Massive Catch-Up Issue #1413 (Games, Virtual Worlds, banking concepts and more)
Custom Laser-engraved Moleskines: me want
Google announces OpenSocial 0.8: more data portability
Scientists to Build Concept Bank: "Information scientists announced an agreement last month on a “concept bank” programmers could use to build thinking machines that reason about complex problems at the frontiers of knowledge—from advanced manufacturing to biomedicine." ...do you get a receipt for ideas that you deposit in a concept bank? (Link to the Ontology Summit 2008)
Web 2.0 in Business: Nice article from CIO magazine urging people to get out there are try some 2.0 stuff "My advice to all executives today is just get in there. Set up accounts at Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, Dopplr and Twitter. You can't begin to understand the real value (and therefore what the right approach is for your company and your customers) until you experience it for yourself."
Ben 10 Alien Force Game Creator: So I find my 8 year old son hunched over his computer the other day and I say - wat'cha doin? And he says - "Building a game" - and he includes that little note of disdain like somehow I should have intuited that from his posture of something. This tool is very basic but its so simple that an 8 year old is figuring out things like play balance and testing.
Yahoo! releases BrowserPlus: Extend the browser...(news coverage)...not quite ready for prime time but another in the 'extend the browser to the desktop' wars....as if on cue, here is a bit about Google furthering its efforts in this area...
Text2MindMap: I love me some mindmaps...
The MFA Is the New MBA: "Getting admitted to Harvard Business School is a cinch. At least that's what several hundred people must have thought last year after they applied to the graduate program of the UCLA Department of Art-and didn't get in. While Harvard's MBA program admitted about 10% of its applicants, UCLA's fine arts graduate school admitted only 3%. Why? An arts degree is now perhaps the hottest credential in the world of business." ...hmmm, design anyone?!?
Grockit Gets $8M Series B for "Massively Multi Player Online Learning Game"
Updated virtual world data for Q2 2008: Nice visual of the virtual world universe...
Virtual Worlds Management Industry Forecast 2008
Mark Kingdon: For Second Life "Inworld collaboration is going to be a killer application."
Vollee to include iPhone support for their mobile Second Life client: Well, that should be cool over 3G...
Wireless Social Networking To Generate $2.5 Trillion By 2020: Geez! That's with a freaking "T"!
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