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Photos: Furries, pirates, drag queens at 'Second Life' ball

What do you get when you tell a bunch of Second Life enthusiasts to dress up for a real-life costume party? Many of them go just as all-out as they would with their avatars in-world.What do you get when you tell a bunch of Second Life enthusiasts to dress up...

Tags: photograph, Second Life, lace, Second Life Community, Second Life Community Convention, avatar, wig, piracy, leash, Chicago, mask, jacket, hallmark, outfit, assortment, attendance, Hilton Hotels Corp., identity, brand

Image galleries 2007-08-27

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SxSWi 2009 keynote with Gary Vaynerchuk

The smartest business man on the Internet gave the unofficial keynote at SxSW Interactive this year. He is the definition of authenticity, motivation, and inspiration. Here are the best quotes from the talk: I pride myself in listening. When you...

Tags: Authenticity, Internet, Games, Recruitment & Selection, Biotechnology, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-03-15

Attention Craig Newmark: Citizens aren't customers

Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, has offered a thoughtful but misguided palliative at CNN to the shortcomings of the age of networked democracy. ... if you know how Americans use the Net to talk, you can easily stay in touch with real people. ...

Tags: Politics, Democracy, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-08-27

The trouble with idiots

In response to a talkback comment from several weeks ago I started this blog with the title "How many Enderlies, let me count the bogs" - but of course things went wrong. Specifically, the first Enderle thing Google hacked up for me to look at turned out to be full...

Tags: Groklaw, Enderle

Blog posts 2006-09-15

Second Life and social responsibility

Mitch Kapor keynoted at the Second Life Community Convention last weekend. He is also an investor and board member of Linden Lab, Second Life's progenitor. Mark Wallace has a comprehensive write up of Mitch's remarks, which places Second Life in context of the last 40 years of computing and Kapor...

Tags: Second Life

Blog posts 2006-08-22

'Second Life' becomes real life

Community gathers for its second annual conventionWhat happens when you combine San Francisco, music, drinks and real-life avatars? You get the second annual Second Life Community Convention kick-off party. CNET's Neha Tiwari spoke with Philip Rosedale, CEO and founder of "Second Life" publisher Linden Lab, as well...

Tags: Second Life

Videos 2006-08-19

Day 3: Ward Cunningham: "Trust me, I am not a bozo, I am worth your time"

(Wiki creator Ward Cunningham delivered the keynote Wednesday afternoon at EclipseCon 2006 titled "Software Creativity The Wiki Way".) Ward: I love programming. I'd even like to preserve the word, "programming". To me "programming" is the art and craft of reasoning...

Tags: collaboration, programming

Blog posts 2006-03-23