January 2008
Computer network
Computer network From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search This article may be too long. Please discuss this issue on the talk page and help summarize or split the content into subarticles of an article series. A computer network is an interconnection of a group of computers. Networks may be classified by what is called the network layer at...
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locative+performative June 22, 2007 · Filed under graffiti, mobile 01_TXTualhealing-Paul Notzold An SMS Enabled Interactive Street Performance, were participants can text each other or simply post a message on projected bubbles. more… this is also Paul’s me and my mobile class blog at Parsons 02_ Simple Text by Jonah Brucker-Cohen, SimpleTEXT is a...
Locative art
Locative art From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Locative art is art which uses location-based media such GPS or Wi-Fi as its medium. It is a sub-category of interactive art or new media art, which explores the relationships between the real world and the virtual or between people, places or objects in the real world. [edit] Locative art in...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locative_mediaLocative media From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Locative Media are media of communication bound to a location. They are digital media applied to real places and thus triggering real social interactions. While mobile technologies such as the Global Positioning System (GPS), laptop computers and...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_urban_studies_topicsList of urban studies topics From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Urban Studies is the scientific discipline that studies all aspects of cities, their suburbs, and other urban areas. This includes urban economics, urban planning, urban architecture, urban ecology, urban transportation...
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Monday, January 28, 2008 Archidemo: Tokyo Metropolitan University in Second Life We have just recieved a email from Hidenori Watanave, Associate professor of Tokyo Metropolitan University about his groups “Archidemo” project in Second Life. “Archidemo” consists of experimental demonstration and research into the possibility of architecture and environmental design in...
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http://rayschroeder.googlepages.com/Recent Presentations Digital by Design Online Blending for Quality and Access Beyond Google & Yahoo: Search Engine Alternatives Web 2.0: When Will We Ever Get There? Higher Ed on Second Life: Fall 2007 Snapshot Quality Online Web 2.0 Sampler Semester without End FSI - Faculty Summer Institute Web 2.0 Journalism News Daily...
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20 November, 2007 Second Life’s Virtual Potential is Real Ian Lamont, ComputerWorld’s Senior Editor New Media, wrote on the potential of Second Life. “I’ve been a Second Lifer for a year. I’ve had many of the same problems, experienced some of the same fears, and have repeatedly slammed the relentless hype about the virtual world and the activities there. But...
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Augmentalists vs Immersionalists. Which one are you? January 31st, 2008 by Nic Mitham The SL Reuters website has picked up on a recent research project initiated by the US Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee. The research, conducted by Zogby International asked 3,585 adults questions relating to attitudes towards technology. The particular question understandably...
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2007 Many thanks to everyone who nominated for this years awards. We’ll be releasing all nominations via del.icio.us shortly, so you can check out all the fantastic entries that didn’t make this years shortlist. In the meantime - congratulations to all our finalists! Voting is currently open, so what are you waiting for? 1. Best individual blog 2. Best group blog 3. Best new blog 4....
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Second Life as a presentation platform Posted by Sean FitzGerald on November 27, 2007 (Image by Jo Kay) This post documents the process I went through in exploring a better way of presenting about Second Life (and other virtual worlds) using Second Life as a presentation platform. The dilemma (Image by Jo Kay) For over a year now, Jo Kay and I have been exploring virtual worlds, in...
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« links for 2008-01-30 Second Life as a Platform for Augmented Reality Posted by Sean FitzGerald on January 31, 2008 I’m not in the habit of posting videos to my blog that are posted elsewhere on the Net. I usually just bookmark them in del.icio.us and let them post automatically to my daily link blog. But this one demonstrating the use of Second Life as a platform for...
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Who put that avatar in the bath? January 24th, 2008 Like many who spend time in Second Life I have virtual friends, virtual business partners and at least one virtual lover. These people live in Europe and the US and are walled off from my real life friends and business partners. That wall has a new crack in it. New World Notes reports on a brilliant piece of development...
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http://www.endemolvirtual.nl/blog/ Endemol Virtual Youtube Channel Google Earth Google Maps Massively Official Linden Blog Official Second Life website Second Life Pictures Seeriously WeblogHolographic images posted on 17/12/2007 A couple of pretty cool holographic effects. Diesel ‘Liquid Space’ Holographic Fashion Show Kate Moss Hologram - Alexander McQueen Fashion Show
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/visions-future.shtml VISIONS OF THE FUTURE Repeats start Monday 28 January 2008 In this new three-part series, leading theoretical physicist and futurist Dr Michio Kaku explores the cutting edge science of today, tomorrow, and beyond. He argues that humankind is at a turning point in history. In this century, we are going to make...
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NMC Unveils the All New Kirsti Aho Museum reported by CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) January 24th, 2008 Last Sunday was a private launch for the re-opening of the Kirsti Aho Art Museum on NMC Campus. The Aho Museum aspires to showcase the finest examples of art that can be found in Second Life. The resources of the museum include the museum and the gardens surrounding...
