interesting 11.23.08
- Superstruct Celebration webcast
- Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) on Twitter
- Eyebeam on Twitter
- Herman Miller: Thoughtpile – How can technology become more human? Submit & vote on ideas
- Yoda the Kitten?
- National Geographic launches its 1st global retail store on London’s Regent St
- Mirror’s Edge 2D Beta (play for free!)
- Cory Ondrejka: CSCW08 keynote
- LittleBigPlanet: 84,000 user levels have been uploaded & 27+ million level play throughs completed
- LittleBigPlanet: new free “Sack-in-the-Box” costume & more
- MIT Media Lab creates Center for Future Storytelling – Teams up w/ Plymouth Rock Studios to reinvent movies
- Blue Mars virtual world to launch beta testing in Jan 2009
- Smithsonian in talks to acquire Shepard Fairey’s Obama portrait
- boxee: the open, connected, social media center for mac os x and linux
- YouTube – Video claims to be of “Second Life 2.0″. Real or Fake?
- Sony sets the stage for launch of its Home virtual world
- Sneak peek of PlayStation Home Beta system update (Asia site)
- Playstation Home Beta 1.0 – list of changes and new features
- Google to shut down Lively on Dec 31, 2008
- LOLCat Bible Translation Project
- Borange – Social Availability app for iPhone
- Digital Pictures Interactive: Papervision – Augmented Reality, using a webcam and flash
- A feature guide to current-generation gaming consoles
- The Open University: ReLIVE08 – Researching Learning in Virtual Environments
- World of Warcraft Identity of Obama’s FCC Transition Team Co-Chair Revealed, Analyzed
- Google SearchWiki: customize search by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search results
- YouTube Tests Out High Quality, Stereo Surround Videos
- MacArthur Foundation: New Study Shows Time Spent Online Important for Teen Development
- EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing
- IBM to lead US gov’t-funded collaboration to make electronic circuits that mimic brains
- Air France-KLM in virtual world Second Life
- Shuba Inu Dude Cam
interesting 11.16.08
- Linden Lab Announces $10,000 Linden Prize for Achievement in Second Life
- MGM to Post Full Movies and TV Shows to YouTube
- Honda Unveils Experimental Walking Assist Device With Bodyweight Support System
- Gmail launches voice and video chat
- Smule: Ocarina – musical instrument for the iPhone that uses breath, touch, and movements
- Fake New York Times Declares Iraq War Over! Here’s Who Did It
- Kevin Kelly: Web 10.0 – talk at Web 2.0 Summit [video]
- I Can Has Cheezburger iPhone App for taking Cheezburgers To Go
- Email Standards Project
- so_many_a_second: a visualizer that shows mondial statistics on a human scale
- Gullible Twitter users hand over their usernames and passwords – did you get your Twitterank yet?!
- FAS Virtual Worlds Almanac – the free directory of Virtual Worlds that anyone can edit
- LittleBigPlanet: GamePro Wins LittleBigContest
- New WATCHMEN trailer
- Annabeth Robinson: Second Life into Google video chat
- Twingr: Create Your Own Microblogging Community
- Virtual Reality Helps War Heroes Recover From Burns
- Select Media Festival 7: INFOPORN – the art of information design and data visualization
- new Dutch 5 euro commemorative coin by Stani Michiels
- iTalk Sync: Turn your iPhone into a high-quality recording device (free!)
- SNIF Tag: activity monitoring and social networking for dogs
