http://www.nokiausa.com/A4410964
http://gisuser.blogspot.com/2007/08/8gb-nokia-n95-gps-loads-of-memory-now.html
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Thursday, 30 August 2007
New 8GB Nokia N95 has GPS and Games !
The Virtual Office
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=3530142
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New Serious Games Directory Site
http://www.supersmartgames.com/
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Wednesday, 29 August 2007
New MMO IPTV Network
http://www.totalmmo.com/
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WILL Interactive CEO Sharon Sloane talks about the "serious games" her company uses
American.com talks to Sharon Sloane, the President and CEO of WILL Interactive. The company is a leading maker of "serious games." One product is a playable simulation of a U.S. Army artillery unit in Iraq--choose your own adventure for grown-ups.
http://seriousgames.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=630751%3ATopic%3A8922
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Greece Fires in Google Earth
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2007/08/greece_fires_in_goog.html
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Not a Game: Simulation to Lessen War Trauma
By repeatedly encountering sights, sounds, smells and rumblings that evoke painful memories, experts say, veterans with the disorder can begin to reprocess traumatic events and become desensitized to them, perhaps suffering fewer side effects like insomnia, nightmares and flashbacks.
The simulation is available to a small number of patients at sites including the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Manhattan, the Naval Medical Center in San Diego, the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta and Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington.
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News From The Second Life Community Convention
http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2007/08/blogging-the-sl.html
http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2007/08/blogging-the--1.html
http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2007/08/blogging-the--2.html
http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2007/08/blogging-the--3.html
http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2007/08/blogging-the--4.html
http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2007/08/blogging-the--5.html
http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2007/08/blogging-the--6.html
http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2007/08/blogging-the--7.html
http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2007/08/blogging-the--8.html
http://blogs.electricsheepcompany.com/joel/?p=47
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Want to Make Money in Second Life? It's Harder Than You Think
Making money by starting a business in the virtual world known as "Second Life" has been touted as an economic wave of the future.
But for the moment at least, pulling it off isn't exactly a reality.
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"Second Life" entrepreneurs looking to strike it rich or just make a few extra dollars face a daunting combination of both the traditional problems faced by any small business owner in the "first" world plus new challenges unique to the youthful, Internet-based economy of "Second Life."
These entrepreneurs sell everything from virtual clothes and virtual art to virtual house furniture and virtual tattoos. But stories like that of Anshe Chung -- "Second Life's" first real-life millionaire, who made her money selling land -- are rarities.
Only 145 people made more than $5,000 as "Second Life" entrepreneurs in July; 865 people made at least $1,000. With about 450,000 users logging on each month, such numbers mean that for all the press hype, only a very small fraction of the population is making any significant amount of money within the Second Life world.
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Tuesday, 28 August 2007
Robert Scoble Talks about the future of search engines - social graph search
Click on the bar at the bottom of the video window to view all 3 parts.
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Intellagirl on Future of Second Life (SLCC 2007)
Sarah Robbins, ever effervescent Intellagirl, revved up the energy at SLCC 207 with her session on a A Futurist’s View of Second Life Education. She presenter her own matrix framework for looking at the attributes of virtual worlds and plotted were we are at… and encouraged educators to help drive where it will go.
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Monday, 27 August 2007
Could 3D GPS Enable Game-like Situated Learning?
GPS (the Global Positioning System) uses satellites to help users to navigate, with accuracy as good as half a metre or so. But while most of us are happy to have a simple 2D or “tilted” fake 3D GPS display to guide us, Asia is developing GPS systems that look more like first-person video games:
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Alexander Hayes on M-Learning
Presentation by Alexander Hayes at the CIT National TAFE Conference in Canberra, Australia on September 5 - 7, 2007.
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Microblogging: Tiny social objects. On the future of participatory media
Great Jaiku presentation on social networking and microblogging:
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Friday, 24 August 2007
Q & A: Susan Wu on Dichotomous Worlds
"The distinction between what Facebook and an MMO looks like is going to disappear," Wu says. "All social interaction online will be driven by game mechanics. My goal in doing these conferences and blogging about this subject and trying to find companies to invest in is, how do I bring these two segregated universes together? There are all these Web 2.0 conferences, and Web entrepreneurs basically talking amongst themselves in this insular environment, and I see the same thing in the gaming industry, which has always been a cottage industry and very segregated. I see so many different parallels going on in these two communities, and my goal is to bring them more closely together."
