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    First Monday – Web 2.0-Issue: A critical (academic) view on Web 2.0

    First Monday is a peer reviewed online-journal (since 1996), dedicated to internet studies. Here’s the TOC of the newest issue (13/3):

    Preface: Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0 HTML Michael Zimmer Market Ideology and the Myths of Web 2.0 Abstract HTML Trebor Scholz Web 2.0: An argument against convergence Weiterlesen: First Monday – Web 2.0-Issue: A critical (academic) view on Web 2.0

    Virtual Worlds vs. Digital Games ~ Web 2.0 vs. Web 1.0?

    Just stumbled upon that Blogpost of Alex Krotoski at the UK Guardian’s (digital) games stream entitled “Getting serious about virtual worlds”, where “Serious Virtual Worlds conference director David Wortley answers some serious questions about virtual worlds”. David Wortley ist also the director of the Serious Games Institute at Coventry University, and of [...]

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    Freebase – public alpha

    Freebase, a cutting-edge service that could turn out to be a milestone in semantic web technologies, is now in “public alpha”, which means everyone can access and use it. (Alpha is the new beta, you know …)

    Freebase gatheres its data from open accessible data sources such as wikipedia and does an obviously [...]

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    Web 2.0 – Enlightenment

    This one’s a bit off-topc, I guess. On TED.com, there is a great video of Buddhist monk and scholar Bob Thurman talking about some core ideas of Buddhism, especially the interconnectedness of everyone and everything. It’s so humorous it really made me “lol”, so I wanted to share it.

    Interestingly, Thurman doesn’t evoke a [...]

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    Metaverse Roadmap Project – Bericht zur Zukunft des 3D-Web

    Das “Metaverse Roadmap Project” ist ein Gemeinschaftsprojekt diverser im Metaverse-Sektor tätiger Firmen. Mit einem Budget von 100k $ ausgestattet, widmet es sich möglichen zukünftigen Entwicklungen und Bedeutungen virtueller Technologien.

    “The MVR has “near-term” anticipation horizon of ten years (to 2017), a “longer-term” speculation horizon of twenty years (to 2025), and a charter to discover [...]

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