At a recent panel discussion in Second Life, hosted by the US Department of State, experts from industry and the non-profit world pondered some fairly topica...
This slideshow accompanies a talk presented by Steve Wheeler at St. James School, Exeter, England, on 14 July, 2010 as part of the Vital Meet Workshop. (Web 3.0: The way forward?
A week before flamboyant Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom's arrest in New Zealand, a court in the United Kingdom passed judgement on an extradition case that was far less reported on, at least here in...
Can the game Second Life teach our children personal finance skills or earn us over $1million in US dollars?
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Last week vendors using the online marketplace for the popular MMO Second Life were treated to a number of takedown notices from Marvel Comics for offering avatars for sale that resembled characters from Marvel Comics.
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According to "TheBlack Box", which is the avatar name of a Second Life user, Google allowed him to keep his Google+ social network account named after that pseudonym.
Arch Tech Engine is a technology that transforms buildings, cities and geography into realtime 3D environments that are easily accessible, and can be embedded on your website, or deployed to a tablet.
ExtremeTechThe future of high-tech advertisingExtremeTechThe advertising of the future, then, will hinge entirely on new communication channels.
50 new tech tools you should knowCNN InternationalA new 3.0 update also offers LinkedIn integration for connecting with just one click. A must-have for conference-goers and business trippers.
Aiming to greatly enhance the intelligence and accuracy of search results, the Semantic Web will eschew the inaccurate keyword based searches of Web 2.0 and utilize comprehensive fields of information calledontologies, which will bind ...
Like a business program or start-up, it is meant to accelerate the successful development of 3D technology and virtual worlds for the Fashion designers. The goal is to provide the stylists with 3D design, virtual simulation and ...
Like any other technology, the web is evolving and it is evolving rather quickly. Due to lack of standards, there seems to be a little bewilderment regarding its evolution and versions but the most acceptable stages of evolution ...
In July 2010, the departments of Homeland Security and State kicked off an initiative that provides training to federal cybersecurity professionals from 55 offices and agencies.
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Dr. Tony O'Driscoll describes the 7 Sensibilities that Differentiate Virtual Social Worlds from other interactive media and makes the argument that these sen...
Virtual Real Estate Investing (VRE) is a very clever way to make money online dealing with domain name investing. Very small investment with HUGE...
“Web 3.0": for those of you who might have been sleeping during your Internet History classes, this third generation of the Web is one which expands upon the linkages, accessibility and collaboration enabled by Web 2.0 technologies such as social media and content-management systems. Web 3.0 extends the idea of a more open internet by seeking to fundamentally change the way the internet is coded and data is represented. The idea is that if its possible to standardize the way content is organized on the web into a family of categories, then those categories themselves will have basic meaning to other sites and applications that might be accessing that data. Full Post: http://splatworld.tv/sitegeist/a-web-3-0-primer-on-the-semantic-web.htm
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Arch Virtual announces the launch of "Virtual Dubuque," a web-based 3D virtual simulation of Dubuque, Iowa. It's a new way for local businesses, government and services to present information to the public using virtual technologies.
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The Virtual World 'HyberGrid' at ThreeInternet EvolutionIt was a huge achievement -- similar to Tim Berners-Lee inventing the World Wide Web.
You don't need an SL/OS client to view them, and though they use Unity 3D to display, now you don't even need to download a Unity plug-in, because the latest version of Flash (standard to nearly all web browsers) has Unity's display code built in.
The report points out a now well understood concept by the geekiest amongst us, the "Internet of Things". Marissa Mayer, Google's Vice President of Location and Local Services, back in ...
Using new technology viewers are able to get an 180 degree view of the streets of Tokyo through video.
#HIE education in virtual worlds. Building community around patient centered information management. Collaborate!
Chris Lamb has written an article discussing how semantic web technology is helping with the problem of too much news, not enough meaning.
Association of Virtual Worlds Report * Top Stories * News * Views * Trends * Solutions ... Author: E.M. Kaye, Founder, Association of Virtual Worlds Category: Consumers, Enterprise, HEADLINES, Marketing, Sales, Trends, ...
Facebook is poised to dominate the next iteration of the web (commonly referred to as web 3.0 or the semantic web) in the same way, and for the same reasons that Google dominated web 2.0.
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