- Terra Nova: Augmented Mixed Reality – Real to virtual and back again – Ian’s thoughtful post on Terra Nova. Augmented reality and virtual worlds.
- Xbox Game Content Usage Rules – Clarifying what fans can do with MSFT game content is a good move. Saying “You can’t add to the game universe or expand on the story told in the game with ‘lost chapters’ or back story or anything like that.” is probably overly restrictive though.
- vSide: Music Virtual World – Doppler’s ‘The Music Lounge’ is now ‘vSide’. Incidentally, like the IBM internal Metaverse, it’s built on Torque.
- Navigating the Media Divide: Innovating and Enabling New Business Models – IBM Institute for Business Value studies paper. “Every day, consumers around the world watch about 100 million videos on YouTube … putting that number in context, the top 15 British primetime television shows combined attract about 100 million viewers,
- BBC NEWS | Social bookmarking links – BBC adds bookmark links for del.icio.us/Digg/reddit/Facebook/StumbleUpon. “Every story page on the News and Sport websites now includes links to a range of social bookmarking / sharing websites.”
- Why We Twitter: Understanding Microblogging Usage and Communities – Interesting paper. Thanks mattb.
- Official Linden Blog: The Second Life Economy – Zee (Linden Lab’s CFO) on the economy of SL.
- IBM developerWorks : Blogs : News and events for Second Life developers – News about IBM Codestation in Second Life. Coder’s challenge happening right now.
- The CandyFab Project – Making Rapid Prototyping a Little Sweeter – Edible home fabrication.