Archive for October, 2006

Connect, Collaborate, Co-Create
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

”We think the reason is that Second Life is perceived as having moved from being a game to a virtual development platform. This is what we thought the internet was going to be 10-15 years ago – a collaborative space that’s both social and creative. Broadband has been longing for its killer application in the [...]

In Praise of Danah Boyd
Sunday, October 29th, 2006

It was a pleasant surprise this weekend to open up the FT and find Graham Bowley’s piece on social networking services (SNS). While much has been written about SNS providers such as MySpace, Facebook and YouTube no MSM coverage todate has really joined up the dots like Grahams piece. In particular it was great to [...]

Yahoo Time Capsule
Saturday, October 28th, 2006

I swung by the Yahoo Time Capsule project yesterday evening to have a look. It was the strangest feeling walking towards the capsule. Watching the user-summited digital text, audio, pictures, video and other media swirl around was hypnotic. As you can see from the snapshot there was a good crowd present. When Destroy Television turned [...]