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The Archives
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12.20.08ThinkBalm, the Immersive Internet and Collaborative CultureCo-creation: From Prims to Ideas A while back I was invited to something called the "ThinkBalm Innovation Community" and I suppose it was the word innovation: I'll even open spam if it uses the word, and if I ever get an e-mail from some Nigerian with $5 billion in a bank somewhere who needs my INNOVATIVE help in getting that money out, I'd probably respond. Turns out that ThinkBalm wasn't spam, of course, but a community of like-minded individuals with a passion for the immersive Web, a bank full of ideas, and the moxy to actually make stuff happen. Erica Driver is the ...
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07.21.08Wall Street Confirms: Real Life Will Never Be The SameOver on the op-ed pages of the Wall Street Journal, attorney and author Benjamin Duranske writes a quick summation and opinion piece on how the 3D Internet - virtual worlds (VWs) and 3D models - is quickly taking hold in day-to-day life, and will soon change the nature of human communications. Duranske opens his piece describing the recent "Ponzi scheme" that occurred in Second Life, which was followed by Linden Lab's banking ban, and how, despite the fact that people lost real money, there was no legal recourse for those who had been scammed. This is a small tipping point for ...
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