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==28 February 2009==
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Bevan Whitfield tweets a writer's guide to SL:
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*http://www.writersinthevirtualsky.com/a-writers-guide-to-learning-about-second-life-part-3
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Bevan tweets what you can dev for your country:
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*http://technosailor.com/2009/02/21/ask-not-what-your-country-can-dev-for-you
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Crap retweets MalBurns - virtualworldbusiness.com on avoiding the virtual land trap
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*http://virtualworldbusiness.com/2009/02/26/avoiding-the-virtual-land-trap
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Orban (who else) tweets H+ a slick singularity magazine:
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*http://hplusmagazine.com/digitaledition/2009-spring
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Bevan tweets somegreyblock on what Facebook is for:
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*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFKHaFJzUb4
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Nick W tweets culture in Virtual Worlds:
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*http://jvwresearch.org/v1n3.html
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Prok tweets (and trashes) Facebook opens governance to users:
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*http://www.facebook.com/press/releases.php?p=85587
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Bevan retweets Novamente paper on behaviour in virtual animals:
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*http://www.novamente.net/file/AISB08_Goertzel.pdf
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Squid tweets 140pedia:
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*http://140pedia.com
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Dusan tweets MMOX use cases:
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*http://www.interopworld.com/mmox-use-cases
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Botgirl using issuu for her comic magazines:
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*http://issuu.com
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Dusan tweets QuakeLive in a browser:
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*http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/02/flash.html
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Bevan tweets New Media Corporation "sandbox":
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*http://sl.nmc.org
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==27 February 2009==
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Orban tweets public data sets from Amazon Web Services:
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*http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/02/new-aws-public-data-sets-economics-dbpedia-freebase-and-wikipedia.html
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Mitch Wagner tweets Microsoft standing to profit from downturn:
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*http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/02/decoding_steve.html?cid=RSSfeed_IWK_ALL
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Botgirl retweeting Bevan Whitfield on Journal of Virtual World Research:
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*http://journals.tdl.org/jvwr/index
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Poinky tweets Kjerulf on Lego business cards:
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*http://positivesharing.com/2009/02/coolest-business-card-ever/
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Laughing Squid tweets Someecards:
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*http://www.someecards.com/upload/lent/id_consider_following.html
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Bevan Whitfield tweets VMwares cloud API ambitions:
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*http://www.elasticvapor.com/2009/02/vmwares-vcloud-api-still-hazy-ambitions.html
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Al K tweets Twitter for Business 101:
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*http://www.slideshare.net/pistachio/webcom-montreal
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Prok mentions wordles:
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*http://www.wordle.net
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Mitch retweets Obama's elf:
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*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_B5UrI7nAI
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Josh Knauer tweets where does data go when services die:
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*http://www.rhizalabs.com/2009/02/23/where-does-data-go-when-services-die
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M's entry on the new SL blog network, with Prok unblocked:
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*https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/features/blog/2009/02/24/a-day-in-the-lab-with-m#comments
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==26 February 2009==
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Rvdwals tweets the Smashing Book (and disapproves of its foreseen 30 dollar price tag):
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*http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/02/24/the-smashing-book-join-in
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==25 February 2009==
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iYan tweets Boxxy, the rise of an Internet meme:
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*http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/jan/20/internet
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*http://boxxystory.blogspot.com
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Al Kronos tweets Steve Dale on Is Social Networking Learning:
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*http://steve-dale.net/2009/02/23/is-social-networking-learning
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Al Kronos tweets the Coke "avatar" ad:
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*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwke0LNardc
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Pavig tweets victory of goons over bob in Eve Online:
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*http://www.offworld.com/2009/02/ragdoll-metaphysics-good-grief.html
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Orban backed up his account with Tweetake
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Gwyneth tweets:
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*She wonders why There.com wants to help to define the Open Gateway Protocol
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*MMOX has been the setting for the latest "Prokofy Wars"
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Ugotrade reading The Wealth of Networks by Yochai Benkler
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Davidorban wants to compare Feedly to Twine
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Josh Knauer uses both http://glance.net and http://gotomeeting.com depending on his meeting needs
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Orban tweets Yahoo, Adobe, online word processors and desktop advertising:
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*http://seekingalpha.com/article/66018-yahoo-adobe-it-s-a-vision-thing
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Mashable blogs 13 online word processors:
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*http://mashable.com/2008/02/11/13-word-processors
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Adobe's BuzzWord:
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http://www.adobe.com/acom/buzzword
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Was it Squid who tweeted this flickr thread full of Blingee? -
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*http://www.flickr.com/photos/dorkmaster/3287780385/page2/#comment72157614272355567
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Rdvwal tweets Font Conference:
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*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8Nh0sZt8IU
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Pavig tweets NASA's MMO game using Unreal Engine:
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*http://news.bigdownload.com/2009/02/19/feature-first-look-at-nasas-unreal-engine-3-based-mmo
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Pavig tweets historic 2003 Bill Gate rant about Windows' lack of usability:
