As in all democracies, the right to vote in elections is a fundamental one in the United States Of America as well. However, contrary to other countries with a more centralized approach, the rules for exercising this right in the USA are incredibly complicated, and cumbersome to follow. First of all, you have to be […]
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Here is the live blog of the second day of the Virtual Worlds Expo in Los Angeles, starting at 9AM PST. (Please note that the live blog is via a plugin from Coveritlive, and you won’t be getting the text of it if you receive my posts via email. You have to watch it over
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I am packing to leave for the Virtual Worlds Conference & Expo, where kindly invited by my friend Roo, I will be speaking on the Augmented Reality panel in the Future Track. For the panel I will express two concepts: The realities are augmented by our knowledge, and we traverse them via our agent identities.
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Heh, I don’t know if that title makes sense, so let me unpack it a little… I will be going to the iSummit conference in Sapporo, Japan, where I’ve been invited to coordinate the Second Life version of the event. We will be streaming the keynotes of the speakers physically present in Sapporo. Jimmy Wales,
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Turning your vision into reality is a big leap. Going from zero to one represents a Zenoan step, which is not guaranteed to be possible, in the world of mathematical abstractions or in the world of physical action. So it is a wonderful feeling that OpenSpime is actually making this leap. If not to 1.0,
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Marco ‘Funkyprofessor’ Zamperini has been kind enough to invite me to talk to the top management and the board of Value Team about ‘The Open Internet Of Things‘, which will also obviously touch upon OpenSpime. It is nice that they said “We know how you always record your speeches, so you will be pleased to
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What web browser do you use? How much time to you spend in front of it per week? It is your window on the online world, it is what you use to see the web, compose an email on an online mail service, watch videos, listen to music, find photos, and more and more every
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(Photo by Nasa, uploaded on Flickr by Jurvetson. See a high resolution version too!) The Phoenix interplanetary exploration vehicle landed on Mars. My name, David Orban, is on it, together with those of the other members* of Planetary Society. This is of course a rather indirect way of being on Mars, but for the moment
I am on Mars! …or, what’s in a name? Read More »
The migration of our lives into the Cloud has accelerated lately, and it is not at all to the detriment of our physical experiences. We need simplicity, in order to face a complex world, and certainly to me this world appears to getting really complex. The unified access to what concerns us, what interests us,
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