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 [...]
Archive for January 8th, 2007
New economic analysis on Second Life draws wrong mobile phone analogy
January 8th, 2007
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Before I forget: virtual MacWorld
January 8th, 2007
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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
Virtually at CES 2007
January 8th, 2007
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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 [...]
Fifty Years of Europe
January 8th, 2007
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Bruce Sterling points to a nice article in the Guardian about the latest round of enlargement of the European Union, and observes: “It’s worth pointing out that nobody’s ever clamored to join an empire before. Yeah, that’s pretty weird behavior for an organization that’s supposed to be dull.“ I have been talking about this with [...]
