To show how Social 3D Worlds are permeating the real world the first ever Congressional hearing on Virtual Worlds was run in April of this year. The then CEO of Linden Lab (Second Life) Philip Rosedale, testified before the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, basically telling them about the likely ‘influence’ that 3D [...]
Described by it’s creators as the “first step in an ongoing social experiment, based on twitter inspired by wefeelfine and drawing data from summize“, Twistori is a real time visualiser which displays tweets containing the words love, hate, think, believe, feel and wish. It has a much narrower focus than wefeelfine which visualises a massive [...]
An interesting insight into the most popular social networkers.
Went to a MySpace developers pre-launch party last night and had nice chats with the Australia MySpace crew and visiting US developer leads (see previous post) who are here to catalyse some really cool ‘widgets’ and apps for a still pretty dominant global Social Network. One thing [...]
Online Issues The internet as a creative workspace for artists. Protecting copyright and avoiding liability in respect of user generated content. What are your rights in respect of podcasts, vodcasts and blogs. Legal issues around youtube, myspace, and Facebook. Selling and publishing your work in the online environment – the benefits and pitfalls. Delwyn Everard Arts [...]
YouTube refreshed their leaderboards a few days ago and a strange new video became the Most Viewed Video of All-Time, topping the world-famous Evolution of Dance video. With 89 million views, the new winner is a fan-made music video. Waxy.Org asks if it got there legitimately.
This fascinating article attempts to answer the question “If I can download everything for free what will I pay for?”
“Trust” is identified as a quality that cannot be copied or bought but is earned. While this article is dealing primarily with the internet as a copy machine, the quality of ‘trust’ is one of the [...]
In December 2007 Technorati was tracking over 112 million blogs. With this many people blogging worldwide it’s no wonder that they are beginning to be used as a reliable measure of social sentiment in fields as diverse as politics, finance and art. It might not be visualised with the beauty of We Feel Fine but [...]