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*http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/141821.asp
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Pavig tweets a comparison of in-game web browsers:
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*http://au.gamespot.com/features/6204588/?skipmc=1&tag=mncol;txt
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Gweneth explains updating your social sites from inside SL with hellotxt:
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*http://gwynethllewelyn.net/2009/02/24/updating-your-social-websites-status-from-inside-second-life
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Gwyneth tweets: "Success! SL <-> Ping.fm works flawlessly! Now I just need my Ping.fm API key approved by them"
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She adds: "Someone beat me to a Ping.fm HUD."
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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."
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*https://twitter.com/markus_breuer/status/1244467310
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Poinky tweets phasing, the new instancing:
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*http://www.massively.com/2009/02/23/mmogology-phasing-phwns-the-phuture/
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Hamlet Au on OpenSim:
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*http://ostatic.com/blog/an-introduction-to-opensim-the-apache-of-virtual-worlds
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Rik surprised to discover his profile on the SL website:
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*http://world.secondlife.com/resident/e87973b9-4e5f-41f9-b9a4-3efa6d1d8b43
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Mitch Wagner tweets Google kicks Safari:
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*http://www.macworld.com/article/139011/2009/02/chrome_safari_4.html?lsrc=rss_main
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Cory tweets reboot.gov:
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*http://yeswescan.org
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==24 February 2009==
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Grace McDonnough tweets 3D immersive holographic spaces:
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*http://www.telepresenceoptions.com/2009/02/the_case_for_4d_immersive_holo
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Prok tweets Mashable on why big brand struggle with social media:
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*http://mashable.com/2009/02/20/big-brands-social-media
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Botgirl retweets Rheingold on thesis about user participation:
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*http://mtschaefer.net/entry/defending-my-bastard-culture
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Laughing Squid tweets a pix.ly contest about twitter:
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*http://twit.pix.ly/winloss/show/106
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Dusan Writer tweets M Linden's Flickr stream:
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*http://www.flickr.com/photos/mlinden
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Dusan tweets Novicraft virtual world team building:
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*http://www.metaversejournal.com/2009/02/22/novicraft-virtual-world-team-building/
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David Orban tweets embed flickr slideshows on your blog:
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*http://ptamaro.posterous.com/cool-tool-flickrslider-embed-f
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Al Kronos tweets yammer:
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*https://www.yammer.com
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Mitch Wagner trying bookmarklet for posting to Twitter: twitlet and bit.ly, but rejects automated tumblr posts for this purpose.
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Rubaiyat posts his ATC project:
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*http://rubaiyat.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/macbeth-sv
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Ugo Trade joins Metaverse twitter group:
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*http://twittgroups.com/group/metaverse
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Pavig tweets Cenon, open source vector art package:
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*http://www.cenon.info
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Valleywag takes flack for writing The End of Second Life (lots of "End of Valleywag" posts):
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*http://valleywag.gawker.com/5158190/the-end-of-second-life
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==23 February 2009==
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Gwyneth Llewelyn using hellotxt to update across all social software at once:
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*http://hellotxt.com
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Mitch Wagner tweets why hulu should embrace boxee (but what are these, and why should we care?):
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*http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/02/the-valentines-day-breakup.html
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Fast Company call-in on virtual worlds, with Tish Shute:
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*http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/joseph-allan/customer-conversation/next-generation-interaction-are-virtual-worlds-waiting-wings
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Dusan tweets long article about SL and the media:
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*http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2009/02/reuters-closes-second-life-bureau-but-virtual-life-goes-on050.html
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Dusan tweets virtual worlds hype cycle:
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*http://www.muvedesign.com/the-virtual-worlds-hype-cycle-for-2009
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Nick Wilson tweets People Talk article on immersive worlds:
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*http://www.muvedesign.com/the-virtual-worlds-hype-cycle-for-2009
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Rheta Shan - and others - experimenting with Plurk's new Twitter-to-Plurk integration.
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Cory tweets Ordinal's twitterbox:
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*http://ordinalmalaprop.com/twitter
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==22 February 2009==
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Notes to self:
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*http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/11/googles-seo-starter-guide.html
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*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing
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*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtualization
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==21 February 2009==
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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:
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*http://twitter.com/Dr_Manhattan/status/1226389689
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Poinky tweets learning Ruby on Github:
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*http://github.com/edgecase/ruby_koans/tree/master
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Clever Zebra building a list of Virtual Worlds Communities:
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*http://cleverzebra.com/forums/virtual-worlds-communities-groups-and-information-sources
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Botgirl tweets Facebook could raise your risk of cancer:
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*http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1149207/How-using-Facebook-raise-risk-cancer.html
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Nick Wilson tweets Intellagirl presentation (on some kind of technology that is new to me...):
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*http://breeze.iu.edu/p22569434
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Tateru tweets - and blogs - MMOX standards:
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*http://www.massively.com/2009/02/19/mmox-standards-at-the-74th-ietf
