http://impl.emented.com — tracking the Web Fri, 02 Apr 2010 09:12:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://impl.emented.com/2008/06/03/virtual-worlds-are-hot-with-companies-again/ http://impl.emented.com/2008/06/03/virtual-worlds-are-hot-with-companies-again/#comments Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:51:57 +0000 Jonas Bolinder http://impl.emented.com/?p=35 A few interesting posts this week (May 26 - June 1 2008):

• A year ago there was much buzz about companies and public institutions embracing virtual worlds like Second Life, but since then the interest has declined and this year has been really quiet, until now perhaps. ReadWriteWeb refers to an article by Alana Semuels of the Los Angeles Times, who writes about several companies who regularly use private islands in Second Life for meetings and conferences, and entrepreneurs that build virtual conference facilities. The social behaviour of avatars is also getting more controlled and uniform, though some excessiveness still occurs. As she writes: "Just like social culture in the real world, it evolves."
  Tags: virtual worlds
• The useful and free Windows system tools from Sysinternals are now available online, as reported by Ed Bott.
  Tags: tools, Windows
• The browser extension Google Gears turns one and is rebranded as Gears, writes ReadWriteWeb. Gears gives developers early access to future web standards proposed in for example HTML 5, as I wrote in a previous highlight about Gears.
  Tags: Gears
• Alex Iskold has another useful post, this time about the lightweight semantic markup techniques microformats, eRDF and RDFa, where the latter, RDFa, is the most capable, but also the most complex in terms of implementation. Further, he gives some background to the Yahoo! SearchMonkey initiative, which is a way to encourage publishers to add semantic markup to their pages. See also my previous highlight about Yahoo semantic search.
  Tags: Semantic Web, Yahoo
• Finally, there was the discussion about comment ownership that I wrote a separate post about.
  Tags: comments

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• Trendrr Makes Data Mashups A Breeze – Josh Catone
  Trendrr, a potentially useful service for tracking and graphing data. Comes with an API.
  Tags: graphing
• Scalr: The Auto-Scaling Open-Source Amazon EC2 Effort – Henry Work
  An open source initiative for managing Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service.
  Tags: cloud computing, open source
• Google Gears, a Software Update for the Web – Ionut Alex Chitu
  An embedded Google TechTalk video about what's new with Google Gears - "An open-source mechanism for updating the Web." HTML 5 and Gears have a lot in common.
  Tags: Google Gears
• Europe-Focused Blog Search Engine Twingly Goes Into Private Beta – Michael Arrington
  A Sweden-based blog search engine.
  Tags: blog search
• How to Disagree – Paul Graham
  A disagreement hierarchy in 7 levels: DH0. Name-calling DH1. Ad Hominem DH2. Responding to Tone DH3. Contradiction DH4. Counterargument DH5. Refutation DH6. Refuting the Central Point
  Tags: blogging
• Not Your Ordinary Google Interface – Ionut Alex Chitu
  The Google interface in unusual languages, including "Bork, bork, bork!", the language of my favourite Muppet Show character: The Swedish Chef.
  Tags: humor

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