Archive for August, 2006

Making meetings more human?

Monday, August 14th, 2006

In a normal teleconference or e-meeting the human elements of interaction get diluted. Can metaverse ideas like Second Life help with this, it would appear so.

Ricetta: Media PC alla Linux

Monday, August 14th, 2006

Apologies for resorting to a pseudo-Italian title …my way of making this slightly interesting! So, here’s how the IBM Thinkpad Linux Media PC is coming along so far, and if you have any ideas feel free to comment as I’d love to see what other useful stuff I can do too.
Ingredients
1 Thinkpad T23
1 cheap [...]

More Amazon developments in Second Life

Friday, August 11th, 2006

Hugo’s (and Tabatha’s) work get a full article on the amazon web services blog

Its odd how things start to get linked with Second Life

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

I was having a conversation with text100 around a possible Second Life/metaverse conversation to various people. Lo and behold there there are in Second Life.

IBM TP LMC

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

Roughly translated… IBM Thinkpad Linux Media Centre - while not a product IBM ships (or is likely to ship), is something I’ve been thinking about for a while and just started toying with recently. I have an old Aiwa stereo at home that keeps asking me for retirement so this idea has been seeded [...]

Her name is Rio and she dances on the virtual sand

Monday, August 7th, 2006

Duran Duran in Second Life as well as channel 4

Channel4 does Second Life

Monday, August 7th, 2006

Channel 4 in the UK has a Second Life event

Suzanne Vega Second Life report

Saturday, August 5th, 2006

Suzanne Vega in Live in SL on New World Notes

Yossarian breaks the Language barrier in Second Life

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

Yossarian seattle of Eightbar has a HUD attachment language translator in Second Life

Late night, Worrying about SL misrepresentation and enjoying the stars

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

Some considerations of why elements of SL are actual good for spotting ‘bad’ people, and cheering me up with the International Space exhibit