Category: miscellaneous

Finally a flash game will let the world figure it out for themselves (hint: I am a mechanical engineer…by degree anyway). Engineering Game – Today’s Time Waster – Download Squad Scary Movie 3 movie The Limping Man

.!. I know, I know, I happen to sneak in to one show and now I’m the expert. The truth is I do have a vested interest in the Gang continuing it’s weekly discussions in that I feel like am sitting at the middle of at least one of the junctions that makes the gang…

From Fleep’s blog: “The people in Second Life aren’t worth reaching” – Fleep’s Deep Thoughts Freaky Friday movie full While I am not going to come to the aid of Linden Labs and Second Life specifically, I do think it would be hard to justify that statement in general about virtual worlds.  Like it or…

Well, I guess my 5 minutes has come and gone ;-). I have been paying extra attention to twitter this week – really trying to figure out if its useful or just another distraction.  Popular opinion seems to be that you have to follow a significant number of people (>100) to approach usefulness, so I…

One other interesting thought from the FIR interview with Erica Driver was an off hand comment she made about SL being kind of like AOL in that it’s a walled garden.  This has been one of my biggest problems with using SL as a real business tool: it’s the most disconnected tool I use on…

Forrester has been spitting out a number of reports in the last 6 months on the opportunities and pitfalls of doing business in virtual worlds like Second Life.  The latest by Erica Driver is called “Getting Real Work done in Virtual Worlds” and is available here for Forrester subscribers. I took a listen to an…

.!. I saw this yesterday and for some reason it stuck with me: ‘Guitar Hero,’ ‘Rock Band’ drive music sales – Internet- msnbc.com There’s really a lot to this when you think about it.  Here’s what I see: user’s want to be in control.  They don’t just want to listen to music, they want to…

That there were 17(!) different things to do with Twitter.  I think I have only really considered one or two of these.  No wonder so many people are signing up.  And some say there is no business model… 17 Ways You Can Use Twitter: A Guide for Beginners, Marketers and Business Owners

.!. Seth’s Blog: Workaholics