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We have added a second morning session at 11AM GMT+1 in English to the seminar next Tuesday, to accomodate the in-world availability of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society of the Harvard Law School, which will be kindly hosting it on Berkman Island in Second Life. Come and join us!
Berkman Center of Harvard Law School hosts my seminar in-world Read More »
Next tuesday, Jan 16 at 4PM I am speaking at the Crema Campus of the University of Milan about “Virtual Worlds, and Second Life: towards the Metaverse”. Come to chat, pick up one of the streams going to other campuses, or come back to see the recording once it has been uploaded. powered by performancing
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I was attending virtually attending CES in Las Vegas, and MacWorld in San Francisco simultaneously today, and greatly enjoyed the fantastic reporting from Engadget of Steve Jobs’ announcements. You could feel the excitement growing about the “three devices” (iPod, Phone, and Internet), which were really one. Then I said to myself, let’s drop a call
I just scored one through virtual conferencing! Read More »
Just in time for my seminar of Second Life next week at the University of Milan, there are new interesting analyses by Tristan Luis of the economy of the online world. Whether the more pessimistic or optimistic projections of user uptake are the valid ones at the end, and if really many or most users
New economic analysis on Second Life draws wrong mobile phone analogy Read More »
Ah yeah. MacWorld is on as well! So before I forget, here is the same list of pointers I had for Comdex, for MacWorld too: Blog posts Photos Videos Podcasts
Before I forget: virtual MacWorld Read More »
Around November time each year there is a flurry of emails from my contacts to ask “Are you at CES? If so, let’s hook up!” (It used to be September, and Comdex, but now Comdex is no more, and the pattern is the same with CES, and I can safely ignore all the car-audio, and
Virtually at CES 2007 Read More »
The founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, has had his space exploration company operating for some time, but very little was known about it, and the type of launch vehicle that it was developing. A few days ago the website of Blue Origin has had a major update, and posted images of its vertical take-off and
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Remembering the heroism of our space explorers – 1 Originally uploaded by david.orban. The space museum is closed. Not just closed, but in ruin, and abandon. Russia is a leader in the commercialization of its space infrastructure, as well as everything else it has, but in the meantime it forgot to keep an eye on
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Pirates’ market Originally uploaded by david.orban. Inside this market all types of software can be found on conveniently assembled CDs or DVDs. A typical price for a CD is 100 rubles ( about 4 dollars, or 3 euro), independently of the content. You can find the latest releases of Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2007,
Al Shugart, founder of Seagate Technology, the leading hard disk manufacturer, died yesterday at 76. Shugart invented the technology behind the hard disks, starting from a a capacity at that time unbelievable of 5 MB, and built starting from scratch the company that brought them with a constant evolution, to become the basis of our
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