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The cellphone will eventually revolutionalise learning
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Thursday, 23 August 2007
Last weekend at PodCamp Pittsburgh 2 a new internet term was coined, “Bacn”.
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15 Things You Should Know About vSide, The New 3D Facebook
http://metaversed.com/22-aug-2007/15-things-you-should-know-about-vside-new-3d-facebook
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New Photo Viewer with Gigapixel Layer in Google Earth
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2007/08/new_photo_viewer_wit.html
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Explore the sky with Google Earth
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Five Rules For Bringing Your Real-Life Business Into Second Life
If you're thinking about establishing yourself in Second Life -- or are wondering whether you should -- we've got five rules that will help your new venture be a success.
Second Life is one of the most controversial technologies to hit the Internet. Praised last year as a platform that would turn the net upside down, this year it's being dismissed as an overhyped fraud and a waste of time and money.
The truth is somewhere in between last year's hype and this year's backlash. Second Life is revolutionary, but the revolution will take a few years to play out. For now, the virtual world is rough around the edges, and at times very difficult to use.
Nonetheless, you can get a lot out of bringing your real life business into Second Life. You can use Second Life for effective marketing, building relationships with customers and partners, and creating business value.
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Embed Video In Google Earth 4.2 Placemarks!
One of the most-requested long-awaited features for Google Earth has arrived* with version 4.2 (download the latest GE here): You can now embed YouTube videos in placemark descriptions!
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Wednesday, 22 August 2007
Kevin Rose returns to London with FOWA and Diggnation LIVE - October 3rd
http://www.futureofwebapps.com/
http://www.revision3.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8821
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Virtual game is a 'disease model'
An outbreak of a deadly disease in a virtual world can offer insights into real life epidemics, scientists suggest.
The "corrupted blood" disease spread rapidly within the popular online World of Warcraft game, killing off thousands of players in an uncontrolled plague.
The infection raged, wreaking social chaos, despite quarantine measures.
The experience provides essential clues to how people behave in such crises, Lancet Infectious Diseases reports.
In the game, there was a real diversity of response from the players to the threat of infection, similar to those seen in real life.
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Hezbollah releases video game
"Special Force 2" is based on last year's 34-day conflict between the Lebanese guerrilla group and Israel.
"This game presents the culture of the resistance to children: that occupation must be resisted and that land and the nation must be guarded," Hezbollah media official Sheikh Ali Daher said.
But Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev responded by saying: ''It should come as a surprise to no one that Hezbollah teaches children that hatred and violence are positive attributes.''
Designed by Hezbollah computer experts, players of "Special Force 2" take the role of a Hezbollah fighter, or Mujahid. Weapons and points are accumulated by killing Israeli soldiers.
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Real time traffic updates in Google earth
We've had traffic updates available in Google maps for some time, however, the Google Lat/Long blog has informed us that real-time traffic reports are now available for viewing in Google Earth.. nice! Simply enable teh traffic layer and view updates... pretty simple.
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Tutorial - Create a Google MyMap, add your flickr photos from a Mapplet, then embed in your website
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Money Trouble in Second Life
Bank run: Concerned about Second Life’s economy, avatars are lining up to withdraw money from a Ginko Financial automatic-teller machine.
There's a long line of avatars waiting to use the automatic-teller machines for Ginko Financial, a virtual bank in the online game Second Life. For more than a week, account holders have been demanding their money back in what some folks are calling a bank run.
Set off by high interest rates and a recent ban on in-game gambling, the bank run could ultimately have a major effect on the game's economy. The theft of approximately $12,000 from the Second Life World Stock Exchange doesn't help matters either.
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Dr Who talks about similarities between web 1.0 and web 3D
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Tuesday, 21 August 2007
Just announced: Virtual Worlds Forum Europe 2007
As a special benefit to delegates, we’ve negotiated two very special deals: each registered delegate gets
* a complimentary copy of Forrester Research’s “The Real Business of Virtual Worlds”
* a four day member pass at The Hospital private members’ club; when you’re not at the conference, relax, network, have a drink
http://virtualworldsforum.com/
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Humanitarian Issues in Google Earth - Central African Republic
Another humanitarian organization has turned to Google Earth to help visualize conditions in another African country. This time it is the Central African Republic (CAR) which is adjacent to the violent and serious situation in the Darfur region of Sudan. The northern part of CAR also has many related humanitarian issues with refugees, violence, death, displaced people, crime, and sickness.
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