Posts Tagged ‘ Web-2.0 ’

Ludlow and Wallace on MITP Podcast

That’s Ludlow as in Peter Ludlow, who founded the Second Life Herald, and Wallace as in myself, who occasionally does some work over there. We’re interviewed on Episode #2 of the MIT Press podcast, which you can listen to via this link. (You have to listen through some advertisements for the podcast itself at the [ READ MORE ]

Guardian Lays Out Potential of Virtual Worlds

The Guardian had not a bad story the other day about the potential for virtual worlds, focusing mostly on business uses. In contrast to some other recent takes on this in the press, the Guardian story seems more balanced to me, acknowledging that things are still at an early stage, and also tipping their hat [ READ MORE ]

Virtual Goods: The Next Big Business Model?

Conference host Susan Wu moderated an afternoon panel addressing the question of whether virtual worlds are “the next big business model” at the Virtual Goods Summit. Panelists: Tim Stevens of Doppelganger Kevin Effrusy, general partner with Accel Partners (investor in Facebook) Dan Kelly, CEO of Sparter Min Kim of Nexon Susan: How do you guys [ READ MORE ]

Shirky and Caruso at Supernova: Risk vs. Love

Denise Caruso and Clay Shirky opened Supernova 2007 this morning by approaching the socially networked environment of the World Wide Web from two different directions. Caruso’s basic thesis was that people needed to break out of their insular social networks and take additional risks in order to bring in a greater variety of viewpoints and [ READ MORE ]

Lifelogging and Identity in the Metaverse

One of the great things about lifelogging is that it takes a bunch of data that formerly had been in the hands only of companies and the government, if anyone, and puts it back in the hands of the individual. At the moment, Amazon.com knows enough about me to recommend Infotopia, but unless I care [ READ MORE ]

Amazon Web Services Opens Second Life Site

I checked into the virtual world of Second Life tonight for a sneak peek at two islands that were just opened by Amazon Web Services as a community-building effort for AWS developers. According to SL resident Jeffronius Batra (aka Jeff Barr, Amazon’s senior Web services evangelist), »the islands« — which are an official Amazon project [ READ MORE ]

New Identity, Lifelogging and Presence Tools

Pete Cashmore’s excellent Mashable has featured a couple of interesting sites in the last few days that are moving closer to the kind of identity-building tools I’ve been thinking about lately, including the identity-information aggregator I Twitter-predicted for epredator: OtherEgo and YouGetIt let you aggregate your social networking-style identities on a single page. MobileOX is [ READ MORE ]

3pointD Turns 1: On The Metaverse Ahead

No April Fool’s joke this: 3pointD turned one year old today! It was in the early hours (early minutes, actually) of April 1, 2006, that I posted my first Hello, World! here. Something like 1,400 posts later (can that be? WordPress must be over-counting) and our mission remains the same: “At its most fundamental level, [ READ MORE ]

SL Framework for Drupal: “Real Soon Now”

The Second Life Drupal Group has an interesting piece of news: a Drupal framework is apparently in development that would allow Drupal modules to interact with objects in the virtual world of Second Life. There’s no code on the project page at the moment, but it’s coming “Real Soon Now,” according to a comment made [ READ MORE ]

L Word in SL Pushes Itself Onto MySpace

The L Word build in the virtual world of Second Life (created by the Electric Sheep Company, sponsors of this blog) has apparently generated quite a following, and is reportedly one of the more successful corporate VW communities in Second Life. Now an interesting thing has happened: Fatty Cardiff, one of the earliest L Word [ READ MORE ]

Metaversum Developing Web 2.0 World in Berlin

After I saw the I-D Media team in Berlin, I met up with Jeremy Snyder of the Berlin-based Metaversum, which I learned is currently working on a virtual world that will feature Web 2.0 integration that sounds along the lines of what’s being done in Kaneva, though perhaps with some extra features. Metaversum’s world has [ READ MORE ]

Next-Gen: Web Integration in Virtual Worlds

The presentation I gave in Berlin on Thursday was ostensibly on “virtual worlds, media and identity,” but as I’ve been going over it I’m finding it’s extending itself into a small picture of what the next generation of virtual worlds might look like and how we might get there. A lot of it was stuff [ READ MORE ]

Three Second Life-to-Web Services Updated

Three services we brought you recently that mash up the virtual world of Second Life and the (also virtual, in its way) World Wide Web, have had new versions released in the last few days. Sloog, TwitterBox, and SLateIt, (originally blogged here, here, and here), are three instances of one of my favorite things: they’re [ READ MORE ]

Read the Design of the Future in Helvetica

I’m in the Austin airport on the way back from South by Southwest (my flight of course delayed by snow in New York [and actually, I'm home now]), and I just snapped this vaguely Sesame Street-like picture of the number 18. Not just any 18, though: It’s a Helvetica 18, brought to my attention by [ READ MORE ]

SXSW Xcript: Joi Ito and Justin Hall

Venture capitalist and World of Warcraft addict Joi Ito and lifelogger Justin Hall sat down for a conversation together in Room 9C on Monday afternoon at South by Southwest. Ben Cerveny joined them midway. Title of the talk: Online Games: Beyond Play and Fantasy. Ito: I know everyone says this, but we’re going to try [ READ MORE ]

Clocking in at the Idea Factory (or the Farm)

Regular readers know I’ve been making noise lately about an idea factory that would seek to leverage (sorry, Ordinal) the skills of anyone who cared to participate in an effort to create any or all of a list of wish apps that had also been created by the community. As previously noted, I had to [ READ MORE ]

