Links for Tuesday, July 18, 2006
- Phillip Linden: Linden Dollar Economy Announcement – “Stability of the L$ economy reduces pricing problems for creators and consumers of in-world content.“
- Jonathan Schwartz: The Rise of the General Purpose System – “I’d like to personally apologize to all those poor UPS, DHL and FedEx drivers….”
- SimTeach: Information and Community for Educators using M.U.V.E.’s – Multi-User Virtual Environments.
- Greg Linden: Starting Findory: In the Beginning – “I believed in the value of applying personalization to information. I wanted to see it happen. While I thought it was inevitable that everyone will be doing personalization of information over the next 5-10 years, I wanted to see it sooner. I started Findory to make it happen..”
- New Porsche All-Wheel Drive 911 Targa – Time for an upgrade?
- Eric Rice: Home run kings: MLB, ESPN, Second Life, & The Electric Sheep – ““Tonight, a bunch of friends and I went to a baseball stadium, bought some hats and jerseys– some of us got some bling jewelry (Go RED SOX). Naturally, we had big foam fingers, hot dogs, beers. We talked smack, we cheered, we chatted it up.”