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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Al Gore is in Rome this Thursday for the launch of the Italian edition of Current, his television channel around user generated content, and I am among the dozen or two people invited to meet him for a couple of hours' conversation. The questions we are going to ...
I received a letter yesterday from Michael Robertson, a friend of mine and founder of MP3tunes. His company's mission is to let people listen to their music wherever they want, and on any device they want. Recently EMI sued him, claiming that he was infringing EMI's copyright by implementing the ...
The birth of new social organizations in online-worlds is a great interest of mine, andI was delighted and honored when Michel Manen approached me to discuss the possibility of holding the inaugural lecture on Al-Andalus Caliphate, an innovative and vibrant multi-cultural community in Second Life.
The title of my lecture is ...
