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Fans of the short-lived series Firefly will be interested to learn that the show’s ‘verse will be turned into a massively multiplayer online game on the Multiverse platform, at least a beta version of which should be available by sometime in 2008. I’ve just done a story on it for Wired.com, where you can read more details, but note that they haven’t chosen a development team yet, so it’s anyone’s guess what the final game will look and feel like. Here’s hoping it’s as cool as the series. Which rocked.

iVillage, an online community for women established in 1995, is coming to the virtual world of Second Life in the form of a bi-weekly Girls Night Out that will seek to showcase existing content rather than draw people to a branded location, according to Marc Schiller, CEO of digital brand strategy firm Electric Artists, which is launching the initiative in partnership with the Electric Sheep Company (who are, of course, sponsors of this blog). Every two weeks, according to Schiller, a different curator will lead a group of iVillage members on a short tour of interesting locations around Second Life. Tours will take in things like tutorials, music, interesting builds and many other subjects, and will also seek to “highlight the great women who are doing amazing things in Second Life,” he said. The first tour, led by Electric Sheep Cory Edo, will kick off on Thursday, December 14th. (more…)

Reader Richard Hensler just drew my attention to UniveRSS, a 3D RSS feed reader for Windows Vista. My first reaction was, “So what?” But my second reaction was, “Perfect! I need this right away.” Why? Because the size and position of the icons representing each feed in the UniveRSS window is determined by the number of unread items each contains. I don’t know about you, but I have so many feeds in my reader that they’re almost impossible to navigate. A 3D representation of them, sorted in this way, would make them much more useful. My third reaction was, “Why not let us arrange them by relevance, or in some other manner?” But we can do that ourselves, since not only can you download the application, but you can even download the source code itself. Now all I need is Vista, heh.