17th Aug 2008
Excellent interview with Mark Pesce, revolving around the effects of Hyperconnectivity (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, WikiPedia, etc.)
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13th May 2006
My vivacious new friend M (hey!) was IM’ing to me this week about second life. She meant the general idea of being online, being in chatting mode, and feeling detached from the real world. Face to Face as First Life, online as Second. I had asked her if she had heard of “Second Life”, as in Second Life from Linden Labs
I’ve wrapped up with Friendster, and am about to start a contract doing stuff with Second Life. In other words, my First Life (at least, the work bit) is changing, and I’ll be surrounded by Second Life, the work, and Second Life, the virtual world. Got that?
I’m looking forward to it. Check out the BusinessWeek cover story “My Virtual Life” which gives a good sense of what it’s like to wander in off the web, and into a much more immersive environment. The whole idea of how we ping pong between modes is changing quickly. At this point, many are happy to get the web on their mobile phone, but because of the way that feels, it’s not really convincing “being somewhere else” stuff. What happens in, say, five years when you get realtime photorealistic rendering on an ultra portable wireless device (less than a pound, 8″ screen, insert favorite specs here)? (btw, I am expressing a desire, and don’t know of anyone that’s doing anything that advanced) In other words, will First and Second lives start to blur a bit? Maybe they already have.
It’s going to be fun.
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30th Jan 2006
In the past few years, I hadn’t paid a lot of attention to social networking sites. Perhaps it was the idea of filling out a profile with the same info over and over. Maybe I wasn’t being sociable. It could be that I had so much going on with the web sites I already check out. I do use Flickr and deli.cio.us (and I see the feeds from slashdot and digg)
But I’m about to set foot in that world on a professional level, so I’m going immersive … I’m on a few of the betas out there (such as wink and newsvine).
So, a question: What are your favorite Social Networking/Bookmarking/etc sites?
