Part of our ongoing series related to The Influence Project.For the past few months, while my colleague Mark Borden was busy with the planning stages of the Influence Project, I’ve been working on my own personal influence ...READ»
Facebook is partnering with MOL Global to deliver a new way to buy Facebook credits--in person at a MOL-connected store. It's a strange real world/virtual world crossover, and definitely a sign of the way future digital finances will ...READ»
Security issues have forced the Chinese military authorities to clamp down on their troops' Internet use. As well as a moratorium on blogging, the 2.3 million military personnel are forbidden from using online dating sites, personal ...READ»
Booyah, the location-based game firm that's big on virtual goods, is earning real-time fans--and backers. The Palo Alto startup, led by Keith Lee, has amassed a not-to-be-sniffed-at $20 million from Accel Partners, whose Jim Breyer ...READ»
Advertising creatives like to think of themselves as rock stars, but the trend of too-hip-for-the-room agency names has gone too far when they're indistinguishable from the folks who sing for kids sporting bushy beards and ironic T-shirts.READ»
How much do you know about new “virtual worlds and 3D TV” technology developments? Maybe, you thought they were just a lot of online video game hype for kids but look deeper into today’s virtual world platforms like Second Life ...READ»
The Gamers
Shinyoung Park
Foudner Funji
In real life, most teens and tweens can't hit the clubs or crash late-night parties. (We're ignoring Miley Cyrus.) But on Funji, the first avatar-based social ...READ»
Kent Quirk says the future of office meetings lies in Linden Lab's Second Life. The aptly named Quirk, a speaker at this Waltham, Massachusetts, gathering, may be biased: He's a developer at the lab. But it has been trying to make ...READ»
Brain-computer interfaces are the stuff of sci-fi legend, used a million times to further the plot of a thousand different books. And now they're also real, (nearly) buyable products: Thanks to Intendix you can think your PC into ...READ»
You've seen Second Life, right? That was the virtual world that got a lot of hype about two years ago. It was very cool, but it had some significant limitations. First it required a download so wasn't easily embeddable into a web ...READ»
Always on the cutting edge, Google is once again venturing into a new area of tech – virtual real estate, to be exact. Google has obtained a patent to secure advertising space within its Maps Street View feature, opening up a whole new world of internet advertising.READ»
What visual features connected with our audience this year? From cool packages and creative people to digital characters and business books, these are the most viewed galleries of 2009.READ»
1 Family Guy
You can get the five most recent episodes and more than 300 clips of Seth MacFarlane's crude cartoon. Hulu's most-watched episode as of September: "Stew-roids."
2 The Office
The show is also among NBC's ...READ»
Say what you like about virtual world Second Life--it just keeps spinning on. And now it's getting an official enterprise offshoot, which companies can run on their own server for virtual, corporate, uh, fun. There's even going to be ...READ»
Anthony Zuiker created CSI, generating more than $6 billion. But with his new cross-platform experiment, his killer instinct is really kicking in.READ»
If you should need any evidence that Dev Patnaik, the CEO and founder of Jump Associates, is marching to the beat of a different drummer, consider this: He teaches a popular Stanford University course called Needfinding.READ»
If you are looking for how to make money, I would tell you that there are a lot of ways to make money really. For instance you can make money with a video. I know of a company that would pay you to do a view review. Isn't that ...READ»
Though it might seem counter-intuitive, the Second Life Community Convention hosts a real-world meet-up for participants in SL’s virtual world. Grappling with issues like “how can virtual reality make us healthier?” and “real ...READ»
Event Announcement: Virtual art comes to Brooklyn August 7–23, 2009Exhibition: “Brooklyn is Watching Best of Year One: The Final Five”About The Event:Virtual art comes to Brooklyn. Inside the gallery are five ...READ»
Internet fads have proven to be short-lived, "jumping the shark" and falling from grace as swiftly as they rose. Twitter will prove to be the exception because of its one permanently-redeeming quality: simplicity.READ»