Sloog Gets its Tags Up in Second Life

I’m going to go ahead and call Sloog the best Web 2.0-style site for the virtual world of Second Life that I’ve seen yet. Sloog lets you tag locations in Second Life, storing them in the Sloog system so you can access them later on the Web. It’s a bit like del.icio.us tagging or Digg-ing [ READ MORE ]

The Beautiful Simplicity of Twitter (and BlogHUD)

Second Life resident Koz Farina, creator of the very popular BlogHUD tool for blogging from within SL, is developing a system to allow you to cross-post your BlogHUD posts to your account on Twitter, the hot new social site that lets you miniblog along with your friends. Koz is already feeding all BlogHUD posts to [ READ MORE ]

Moo.com Cards For Second Life Available

I’ve been looking for an excuse to blog about my new set of Moo.com cards, and Adam Pasick (Reuters’ correspondent in the virtual world of Second Life) provides it: he reports that Moo.com — which makes mini business cards from your Flickr photos — is now offering cards made from screenshots uploaded directly from Second [ READ MORE ]

Toward a Metaversal Idea Factory

After the metaverse meetup we held recently, Jerry and I and several others have been pondering how to help some of the ideas that were kicking around there take shape. On Saturday, Jerry got together with several interested parties (I couldn’t make it), to discuss some approaches. I’d been talking about an “idea farm,” but [ READ MORE ]

Multiuser Google Earth Mashup in Development

Murat Aktihanoglu, who I met at the recent metaverse meetup, sends words of a mashup he’s developing that will make Google Earth into a multi-user application with the help of Skype. Needless to say, this is the kind of thing that excites 3pointD, and is in fact something we’ve been looking for for some time. [ READ MORE ]

Lifelogging the Living Canvas: Dylan to YouTube

The above YouTube clip, from Minneapolis artist Phil Hansen, doesn’t appear to be all that 3pointD, at first, but appearances can be deceiving. It’s a full five minutes of some really nice action painting with a unique twist (which I won’t give away; hit the Play button already!). In an unbelievably fortuitous moment of technological [ READ MORE ]

Mini Cooper Rolls With Web 2.0 Game in SL

Call me Mad Dog Winters. (I’ll explain in a sec.) The Mini Cooper, everyone’s favorite cute little British car, is teaming up with Reuben Steiger’s Millions of Us to bring a cool-sounding promotion for the new Cooper S to the virtual world of Second Life. The thing I especially like about this project is that [ READ MORE ]

IBM CodeStation Library Resource in SL

The »IBM CODESTATION« island I blogged about just now does indeed include a library of open-source objects and LSL code — though not quite in the way I’d hoped. What IBM has done is create a repository of scripted objects and scripts themselves — things like a clock, a teleporter, a mailbox, an object that [ READ MORE ]

Find Your Way to IBM CodeStation in SL

Boy am I glad I stumbled on Aleister Kronos’s Ambling in Second Life blog today, since Aleister himself stumbled on IBM CODESTATION island in the virtual world of Second Life a couple of weeks ago. I just had a visit, and I’m happy to say it includes one of the coolest projects I’ve seen in [ READ MORE ]

A Missive From the Crossroads of Second Life

I received a nice note from Cory Ondrejka, chief technology officer at Linden Lab, makers of the virtual world of Second Life, in response to my looong post of Saturday entitled “Linden Lab Approaches A Crossroads.” I won’t quote from it, as it’s not an official LL response, but I’ll raise a couple of the [ READ MORE ]

Linden Lab Approaches A Crossroads

In the space of two days, Linden Lab, maker of the virtual world of Second Life, has made three separate announcements that indicate trouble may be on the horizon for the company — if it hasn’t already arrived. Two of them have raised renewed alarms about the platform’s scalability. Though CEO Philip Rosedale blithely assured [ READ MORE ]

Firefox Toolbar for Second Life Users? Legit?

Kitten Fluff has noticed a plugin for Firefox running on your Windows machine that gives you a Second Life-related browser toolbar. While the download page itself gives precious few clues as to why you’d want to use something like this, the toolbar seems to have a ZDNet download page that gives more information. The toolbar [ READ MORE ]

Ogoglio SourceForges Ahead

Trevor Smith, who’s been hard at work on his open-source 3D platform, Ogoglio, has begun a SourceForge project, where he’ll eventually make the code available. While there aren’t any file packages yet, you can browse the repository if you want to get a look at the bits of code Trevor has made available so far. [ READ MORE ]

New Tools For The 3pointD Generation

Two new applications out recently — Yahoo! Pipes and IBM’s QEDWiki — contain much promise for the 3pointD world. They’re basically mashupmakers (mashuppers? mashers?), GUI-based systems that let you create your own mashups without having to get too deep into code. They’re still a bit beyond my ability to really check out without spending a [ READ MORE ]

Can A Million Penguins Write A Wiki Novel?

This isn’t specifically Second Life-related, but it’s a project that a Second Life resident is helping to run and it’s very cool, so I thought I’d mention it here. SL resident Jeremy Neumann helped bring excerpts from the seminal metaversal novel Snow Crash to Second Life last August. Now, in the guise of his real-world [ READ MORE ]

Coleman Wins 1st Round In Virtual Worlds Bout

An experimental three-way conversation about the future of virtual worlds is taking place among Clay Shirky, Henry Jenkins and Beth Coleman, the first round of which is now complete with Beth’s recent post. I find myself reluctant to even blog about this, as most of the conversation leading up to this point (kicked off by [ READ MORE ]