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Live blogging from the Virtual Worlds Expo - Day 2

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

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 ...

Live blogging from the Virtual Worlds Expo in Los Angeles

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Here it is, in real time...

Augmented Reality at the Virtual Worlds Conference & Expo

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

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 ...

With Jimmy Wales in Second Life at iSummit in Sapporo, Japan

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

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 ...

OpenSpime Developer Network and .org launch today

Monday, June 16th, 2008

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 ...

Talking about ‘The Open Internet Of Things’ at Value Team

Friday, June 6th, 2008

 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 ...

Your window on the online world - using Firefox 3

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

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, ...

I am on Mars! …or, what’s in a name?

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

(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, ...

Living In The Cloud

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

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 ...

On becoming vegan: five good reasons

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

A few days ago I've become a vegan. Vegans are those who do not eat meat like vegetarians, and also eschew animal products, like milk, cheese, eggs. When I tell people they laugh. I laugh as well, since I am a jovial person. But I am pretty serious. Here are five ...