applications: | ||
+ | *http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2009/02/the-architecture-of-flow-key-features-of-streaming-applications.html | ||
+ | |||
+ | Nick Wilson tweets the Aula business environment for SL and OpenSim, which reminds him of his own ill-fated Clever Zebra project: | ||
+ | *http://blog.knowsense.co.uk/blog/_archives/2009/2/11/4089275.html | ||
+ | |||
+ | Nick Wilson tweets Erica Driver's ThinkBalm Innovation Community: | ||
+ | *http://thinkbalm.com | ||
+ | |||
+ | Mitch Wagner tweets Orlov on Social Collapse Best Practices: | ||
+ | *http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2009/02/social-collapse-best-practices.html | ||
+ | |||
+ | Laughing Squid tweets French street artist ZEVS liquidating Google: | ||
+ | *http://gzzglz.com | ||
+ | |||
+ | Nick Wilson tweets a primer on virtual event marketing: | ||
+ | *http://www.marketingsherpa.com/article.php?ident=31049# | ||
+ | |||
+ | Ordinal posts Virtual Worlds Directory Hud at Rezzable: | ||
+ | *http://rezzable.com/vwdirectory/virtual-worlds-directory-hud-instructions | ||
+ | |||
+ | Al Kronos starts a list on Blist about collaboration, social networks or (not "and") enterprise 2.0: | ||
+ | *http://app.blist.com/#/blist/alkronos/Sources-for-information-on-Collaboration-in-the-2-0-World | ||
+ | |||
+ | Botgirl tweets Surfing Google Earth with a Wii board: | ||
+ | *http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/17/surfing-google-earth.html | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==18 February 2009== | ||
Pavig tweets "behaviorists gain access to way-too-much everquest data": | Pavig tweets "behaviorists gain access to way-too-much everquest data": | ||
*http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/02/aaas-60tb-of-behavioral-data-the-everquest-2-server-logs.ars | *http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/02/aaas-60tb-of-behavioral-data-the-everquest-2-server-logs.ars | ||
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Al Kronos tweets CoolViewer, latest alternative SL viewer. | Al Kronos tweets CoolViewer, latest alternative SL viewer. | ||
− | Sin Trenton tweets about ping.fm - I should see what | + | Sin Trenton tweets about ping.fm and Identi.ca - I should see what those are. |
+ | |||
+ | Cory tweets "Josh and Rita's" (and Rose's) SL Islamic project: | ||
+ | *http://twitter.com/CoryOndrejka/status/1215027423 | ||
+ | |||
+ | NickWilson tweets SL parody video: | ||
+ | *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flkgNn50k14 | ||
+ | |||
+ | Ordinal and Pavig tweet Browser HUD: | ||
+ | *http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LSL_Browser_HUD | ||
+ | |||
+ | Dusan tweets Darb Dabney's OpenSim GIS presentation in SL machinima: | ||
+ | *http://blog.simgis.com/2008/12/14/machinima-can-not-equal-a-live-sl-connection-in-presentation/ | ||
+ | |||
+ | Botgirl tweets vizthink: | ||
+ | *http://www.vizthink.com/blog/2009/02/16/amazing-all-new-slate-of-content-scheduled-for-vizthink-09/ | ||
+ | |||
+ | Prokofy tweets Mr. Tweet: | ||
+ | *http://mrtweet.net/?v=12 | ||
+ | |||
+ | Botgirl tweets Feedly: | ||
+ | *http://www.feedly.com | ||
+ | |||
+ | Botgirl tweets sketch sharing: | ||
+ | *http://sketchory.com | ||
+ | |||
+ | Sin Trenton tweets about Tumblr feeding into twitter. | ||
==17 February 2009== | ==17 February 2009== |