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Ray Kurzweil on virtual reality, augmented reality, and Second Life Recently in Computerworld, I had a very interesting interview with Ray Kurzweil on some of the issues he discussed in The Singularity Is Near. Portions of the interview appeared in the print issue (see The Grill: Ray Kurzweil talks about ‘augmented reality’ and the Singularity), but I also...
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See our latest Trend Map! What to expect in 2008 and beyond…. Nowandnext.com and Future Exploration Network have once again collaborated to create a trend map for 2008 and beyond. Our Trend Map for 2007+ had a major impact, with over 40,000 downloads, fantastic feedback (“The World’s Best Trend Map. Ever.” “I got shivers” “Amazing” “Fascinating” “Magnifique” etc. etc.), and inspired several...
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Posted in Virtual worlds, metaverse. Tags: 3D, metaverse, scenecaster, Second Life, Virtual worlds. No Comments » Geeks in Life: Second Skin Trailer January 31, 2008 — dusanwriter A new documentary explores identity, love, addiction, and life in virtual worlds. Two years in the making, Second Skin has released a trailer and if its production values and neutral stance are any...
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http://eightbar.co.uk/ Augmented Reality head on a platter January 25th, 2008 Artag has come up again recently in a few posts. I was just getting an older webcam working my laptop so I used Artag to see if it was working ok and did this little render test. In this case with a head model of me generated by cyberextruder from a 2d photo. It looses registration a bit but as I...
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http://eightbar.co.uk/ Rare audio of both metaverse evangelists on Voices in Business January 30th, 2008 Roo and I did a podcast the other day. It is a rare thing for us both to be recorded at the same time. You can listen to it here on Mike O’Hara’s Voicesinbusiness blog. Just in case you cant tell the difference Roo is the posh sounding one and I am the slightly less posh...
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Metaverse U, February 16-17 at Stanford Posted Monday, January 28th, 2008, at 11:18 pm Eastern by Mark WallaceTags: 3pointD, augmented reality, events, lifelogging, metaverse, virtual worlds I’ll be out in California for a few days in mid-February, mostly for the Metaverse U. event that’s being held at Stanford. This is a spin-off or evolution...
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The Agenda is up Wed, 01/30/2008 - 17:33 — Henrik Bennetsen With the final confirmations just rolling in our scheduled program for Metaverse U is now live. I am looking at two pretty full days with a lot of hope for an interesting event. Our list of speakers have turned out pretty well I think and I am looking forward to the thoughts they will provoke. Not one has been asked to...
http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/machinima/projects.html
http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/machinima/projects.htmlOngoing ProjectsSecond Life Augmented Reality (website)Blair MacIntyre, Michael Nitsche, Jay Bolter, Kathryn Farley By connecting an Augmented Reality interface to the massive multiplayer online world of Second Life we create a new mixed media platform for machinima. Physical and virtual world can affect each other and and blend into a new form of...
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http://gvu.cc.gatech.edu/ii/ The Information Interfaces Group, an HCI research group in the GVU Center at Georgia Tech, develops computing technologies that help people take advantage of information to enrich their lives. More about the lab approach Jigsaw Using visualization and visual analytics to help intelligence analysis and...
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http://gtmachinimablog.lcc.gatech.edu/a little puppet play in DresdenPosted by fiezi I will be performing a live-digital puppet theater/machinima/animation as final project for my artist-in residence grant in Dresden. All camera, editing, animation and sound/music will be performed live using Gametrak Controllers and a custom made Mocap-jacket as input devices for the puppeteering and maybe some...
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http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2007/07/the-long-tail-o.htmlMonday, July 30, 2007 WIRED AND THE LONG TAIL OF SECOND LIFE MARKETING (Updated) Update, 7/31: Chris has a reply to this post (and quotes my rejoinders) at his blog here. Last Friday I contacted Wired Magazine editor-in-chief Chris Anderson about my critique of Frank Rose’s article on failed marketing in Second Life, to get his...
http://arsecondlife.gvu.gatech.edu/
http://arsecondlife.gvu.gatech.edu/ Welcome to the AR Second Life Website Massively Multiplayer Online Worlds (MMO) are persistent virtual environments where people play, experiment and socially interact. In this research project, we demonstrate that MMOs also provide a powerful platform for Augmented Reality (AR) applications. We introduce the notion of AR Stages,...
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Monday, January 14, 2008 « Women Rule: *L Word* in Second Life Wins Emmy, Contract Extension; *Gossip Girls* in SL Boasts 38K Monthly Uniques | Main | Keep the Second Life Predictions Coming! » Georgia Tech Grad Adds Augmented Reality Feature to Second Life’s Open Source Client How about a first-person shooter that you can play in the real world, or a filmmaker’s...
