Interesting commentary from Dr. Roger Smith – CTO for the US Army. Link to pdf here. As web 2.0 appears to be on life-support both as a terminology and perhaps as a business model (giving everything away for free and hoping one of the big players buys you out). Maybe its time for a new [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Dot.Sim Boom
Posted in News on May 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
New Post on CTBlog: ISC report into 7/7 and Information Clouds
Posted in News on May 19, 2009 | 3 Comments »
New post on CT blog: The Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) in the UK was established by Parliament as part of the 1994 Intelligence Services Act to examine the work of the intelligence and security agencies in the UK. The ISC was asked to review information, which emerged following the CREVICE trial in April 2007 [...]
SOCA and Games
Posted in News on May 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Director General of the UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) claimed at the launch of the agencies annual report that video games were being used by crime bosses locked up in UK jails to communicate with their associates on the outside. This in turn caused a row with the head of the UK Prison [...]
Rheta’s worlds end
Posted in News on May 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of the best essays written about the Second Life experience and immersion was written by a Second Life Avatar named Rheta Shan. The title is ‘ The World Philip Made’. Tragically, New World Notes is reporting that the woman behind the avatar was killed in a traffic accident, which makes reading her essay again [...]
Not Bad!
Posted in Uncategorized on May 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The fog of (cyber) war
Posted in News on May 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Fog of Cyber War
Griefing and Raiding and Entropia
Posted in Uncategorized on May 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Currently playing with an idea relating to the nature of conflict within virtual spaces.
IARPA -Project Reynard Solicitations
Posted in News on May 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.iarpa.gov/solicitations_reynard.html
Chinese online gaming company 1Q profits double
Posted in News on May 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Changyou.com Ltd, which went public last month posted a 1Qprofit of $33.5M. Economist piece on Changyou: Changyou is making a fortune selling items in a virtual world PERHAPS it should not be a surprise. In the midst of a global capital shortage, the first company to list this year on New York’s NASDAQ exchange not [...]
