Archive for October, 2006

MIT launches Center for Collective Intelligence

MIT announced the launch of its new MIT launches Center for Collective Intelligence. The goal of the Center is: > [t]o understand how to harness the power of large numbers of people—connected together through Internet and other technologies —to better solve a range of business, scientific, and societal problems I think that is a fantastic [...]

October 13, 2006 • Posted in: Open Source, Wiki • No Comments

Viewing class from podium

Viewing class from podium Originally uploaded by donnagh. This is what a virtual class can look like! Tweet

Bransford presentation in Second Life

Dr. John Bransford gave a talk inside Second Life yesterday on Virtual Environments as ways to Reorganize Thinking about Research and Education. See also Rik’s post and pics and Jeremy’s transcript. Here is a PowerPoint presentation I put together with Jeremy’s pictures and Rik’s edited version of some of the comments – released under Creative [...]

Real World and Second Life interpenetrate

These are a few examples of mirroring, SL –> RL and RL –> SL. At first it is a mimicry and mirroring, but when we hook up the engines at either side, we will have greater experiences of seamless interpenetration. Avatar enters RL Walking and bicycling in SL Amazon integration in SL Web on a [...]

October 11, 2006 • Posted in: Second Life • No Comments

Lindens as Micropayments

This idea is not very new, but it looks like micropayments, especially (or necessarily) electronic ones, have a variety of advantages over traditional payment regimes. In these articles, we see that cellphone use in the Congo beats ATMs, piles of cash, or travel to distant banks. In There, WoW, and most prominently and openly encouraged, [...]

Testing the blogHUD from my backyard in Glenboon

posted by Donnagh McDonnagh on Glenboon using a blogHUD : [blogHUD permalink] Tweet

Particles without Images

< div> Met up with Ian Ball today, great to see a new friend in SL that my human hasn’t seen in RL in several years. In my backyard we were witnesses to some missing images… Tweet

Updates to FireFox Extensions page

Updates to the FireFox Extensions page now include updated links to a set of useful FireFox extensions and scripts. Tweet

October 1, 2006 • Posted in: Open Source, Web • No Comments