I did something really stupid today on a trip to the supermarket. It was chucking it down with rain as my wife and I drove to Sainsbury’s Calcot, parked in the car park some way from the main store entrance – Murphy’s Law: the harder it rains, the further you…
Last week, I wrote about Second Life’s growing pains with a conclusion that the combination of more users doing more things when online, and staying online longer on each visit, will likely lead to more grid downtime (such as the 2-day outage ten days ago) unless developer Linden Lab is…
It’s upgrade time again if your blog runs on WordPress. Version 2.0.6 was released yesterday. It includes critical security and other fixes so it’s a good idea to upgrade to this version. I’ve just done that with this blog. As always with WordPress, upgrading is a painless process when you…
$100 laptop project eyes launch 2007: Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn’t Live Without A 360 Degree View of Audience Engagement Amateur Hour At PayPerPost Amsterdam to evaluate open source Blog Debate About Dell’s Media Coverage Come Watch Four Eyed Monsters at the Crayonville Theater Disk-Drive Milestone: Terabyte For Social Networks,…
Content summary: Search every word in YouTube videos with Podzinger; Second Life to get a House of Representatives; Mia Farrow on Darfur in Second Life; Social Signal launches in Second Life; social media within the organization; Dan York’s tips on blogs and brands; more listener opinions on the Microsoft/Edelman PR…
Second Life is the virtual world that’s getting all the attention these days, especially in the English-speaking world. Here’s one that’s focused on Dutch and French speakers – Taatu, based in Belgium. It’s not new, having launched in Belgium and The Netherlands in 2005. But I’ve noticed a number of…
One topic that often comes up in conversations about blogging is how do you define a blog. Answering the question invariably includes a description of the attributes a website must have in order for it to be a blog: Reverse chronologically-ordered content, written by the author Author’s personality/passion shining through…
Linda Zimmer, the driving force behind the Business Communicators of Second Life group, has launched the SL Business Communicators Wiki: […] The wiki is intended to be a resource for members of the in-world group as well as interested business communicators and marketers. It is in its infancy, makes no…
