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Steve O'Hear is a London-based consultant, educator, and journalist, focussing on the Internet and all aspects of digital technology. He advises businesses and not-for-profit organisations on how to exploit the collaborative and publishing opportunities offered by the Web, and has written for numerous publications including The Guardian and Macworld. Steve...- more about Steve O'Hear »
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- Second Life a terrorist training camp?
- In what has to be one of the most sensationalist and fuzzy pieces of journalism I've read in a long while, The Australian newspaper has published an article that links terrorist training with the virtual world of Second Life.Terrorist organisations al-Qaeda and Jemaah Islamiah traditionally sent potential jihadists to train...
- Tags: Virtual Worlds, Second Life
- Blog posts 2007-07-31
- Banned: Gambling in Second Life
- If, like me, you've lost a few hundred Linden dollars on a virtual roulette wheel in Second Life, and were planning on returning sometime soon to win it all back -- you're out of luck. After coming under increasing scrutiny from the FBI and other law enforcers, Linden Labs has...
- Tags: Virtual Worlds, Second Life
- Blog posts 2007-07-27
- Canadian cops recruit in Second Life
- Last month, the Vancouver Police Department VPD held a recruitment seminar in Second Life. Yes, you read that right: recruiting law enforcement officers through a virtual world. The idea, the VPD said, was to target a generation who are extremely web-savvy. If they are early adopters venturing into a virtual...
- Tags: Virtual Worlds, Second Life
- Blog posts 2007-07-02
- Viacom to buy Last.fm?; Sony launches YouTube competitor; Atari plans its own virtual world; USAToday's social strategy sees results
- The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week…Viacom to buy Last.fm? The rumor mill is buzzing with news that Viacom is far in negotiations to purchase London web 2.0 poster-child, Last.fm (the leading music-based social network). "The...
- Tags: Music, Second Life, Social Networks, The Social Web weekly, Virtual Worlds, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- Google Earth to get a Second Life?
- Michael Eisenberg a partner at VC firm Benchmark Capital has posted on his blog about a rumor hes heard regarding Googles plans to build a virtual world based on Google Earth. Eisenberg writes:Heard an interesting rumor today from an academic who heard through the PhD grapevine...Google is working on turning...
- Tags: MySpace, Virtual Worlds, Google, virtual world, Google Inc., Google Earth
- Blog posts 2007-01-25
- Second Life client open-sourced
- The makers of Second Life Linden Labs have announced that as of today the client software for its virtual world will be released under an open-source license (GNU GPL version 2). This means that the outside development community can help improve the existing software needed to log-on and interact with...
- Tags: Linden Labs, Second Life, virtual world
- Blog posts 2007-01-08
- Virtual worlds need open standards
- When Stephen Shankland interviewed IBMs VP of Technical Strategy and Innovation, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, at CNETs virtual offices in Second Life, much of the discussion centered on the need for the makers of virtual worlds to develop and embrace standards. At the moment for example, Second Life technology is as proprietary...
- Tags: open standard, virtual world, standards, Second Life
- Blog posts 2006-12-18
- How long before the law enters Second Life?
- In a recent post I reported on the crime problems that have plagued the virtual world of Second Life, and the reluctance of Linden Labs the games makers to act the role of law-enforcer. So who exactly should rule virtual worlds like Second Life? Thats one of the questions which...
- Tags: Second Life, Virtual Worlds
- Blog posts 2006-12-01
- Second Life: gangs, theft and goo.
- According to Business Week, Second Life has a crime problem. First there was the CopyBot saga theft; then a worm which spread grey goo throughout the virtual world, bringing the games servers to a standstill vandalism; and now it seems gangs are forcing members out of public places (anti-social behavior):It...
- Tags: Games, Linden Labs, virtual world
- Blog posts 2006-11-22
- CNET interviews the Gandalf of virtual worlds
- CNET has an interesting interview with Bruce Damer, a virtual world expert and author of the 1997 book Avatars he also runs the very cool DigiBarn computer museum but thats a different story. "Im sort of a Galdalf of the Grey of virtual worlds", he says. "Ive seen all of...
