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Twitter in Africa and Virtual Worlds
On Your Cell Phone

Please see Soyapi Mumba’s, (Liloge, MW), post on Twitter and its possibilities in Africa where the use of mobile phones is much higher than that of computers. Mumba also links to some interesting new uses for Twitter that extend the genre of “what I am doing now” in interesting ways. For example, “The train system […]

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Virtual Worlds ’07: Philip Rosedale, Second Life
and Positive Global Development

Day One of the Virtual Worlds 2007, NYC. Philip Rosedale, founder and CEO of Linden Labs gave the opening presentation at VW ‘o7, 9am. In an auditorium jam packed with a Fortune 500 crowd gathered to look at, “The Future of Marketing and Media,” Philip Rosedale/Linden stayed true to his visionary, futurist roots. His talk […]

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From Net 0 To A Virtual World:
New Ways To Use The Net

Servers for the people! (picture from O’Reilly Radar) Welcome to Net 0! Warana Unwired, a project from Microsoft Research India (see blog), bypasses Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Web 3D and Web(n+1) etc., etc. and puts the power of servers directly into the hands of the people, replacing pcs with cellphones. This may be the first […]

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