Posted in Uncategorized on April 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Yesterday saw the release of Grand Theft Auto IV accompanied as usual by howls of protest from certain quarters of the media about declining moral standards. For the uninitiated Grand Theft Auto is a video game where the player takes on the guise of a criminal character in Liberty city, which is modeled to look [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Apparently the Chinese virtual world HiPiHi has opened for public beta.
Clearly a significant shift in the world of virtual worlds!
Posted in News, Uncategorized on April 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Interesting profile — in which he discusses Second Life’s economy and the challenge of law enforcement (or not) in a globalized virtual word operating across legal jurisdictions. Worth a read:
Link here.
Announcement of new Linden Lab CEO, Mark Kingdon here.
Posted in Uncategorized on April 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Link here to Yaniv Berman’s article.
Ignore the silly avatar!
Posted in Extremism/Terrorism on April 24, 2008 | No Comments »
COUNTER-TERRORISM agents have launched an investigation into a multi-national terror threat made against an Australian using internet social networking website Facebook.
The first investigation of its kind was prompted by a death threat emanating from the Middle East against a Jewish woman and her family from an alleged member of the Iranian-backed terror outfit Hezbollah.
The woman [...]
