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Readers might remember the business plan contest that was announced last November by Edelman and the Electric Sheep Company (sponsors of this blog). You’ll be able to find out who had the best get-rich-quick (or -slow) scheme on Monday, February 19, when the winners are announced on »Edelman Island«, according to Sheep Giff Constable. The four finalists:

* Anthony Reisman, Navillus Batra, Trilobye Pugilist, and Woodrow Seelowe: Metaverse Tech
* Frank Koolhaas and Zoe Visconti: SL Search
* Ozgur Ariel, Cihan Ariel, and Muammer Ariel: SL Music Network
* Pebbles Hannya: Market Truths

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The Sundance Channel in Second Life will be holding weekly screenings of films from the festival and elsewhere, beginning tonight at 5:00pm SL time (8:00pm Eastern), according to the site. Tonight’s screening will feature the “Best of the Fest” wrap-up episode of Sundance’s “Festival Dailies” coverage from the 2007 Festival, followed next week by six “Greenimation” eco-friendly animated shorts, and on March 2 by the nine films in the “Art of Seduction” series.

The open screenings will take place at the Sundance’s main Second Life »screening room«. You can also find video on demand at several media lounges at the Sundance build, featuring more short films and promos for Sundance Channel shoes. Check it out.

Progress Bar flags a post from Pink Tentacle (which is itself a translation of a Japanese news story) about a new micro-miniaturized radio frequency identification (RFID) chip that’s been developed by Hitachi. The new chip is 0.05 x 0.05 millimeters — that’s 1/20th of a millimeter on either side, or small enough to exist as a powder or dust, and possibly even as a floating cloud. Each can store a 38-digit number, which means you could actually get quite a bit of information into a cloud or dusting of such chips. The pic above (borrowed from Pink Tentacle) shows an older chip on the left, and the new chips on the right, next to a human hair. While Pink Tentacle mentions them in connection with embedding them in sheets of paper, that doesn’t even begin to touch the potential for this kind of thing. I’m much more interested in more 3D-focused applications that these could be used for. (more…)

Let’s dispense with the news straight off: The metaverse meetup that’s slated for 23 February now has a location: Planet Thailand in Williamsburg, which is letting us take over their back room for the event, so you’ll be able to munch Pad Thai and eggplant and wander around and chat to whoever you want to. More importantly, though, a bunch of us checked out Uffie at the Hiro Ballroom last night, and she was awesome — at least, in her way. And in fact, the show was a really interesting look at how deeply the idea of lifelogging and recording one’s raw experience has infected the choices entertainers are making and how that’s affecting the kinds of media that are being created these days. (Pics at the end of it all as well.) (more…)