Monday, July 31, 2006

Day of the Longtail

Excellent and comical look that puts the hype around the Long Tail into perspective! This is really worth 5 minutes of your time.

Thursday, July 27, 2006

Articles on the MVM-Higgins-BestBuy Demo

Artices on the MVM-Higgins-BestBuy demo at the Identity Mash-up Conference in June. This conference was organised by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at the Harvard Law School in Boston. Also a good explanation of Parity Inc.

The prompt of doom (or is that despair?) by ZDNet's David Berlind -- Having recently switched computers because of a hard drive failure, I can completely relate to Tim Bray's angst over what I'll call the prompt of despair (he calls it the prompt of doom): the one where your browser asks you if you want it to remember the password your putting into some site for you. [...]


Passion, common vision drove Higgins to success. Not big vendor agendas. by ZDNet's David Berlind -- There's something special about witnessing innovation as it happens right in front of you. To a large extent, that's what this week's Identity Mashup Conference at Harvard University was about. Sure, there were a lot of interesting panel discussions that dove deep into all sorts of thought-provoking issues that were relevant to identity. But, [...]

Friday, July 21, 2006

MVM's new game - create your dorm room at Sears

Sure I may be a bit old to go back to school, but I am proud to show you my dorm room decorated with real products from Sears. Have fun here!

Will Wright's new game - Spore


Will Wright, creator of SIMs, the most popular game of all time, has launched his new game called "Spore".  Read about it here.

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Second Tense: Googlezilla vs. Linden Labjira

Here is a good overview of the exciting and tenous place Second Life has in the metaverse race. The author of this blog have also opened a full time consulting job to provide services in Second Life.Second Tense: Googlezilla vs. Linden Labjira