I received a letter yesterday from Michael Robertson, a friend of mine and founder of MP3tunes. His company’s mission is to let people listen to their music wherever they want, and on any device they want. Recently EMI sued him, claiming that he was infringing EMI’s copyright by implementing the services that MP3tunes offers to […]
What is property, and who decides it? Is your music yours? Read More »
The birth of new social organizations in online-worlds is a great interest of mine, andI was delighted and honored when Michel Manen approached me to discuss the possibility of holding the inaugural lecture on Al-Andalus Caliphate, an innovative and vibrant multi-cultural community in Second Life. The title of my lecture is going to be “Tolerance
Holding the inaugural Ibn-Khaldun lecture on Al-Andalus Read More »
I will be streaming live from the OpenSpime Drinklink in four hours (8PM CET, 11AM PST) on the OpenSpime channel on Mogulus.
Streaming live in a few hours from the OpenSpime Drinklink Read More »
Do you want to experiment with spimes, have a first look at the preliminary OpenSpime architecture? Are you a hardware hacker, a maker, a mashup-wizard? Want to play with spimified Arduinos, SunSpots, iPhones, and more? Than come to Bastard.it for the OpenSpime Drink-Link! In a relaxed and friendly environment in design-crazed, fashion-full Milan, we will
Come to the OpenSpime Drink-Link @bastard.it! Read More »
photo by L*u*z*a* My friend Roo is going to moderate a panel today at the Virtual Worlds 2008 conference in New York on ‘Evolution of Games and Social Networks’, with people from Sony, Google, and Millions of Us on, and he said “What would you like me to ask them?“. Now you know my favorite
Online worlds vs. Social Networks Read More »
The mathematical field of game theory, explored by John Von Neumann in the ’40s, and broadened by John Nash in the late ’50s and beginning of the ’60s has been applied mainly to economics. To me it is interesting, because I view it as a discipline where the experimental subjects can, sometimes even must be
Nobel winning game theorists on change Read More »
