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Social networks for the real world
Society may have come full circle. For some, not a moment too soon. But while old-fashioned values like love thy neighbour might well be on the return, for those that remember those Halcyon days the first time around, there’s this barrier called the Internet to contend with…
As purely incidental as the comment was to the [...]
Mobile musical meme…
Music is that ephemeral, subjective, evocative and deeply emotional thing. Music can change a mood or mark a moment in your life. And right now, music is mobile. We can take our music with us and mark a moment through music wherever we choose to travel…
It was Ray Charles singing Eleanor Rigby by the Beatles. [...]
MMOGs make for iSociety
Virtual worlds like Second Life are doing pretty good, thank you very much! But while businesses appear to be leaving by one door, social networks could well be walking through another…
In my previous installment on MMOGs as venues for possible future business commerce, what might we need to see happen to make the businesses return?
I’m [...]
Second Life businesses on life support?
Wherever people gather in sufficient numbers, the unwritten rule is, there’s money to be made out of them. And so it goes that within the virtual world of Second Life, with enough people, the money should flow, right?
Currently, that’s not entirely been the case for those business currently in residence, though enough have tried to [...]
Will advertising ever not be annoying?
Eventually, the TV channels got smart. So when you walk out of the room during the adverts, they pumped up the volume. Why? So you can still hear the adverts while you’re in the kitchen making a cup of tea. It’s a power struggle – the advertisers and the channels are trying to poke the viewer in the eye as a way of curing our increasing ‘ad-blindness’, which is no cure at all…
