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20 Science Fiction Novels We Can't Wait To Read in 2010 [Booklists]
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | 3 days ago
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You've got a list of books to read today, but what will you be yearning to read next year? We've picked out 20 scifi and contemporary fantasy books coming out next year that have us filled with excitement. Many publishers haven't firmed up their winter...
Tags: Zendegi, Nasim, Scarlett Thomas, science fiction, Adam Roberts, OMNI, virtual world, Greg Egan, Roland Barthes, Connie Willis, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, Death of the Author, Ellen Datlow, The Trigon Disunity, Cory Doctorow, Transhumanists, Ken MacLeod
The $350-million penguin
Kelowna :: Canada | 4 days ago
Credibility Last updated on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009 2:34PM EST T he most surreal moment of Lane Merrifield's career came on Oct. 24, 2008, when the young B.C. entrepreneur found himself standing on a stage in the middle of New York's Times Square, surrounded by...
Tags: Lane Merrifield, Disney Club Penguin, nascent Club Penguin, Disney Online, Disney and Nickelodeon, Despite Disney, virtual world, Dave Krysko, Lance Priebe, U.S, Canada, Kelowna, The Walt Disney Company, Virtual reality, Business Finance, Club Penguin, Penguin Books, Penguin
Special Report: Berlin's Personal Ideas on Technology
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Berlin's Personal Ideas on Technology Published: November 17, 2009 Thanks to its minimal rents and low cost of living, Berlin has a thriving creative scene. And the fashion designers in the midst of it all tend to be small businesses, with very personal...
Tags: Berlin of Twinity, personal idea, virtual world, Los Angeles, Twinity, Clothing, Technology Internet, Business Finance, Fashion design, Virtual reality, Martin Margiela
Disney's kid club
Hialeah :: FL :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Karate-chopping, soccer-playing and pizza-making penguins fill the screen of the Fumero family's computer when Michael comes home from a long day at Dade Christian School in Hialeah. The 10-year-old can't wait to go online into a virtual world known as...
Tags: club penguins, Club Penguin, Disney Interactive Media, TECHNOLOGY Disney, Magda Fumero, Michael, Lane Merrifield, Hialeah, Karate, Virtual world, Disney Interactive Media Group, Penguin
BigPond pulls plug on Second Life
Sydney :: Australia | 5 days ago
Credibility BigPond's presence will cease on December 16, signalling an end to its two-year “experiment” with Second Life, and residents of the Pond Estate have been given a month to relocate elsewhere. Second Life is a virtual world that enables members to build...
Tags: BigPond Island, ABC Island, unmetered usage, Australia, Sydney, Virtual world, Second Life, There, Avatar, Telstra, Virtual reality, BigPond
I gotta be me, or not
Pensacola :: FL :: USA | 7 days ago
Credibility The Escambia County School District has developed a virtual island in Second Life. This is a presentation space modeled after Quietwater Beach. (Special to the News Journal) Second Life Second Life is an online, 3-D virtual world designed by its players.
Tags: Pensacola, Second Life, Simulation, Virtual, Interactivity, Virtual reality, Virtual world, Mixed reality, Human Interest
Competing against others in the virtual world
Singapore :: Singapore | 9 days ago
Credibility The band, records how fast and how far a jogger runs through a chip inserted into their training shoes. The record of the distance and speed can later be uploaded on nikeplus.co.id, where people can measure their times against other runners. To lure runners...
Tags: Paul Palele, Sigi Wimala, virtual world, Singapore, Sigi, Space Integrated GPS/INS, Nike Inc., allnews, ITunes, Nike+iPod, Running
Linden Lab launches enterprise version of Second Life virtual world
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 18 days ago
Credibility The virtual world already has more than 1,400 companies staging meetings and conferences inside its virtual landscapes. But Linden Lab is now taking Second Life into the companies themselves with an enterprise version of the virtual world that sits behind...
Tags: virtual world
Meez teen virtual playground integrated into MySpace
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Meez has built a virtual playground for 13 million teens in the past couple of years. Now that playground is going to get a lot bigger and more crowded as Meez integrates its Meez Nation virtual world into MySpace. Meez users will be able to log into...
Tags: Meez Nation, virtual world, San Francisco
Linden Lab Sued Over Copied Virtual Goods
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility It was, in effect, taking bad real world laws and bringing them into a virtual world. It was even worse, because it was taking real world laws that were designed for a world of scarcity, and bringing them into a world of abundance -- and effectively allowing...
Tags: virtual world, real world, San Francisco
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