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Massively Multiple Online X, at SL wiki:
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*http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/MMOX
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Nick Wilson tweets AITP Keynote on Virtual Worlds (slides with lots of factoids):
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*http://www.slideshare.net/lyrlobo/aitp-keynote-on-virtual-worlds
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Nick Wilson tweets Solipsis, Opensource Decentralized Metaverse:
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*http://www.solipsis.org
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Mitch Wagner tweets how to make gmail ugly:
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*http://venturebeat.com/2009/02/19/youre-now-free-to-make-gmail-as-ugly-as-you-want
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Botgirl tweets: "Gridiron is scanning my drives now and I'm looking forward to playing with it."
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Mitch Joel is president of TwistImage:
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*http://www.twistimage.com/blog/about
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Mitch Joel's blog features Marc Andreessen:
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*http://www.twistimage.com/blog/archives/where-its-at-and-where-its-going-according-to-marc-andreessen/
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Mitch Wagner tweets Cory Doctoro on "collapse anxiety":
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*http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/17/how-are-you-coping-w.html
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Poinky tweets signific, a Massively Multiplayer Online thought-experiment:
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*http://lab.signtific.org
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Mitch Wagner is the Copper Robot:
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*http://copperrobot.com/index.php?post_id=434115
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Laughing Squid tweets a 100 kilo website:
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*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPRQWdk4M_E
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And here's the result, the (Czeck) Idea-Entrepreneur website:
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*http://www.elektroavdelingen.no
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Dusan retweets Mal Burns about virtual goods on Twitter:
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*http://twesents.com
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==20 February 2009==
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Dusan Writer likes Raph Koster's Metaplace Evangelism.
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SinTrenton tweets: "Setting up portable Google Chrome 2.0 with mobile bookmarks on USB. Quickest "jack in anywhere"."
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Pavig tweets fatfoogoo "monetizing your game":
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*http://www.fatfoogoo.com
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Pavig tweets Fireball on "copying the wrong thing":
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*http://daringfireball.net/2009/02/copying_the_wrong_thing
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Sin Trenton tweets disposable chat rooms:
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*http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/18/tinychat-makes-creating-disposable-chat-rooms-a-breeze
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Rick van der Wal tweets twitter bots:
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*http://infovore.org/archives/2008/12/29/twit-4-dead
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Mitch Wagner tweets Vista's DRM not so bad:
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*http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/02/oh-the-humanity-windows-7s-draconian-drm.ars
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Botgirl tweets a visual story-telling encyclopedia:
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*http://www.fulltable.com/VTS/index2.htm
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Crinid post about convergent thinking:
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*http://www.crinid.com/idea_development/simple-way-to-practise-convergent-thinking
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:Answer these questions with one word:
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::What are you passionate about?
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::What do you like about your current job ?
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::What do you value most in life?
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::Where do you want to be in 5 years?
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::What is the stuff dreams are made of?
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Rubaiyat tweets clipnabber to download videos:
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*http://clipnabber.com
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Crap - and others - tweet The Spy Who Lives Here:
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*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdVwkUcuxmk&fmt=18
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==19 February 2009==
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Botgirl tweets Stowe Boyde on canonical features of streaming applications:
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*http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2009/02/the-architecture-of-flow-key-features-of-streaming-applications.html
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Nick Wilson tweets the Aula business environment for SL and OpenSim, which reminds him of his own ill-fated Clever Zebra project:
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*http://blog.knowsense.co.uk/blog/_archives/2009/2/11/4089275.html
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Nick Wilson tweets Erica Driver's ThinkBalm Innovation Community:
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*http://thinkbalm.com
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Mitch Wagner tweets Orlov on Social Collapse Best Practices:
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*http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2009/02/social-collapse-best-practices.html
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Laughing Squid tweets French street artist ZEVS liquidating Google:
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*http://gzzglz.com
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Nick Wilson tweets a primer on virtual event marketing:
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*http://www.marketingsherpa.com/article.php?ident=31049#
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Ordinal posts Virtual Worlds Directory Hud at Rezzable:
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*http://rezzable.com/vwdirectory/virtual-worlds-directory-hud-instructions
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Al Kronos starts a list on Blist about collaboration, social networks or (not "and") enterprise 2.0:
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*http://app.blist.com/#/blist/alkronos/Sources-for-information-on-Collaboration-in-the-2-0-World
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Botgirl tweets Surfing Google Earth with a Wii board:
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*http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/17/surfing-google-earth.html
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==18 February 2009==
 
==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":
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Sin Trenton tweets about ping.fm and Identi.ca - I should see what those are.
 
Sin Trenton tweets about ping.fm and Identi.ca - I should see what those are.
  
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Cory tweets Josh and Rita's SL Islamic project:
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Cory tweets "Josh and Rita's" (and Rose's) SL Islamic project:
 
*http://twitter.com/CoryOndrejka/status/1215027423
 
*http://twitter.com/CoryOndrejka/status/1215027423
  
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Botgirl tweets sketch sharing:
 
Botgirl tweets sketch sharing:
 
*http://sketchory.com
 
*http://sketchory.com
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Sin Trenton tweets about Tumblr feeding into twitter.
  
 
==17 February 2009==
 
==17 February 2009==

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