- Tags: Virtual Worlds, virtual world
- Blog posts 2006-11-10
Additional Resources
- The Office (2.0): No paper? No problem.
- I think I may have been the only person at this week's Office 2.0 conference using - gasp! - a pen and paper. There was no program "book" when I registered - the agenda was online only. And none of the exhibitors handed out press releases on paper - though...
- Tags: Document, Microsoft PowerPoint, Appirio, SlideRocket, Digital Signatures, Collaboration, Productivity, Groupware, Fax, Microsoft Office, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Office Suites, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Google Chrome vulnerabilities starting to pile up
- [ UPDATE: See below for Google's official response to these issues ] Security vulnerabilities in the new Google Chrome browser is beginning to pile up. Following our coverage of the carpet bombing combo threat and denial-of-service crashes, several readers have sent pointers to...
- Tags: Google Inc., Vulnerability, Web Browser, Google Chrome, ModSecurity, Web Browsers, Security, Internet, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Enterprise password management really isn't a good idea
- Being at a university and working for a government department allows me to understand this concept well. There are shared resources here, there and everywhere, provided by different people and providers, all open to a "certain type" of person - employees or students. By having a single sign-on SSO point...
- Tags: Software, Password Management, Mozilla Firefox, Password, Single Sign-on, RoboForm Enterprise, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Microsoft exec rebuts hypervisor security claims
- Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley has answered claims that the company's hypervisor software could be maliciously replaced on PCs without administrators knowing. SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA--Senior Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley has used the vendor's TechEd conference in Sydney to rebut claims by a Polish researcher that Microsoft's hypervisor software could...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Hardware, Liam Tung ZDNet Australia, rootkit, hypervisor, Joanna Rutkowska, security
- News items 2008-09-05
- EA's 'Spore' aims to create new worlds, businesses
- Electronic Arts's creature-building game "Spore" offers players a chance to develop new worlds--and maybe even new lines of business for the video game maker. RALEIGH, North Carolina--Electronic Arts's creature-building game Spore offers players a chance to develop new worlds--and maybe even new lines of business for the video game...
- Tags: Electronic Arts Inc., Spore, Games, Personal Technology, Reuters, Electronic Arts, video games, Nintendo
- News items 2008-09-05
- VMworld is bringing out the vendors
- Planning for an announcement is a challenging task. Large suppliers know that just about whatever they do will be picked up by the media and presented to the world. Smaller vendors have a much more difficult time getting heard. So, picking the right place and time for an announcement is...
- Tags: Supplier, Announcement, VMworld, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- News to know: Windows 7; Patch preview; Office 2.0; Dell
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Critical WMP, MS Office bugs on Patch Tuesday swat list Dancho Danchev:Malware and spam attacks exploiting Picasa and ImageShack Mary Jo Foley:...
- Tags: Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Comcast Corp., Microsoft Corp., Office 2.0, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Microsoft Student Technology Day UK
- Note Wednesday 1st October 2008, a little over 3 weeks away from today in your diary. Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft and a whole load of influential partners and companies will be in London for the Microsoft Student Technology Day. It's a day about and for students,...
- Tags: Entrepreneurial, Microsoft Corp., Entrepreneurship, Management, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Red Hat draws its line in the virtual sand with Qumranet
- The caves of Qumran, located in in the highly disputed region of the West Bank that sits between Israel and Jordan and is populated by both Palestinians and Jews, is where the famous Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. The scrolls are said by many Judaic scholars...
- Tags: Hypervisor, Red Hat Inc., Virtual Desktop, Qumranet, Open Source KVM, Virtualization, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Should political postings stay or go? A survey.
- I've been blogging for ZD Net for several years, writing for ZD publications for almost 20 years. I've always found readers to be intelligent and thoughtful, which is why I continue to do this while doing other things as "work." My posting, A virus in your genes, think about that,...
- Tags: U.S., R&D, Discovery, Blog, Politics, Survey, Creationism, Rational Rants, Research & Development, Blogging, Business Operations, Internet, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
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