Your avatar is a pervert and your kid may be too (2)
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So apparently Second Life really is all about sex, drugs, violence and all sorts of other deviant behavior, according to an expose that NBC ran last night. The gist of the report is that parents need to keep their kids away from the virtual world or run the risk of having those kids grow up to be first life miscreants as well. Never mind that SL requires the same level of age verification as most ...
You're ahead of the curve. Deal with it... (9)
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A new graph of the Gartner hype cycle for emerging technologies has been popping up on a variety of blogs. If you haven't seen it yet, the graph charts the path that many nascent technologies take from launch, through irrational exuberance, through disillusionment and ultimately to that 'a-ha moment' that leads to measured and rational mainstream adoption. It's classic 'Crossing the Chasm' stuff... What's most interesting to me is that Gartner forecasts that many of ...
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Aaron said:
Very true. I use my wife as my indication that things are moving towards public acceptance. She just signed up with Facebook - almost exactly 2 years after me.
August 22--Free Web Seminar on Ithaka's Research Program: How New Technologies Affect Higher Ed (1)
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Ithaka's research group studies how new technologies are affecting higher education and how colleges and universities can best manage these changes in four discrete program areas: providing academia with the policy basis needed to transition effectively and responsibly away from print collections and toward increasingly electronic-only collections; helping information-services organizations meet the needs of scholars by understanding their changing attitudes and practices; improving the community's understanding of how new information resources drive teaching and learning ...
Hate to tell you, but Web 1.0 was social too. (1)
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Earlier today, I presented at iBreakfast's Web 2.0 NYC Best Practices Conference. As you can imagine, there was a lot of talk about social media and how it has made it possible for people to connect and share with one another online. Tru dat, but this afternoon has me asking myself if this is really that different from so-called Web 1.0. Ah yes, here we go with another 'Verdino as Cranky Old Man' post... I'm ...
A 7 letter word for napkin that starts with "tw'" (1)
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It may look like just another doodle by a bored meeting attendee. And it might be on a legal pad rather than on the proverbial back of a napkin, but the picture above is a bona fide piece of Web 2.0 history -- or maybe I should say twistory (not to be confused with Twistori.) Just as Twitter is seemingly crossing the chasm, if mainstream media coverage is any indication, co-founder Jack Dorsey has posted ...
Wisia.us: a new social media powered poll tool (2)
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I'm playing around with wisia.us, a new collaborative polling community that is in private beta right now. What, you may be asking, is collaborative polling? Well, let's say you want an answer to a question like "what are the best blogs that every marketing executive should read?" You sign into wisia and you create a poll. Then any other wisia community member can add their picks to the list of possible poll responses. When the ...
(All day, all day) avatar dancing (1)
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Although I've been assured that this video is more creepy than cool, I can't stop watching it. What do you think? Totally creepy or totally cool? My Life as An Avatar 06-08 from Annie Ok on Vimeo.[Feed and email readers, click through to watch the embedded video.]
Second Life: still around, still about community (1)
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Ah, good ol' Second Life. For many marketers, this virtual world (and by association, maybe the others too) has been relegated to the list of 2007 Fads We're Glad Have Passed -- even if it means that those marketers have been a bit too hasty in their rush to judgment. As I've often said Second Life, much like any nascent social computing platform (Twitter, anyone?), is less interesting for what it is (a buggy first ...
Mighty morphin' power ringer (1)
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No that's not a typo. If you haven't seen the demo of the Nokia Morph concept phone, you should definitely check it out (below.) But first, here's what I'm taking about. In conjunction with MOMA's "Design and the Elastic Mind" exhibition, Nokia premiered a short film that shows off a phone-of-the-future concept that they developed in partnership with Cambridge Nanoscience Centre. The concept, called Morph, is essentially an all-in-one portable communications device that leverages leading ...
Why Second Life is important to learning (1)
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Check this out! It is a great resouce for anyone interested in using Second Life, or other Virtual World technologies for learning purposes. The video was created by Dr. Tony O’Driscoll, formerly with IBM and now a professor at North Carolina State University (and one of the most brilliant people I know). In the video Tony lists (and illustrates with Second Life demos) the “Seven Sensibilities of Learning in a Virtual World,” which include: 1. ...
