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.
Day of the Longtail
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, [...]
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, creator of SIMs, the most popular game of all time, has launched his new game called "Spore". Read about it here.
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