Archive for March, 2007

Beta testing the new Second Life interface with voice support

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

I am beta testing the new Second Life interface with voice support. It is always interesting to see how a new element is being integrated within an existing interface in order to make sure that the overall architecture remains coherent. As you can see from the picture that I capturedwithin ...

RitaliaCamp: 31st march I will be there. And you?

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

RitaliaCamp: il 31 marzo io ci sarò. E tu? Ritalia, to rethink Italia.it, has been born from an online chat among friends. In a month it has become something interesting, stimulating, and groundbreaking. Today we are more than 200, with online collaboration tools, daily virtual meetings, and a persistend and active ...

Speaking about Second Life on Radio24

Monday, March 19th, 2007

Tonight I will be at Radio24, an Italian talk radio of nationwide coverage, to talk about Second Life at a special two hour episode of the Melog talkshow. The broadcast will be also streamed, and downloadable from the radio's website. I've also set up a skypecast, and a skypechat to ...

Is Freebase from Metaweb going to be what Cyc could have become? Shall the two merge?

Friday, March 9th, 2007

Freebase merges the bottom up approach of the social web, with the hierarchies of directories, and the orderliness of traditional relational databases to help 'organize the world's knowledge'. (If that sounds familiar, it is because that is what Google is blindly about, with algorithms that are striving to see with ...

Sony’s PlayStation Home validates, and pushes Second Life model

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

The blogosphere is abuzz (thanks, Massimo!) with the announcement at the Game Developers Conference of PlayStation Home, their take on shared online virtual worlds. Without having had the time to read about it enough, my guess is that the implementation will be flawless, the number of participants huge, the graphics ...

Speaking at the annual meeting of Aegis Media

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

I have been invited to speak at the 2007 Annual Meeting of Aegis Media, the media, communications, and market research group. The title of my talk is going to be "A New Life for Marketing in Virtual Worlds - What are you really promoting in Second Life", and as usual ...