Hat tip to Kristan Wheatan at Mercyhurst for posting first. Interesting ‘risk analysis tool’ for evaluating your social networking habits: Social Networking: Action and Privacy Risk Methodology Social Networks are, lest we forget, there own virtual worlds….
Archive for January, 2009
How risky is your social network?
Posted in News on January 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Bots in Second Life – AI?
Posted in News, tagged bots on January 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The UK based company Daden has a pretty interesting demo of a Second Life based bot available on YouTube. SLurl to Daden’s inworld offices. The bot on display is more than simply a chat-bot and is able to emote and ‘learn’ within the Second Life environment. One of the more impressive features is how the [...]
Wired for War
Posted in News on January 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Use of Robots in warfare – interesting interview with P.W. Singer on NPR. Link here. Made me wonder about networking military robots with vitual worlds…..
Report by the Euro Information and Security Agency
Posted in Crime, Money Laundering on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The European Network and Information Security Agency published a report in December 08 entitled, Virtual Worlds, Real Money: Security and Privacy in Massively-Multiplayer Online Games and Social and Corporate Virtual Worlds. Link here.
Gaza, Information War and Second Life
Posted in News, tagged Gaza, Israel, Palestine, second life on January 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There is little doubt that Israel is putting substantial effort into its information posture during the military action in Gaza, with dedicated efforts on Twitter and You Tube. Therefore, although winning an information war is hard to measure (and in fact is in itself an important question) Israel does seem to be ahead in terms [...]
Twitter and War in Gaza
Posted in News on January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As the bloody events unfold in Gaza Israel began the information war early with foray’s into both YouTube and Twitter. Its hard to know how to measure the effectiveness of this information campaign. This chart from Twist provides one possible answer showing the number of tweets referencing Israel, Hamas, Gaza or Palestine.