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http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/02/20/augmented-virtual-reality/Augmented Virtual Reality Tuesday, February 20th, 2007 at 9:20 AM PST by: babbagelinden At a very interesting session at Euro FOO last year on using Second Life in real life, Claus Dahl commented that Second Life is potentially a great platform for prototyping networked augmented reality applications. Everything...
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http://www.lostbiro.com/blog/?page_id=791SecondLife: Navigating realities Posted by jerry on May 30th, 2007 — Posted in Journal This is essentially a paper I presented at the Crossing Cultures conference at ANU in 1998, with some minor updating to reflect more recent developments in virtual space. What do we think of when we encounter the concept of ‘Virtual Reality’? Perhaps we have visions of...
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http://www.virtualworldlets.net/Resources/Hosted/Resource.php?Name=ARHumanBeast Augmented Reality is basically divided into two sections: You have the sensor web, an interconnected mesh of wireless, wired, and sensor networks, ubiquitous to the environment, constantly communicating with one another - a mesh of tiny connections blanketing every aspect of civilisation. Image courtesy...
Graphics processing unit
Graphics processing unit From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search “GPU” redirects here. For other uses, see GPU (disambiguation). “VPU” redirects here. For the university in Lithuania, see Vilnius Pedagogical University. A graphics processing unit or GPU (also occasionally called visual processing unit or VPU) is a dedicated...
Mobile Computing Power
by Kevin Bonsor Inside This Article 1. Introduction to How Augmented Reality Will Work 2. Augmenting Our World 3. Head-mounted Displays 4. Tracking and Orientation 5. Mobile Computing Power 6. ...
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http://www.dailywireless.org/ Golden Anniversary for Explorer 1 Posted by samc on January 31st, 2008 Fifty years ago today, the United States successfully launched its first satellite, Explorer 1. The launch on January 31, 1958 was its first (successful) response after Russia successfully launched two satellites. The three men given most credit for its success are...
Wireless LAN
Wireless LAN From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia’s quality standards. Please improve this article if you can. (December 2007) “WLAN” redirects here. For other uses, see WLAN (disambiguation). The notebook is connected to the wireless access point using a PC card...
Mobile virtual network operator
Mobile virtual network operator From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from MVNO) Jump to: navigation, search A Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) is a company that provides mobile phone service but does not have its own frequency allocation of the radio spectrum, nor does it have all of the infrastructure required to provide mobile telephone service.[1] A...
Comparison of mobile phone standards
Comparison of mobile phone standards From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (August 2007) Global System for Mobile Communications (AKA GSM, around 80–85 % market share)...
List of telephone operating companies
List of mobile network operators
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mobile_network_operatorsList of mobile network operators From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search This is a list of mobile phone network operating companies. For a more comprehensive list (UMTS and GSM operators only), see Mobile Network Code. [edit] Terrestrial These are the world’s largest mobile...
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http://www.micropersuasion.com/ http://twitter100.com/slurllinks for 2008-01-31 Search And Destroy: How To Discover Secret Gadgets Through the FCC (tags: Gadgets Search CitizenJournalism) twitter100 Track 100 Twitter followers at a glance. (tags: twitter visualization Mashups) Stranded at the airport? Don’t forget Rule 240 - TODAY: Travel - MSNBC.com (tags:...
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http://www.buzzmachine.com/ Davos08: Me and my DNA January 28th, 2008 23andMe, the DNA company, offered free tests to 1,000 of the Davosati, unlocking our DNA for each of us, telling us about certain genetic propensities, identifying our heritage, and opening up a new social network of the gene. We went to a booth in the fancy party hotel and spit — and spit and spit and...
hyperlocal
Local news help by expanding it. In journalism, local news refers to news coverage of events in a local context which would not normally be of interest to those of other localities, or otherwise be of national or international scope. [edit] Hyperlocal The term “hyperlocal” is sometimes used to refer to news coverage of community-level events usually overlooked by mainstream media...
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http://www.commoncraft.com/ Most Viewed Video: RSS in Plain English (280697) Video: Wikis in Plain English (119427) Video: Social Bookmarking in Plain English (61780) Video: Social Networking in Plain English (50910) What are the Differences Between Message Boards and Weblogs? (48280)
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Semantic Web
Semantic Web From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search W3C’s Semantic Web logo The Semantic Web is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which web content can be expressed not only in natural language, but also in a format that can be read and used by software agents, thus permitting them to find, share and integrate information...
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http://mashable.com/2007/07/07/google-vs-everyone/Google vs Everyone: 10 Markets Where Google Wants to Win July 7, 2007 — by Adam Ostrow — Google is the 600-pound gorilla: the company that no one wants to see build a competing product. Google dominates many of the markets it enters, whether by building a superior product or acquiring one. But Google isn’t perfect: in some areas, they come...
Social network
Social network From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Not to be confused with social network services such as MySpace, etc. or virtual community A social network is a social structure made of nodes (which are generally individuals or organizations) that are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as values, visions, idea,...