I am going to the Web2.0 Expo in Berlin. It is the first time that I participate in person in an O'Reilly conference, after having been an observer and commenter of the Web2.0 conferences, and am very much looking forward to it. The energy is apparent already!
Web2.0 eats its own ...
I will be speaking at the Virtual Worlds Forum in London.
"From e-tail to v-business: are virtual goods an entirely new category"
* What are virtual goods and how is the sector growing?
* Understanding the consumer motivation for virtual goods
* Is v-business the bright new shiny business model?
* Can you bridge the ...
I will be in New York on Monday and Tuesday, in San Diego on Wednesday, and in San Francisco until Monday. The week is pretty full, but if you are around New York on the 4th, or in San Francisco on the 7th, and want to have breakfast, let me ...
Image by David Trowbridge
This spring I joined the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI). After having followed Ray Kurzweil's, Eliezer Yudkowsky's, and Ben Goertzel's work for some time, it is my opinion that the institute that they are directing, together with Tyler Emerson, Bruce Klein, and others, is one of ...
I attended the speech given by Pete Worden at the International Space Development Conference, which was also held in Second Life on NASA's Colab islandMy question:Second Life is an inherently Global environment, is NASA taking this into due consideration, as it could draw on the input and expertise of a ...
The founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, has had his space exploration company operating for some time, but very little was known about it, and the type of launch vehicle that it was developing. A few days ago the website of Blue Origin has had a major update, and posted images ...
Remembering the heroism of our space explorers - 1
Originally uploaded by david.orban.
The space museum is closed. Not just closed, but in ruin, and abandon. Russia is a leader in the commercialization of its space infrastructure, as well as everything else it has, but in the meantime it forgot to keep ...
Pirates' market
Originally uploaded by david.orban.
Inside this market all types of software can be found on conveniently assembled CDs or DVDs. A typical price for a CD is 100 rubles ( about 4 dollars, or 3 euro), independently of the content. You can find the latest releases of Microsoft Windows Vista, ...
New apartment buildings
Originally uploaded by david.orban.
I am told these sell for five thousand dollars per square meter. No local with a normal job can afford them of course. Even if a lot of the local salaries come from unofficial sources. The real estate market with come back to earth, but ...
