Roo Reynolds - What’s Next?

Links for Wednesday 5th September, 2007

Posted by Roo - 05/09/07 at 10:09:07 am

• Virtual Worlds News: Millions of Us Builds Team to Build New Virtual Worlds – “Reuben Steiger confirmed that the hire is a nod to a new strategy of both building products and private worlds.”
• weffriddles – Online puzzle. Nicely balanced so far, though I’m sure I still have some way to go.
• Freebase an open shared database of the world’s knowledge – Kyb is “maximally excited” so I guess I should investigate
• Lloyd Davis: Danger, Will Robinson! (On privacy) – “I’m happy sharing all sorts of personal details and information about me online … that doesn’t mean that I will share everything online.” I think of privacy online in the same way. I share a lot, but it’s up to me how much I share.
• Tumblr API – Sweet! Tumblr has an API.
• Jeff Pulver: What is YOUR Social Media Strategy? – “It turns out when you decided to put your company ”on the Internet”, like it or not, it would be a lifetime commitment to being subject to ongoing change and innovation”
• Grant McCracken: Social networks and the virtual world – “Eventually, we’ll learn to live in a new kind of social universe that consists of virtual and actual worlds living side by side.”
• Serious Virtual Worlds conference (Coventry, 13th – 14th September 2007) – I’ll be speaking at this on the Friday afternoon next week. Title: “Virtual Worlds for Corporate Collaboration”
• Google Earthâ��s Hidden Surprise: A Flight Simulator – “Hidden inside Google Earth is a secret Flight Simulator that takes full advantage of Google’s extensive satellite imagery.”
• Sigur Ros – Heima (trailer) – Wonderful trailer. Can’t wait.