My boss’s boss Luba recently asked me to put together a short video for an internal conference on the future of applications. I didn’t have long, so I wandered around Hursley with my camera and my laptop for an afternoon, thinking out loud about the near future for virtual worlds. For anyone following virtual worlds, […]
Tag Archives: virtual worlds
Links for 2008-05-31
Robokill – Lovely top-down robot RPG shooter game [via:waxy Tegaki blog – “It’s easy to create handwriting blog by mouse!” BBC: Sound Index – “The Sound Index is a massive index of the hottest bands and tracks that are being talked about on the internet right now.” … “IBM’s Semantic Super Computing is used to […]
Links for 2008-05-07
Boris Johnson Facts – “The writers of Lost asked Boris how they should end the series.” (after chucknorrisfacts.com) NYT: Microsoft May Build A Copyright Cop Into Every Zune – “…the consumer wants there to be quality premium-produced content, and in order for that to continue to be a viable business, there needs to be significant […]
Links for 2008-04-16
Polaroid Digital Mobile Photo Printer (Zink) – Oooh. Zink (zero ink) technology. The colour lives in the paper. [See also here.] Song Chart Meme – a set on Flickr – Wonderful series of charts which represent song lyrics. Virtual Worlds News: Disney’s Virtual Magic Kingdom to Close Doors – Read the comments for a glimpse […]
Links for 2008-03-01
Create a Google Talk chatback badge – Handy. Not sure I want to use it, but handy. KnowledgeBoard – ‘IBM gambles on a shift from the KM model’ – “the decentralising impact of Web 2.0 calls for a new approach, or what the big blue calls ‘knowledge sharing’” Baekdal.com: Lenovo X300 is Not a Cool […]
Links for 2008-02-26
guardian.co.uk: All this online sharing has to stop – “But, um, music people? Better form an orderly queue. You think you were the first to suffer from your content getting ripped off and spread to the four corners of the earth? Get to the back of the line, bud. There’s a few people ahead of […]
Links for 2008-02-18
cityofsound: The street as platform – An amazing essay on the (near) future for the urban environment. Watchification – Speechification goes televisual. No Gods or Kings: Objectivism in BioShock – “BioShock may have been conceived as a study in nuance, a place for gamers to discover and explore at their own pace, but its dip […]
Links for 2008-02-13
Julius Eckert: Quicksilver Interface plugin – Bezel HUD – I like this a lot. “This is a plugin for the application launcher Quicksilver, reproducing the famous Bezel interface with HUD-Style. ” [via:boagworld and andypiper] Virtual Worlds Conference 2008 – April 3-4, 2008 – schedule – 2:30pm, Friday 4th. “The Evolution of Games and Social Networks: […]
Links for 2008-02-08
Yahoo Live – “661 people are watching 50 Live Channel(s)” [I can’t work out yet whether I’m more likely to use this than Seesmic. I wasn’t entirely stable last night, and I need to play a bit more to really grok it] How to Get More Bookmarks and Better Links – Some useful common sense […]
Links for 2008-02-05
LapJacks – Laptop Skins, iPod Skins And Vinyl Stickers – Alternatives to GelaSkins Laptop Skins by Schtickers – Shop, Create, Participate – More alternatives for stickers. Macworld | Mac OS X Hints | Disable Dashboard – “If you’d like to disable Dashboard, for either RAM usage or other reasons, here’s how to do it” KeyFixer […]