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- Biggest thing in 3D social spaces? The new Playstation 3 will come preinstalled with ‘Home’ for game matchmaking and socialising… Looks like it’s a hybrid of Second Life, Looking for Group functionality on World of Warcraft, Habbo Hotel and a number of other things. I suspect it’s going to be huge and probably the main reason I’ll end up buying a PS3…
- Gamespot at GDC talk through some of the more complex features of ‘Home’ This is going to be enormously huge and pretty transformative. The X-Box socialising environment which I’ve heard so much about seems pretty primitive in comparison now…
- Sunshinethe new Danny Boyle film about a bunch of people having to reignite the sunhas an interesting site dedicated to it I suspect there’s a whole range of things going on around movies in terms of word of mouth marketing and online activity. Not sure what I think about it. Probably a fact of life now…
- Wikileaks.org is a site dedicated to the apparently untraceable leaking and analysis of documents from oppressive regimes.. I’m sort of fascinated by this for a number of reasons. You have to wonder how secure they really are and if they’ve had this stuff carefully checked by professionals. And I wonder how western governments will react to leaks. Curious.
- Camouflage Lovely little gadget here that I think might make me feel a little less stressed. Hides all the icons on your Apple computer’s desktop. Nice.
- I’m a bit annoyed by this article on ‘technology addiction’ Are people addicted to the alphabet? The plough? Paper-making? Light bulbs? Technology addiction is such a lazy and reactionary phrase. The thing to be concerned about is human data processing and attention, if anything…
- There’s a lovely piece on YouTube asking some of the questions that should be asked about the House of Lords, but with puppets! This is the kind of thing that you’d hope YouTube would be full of, but unfortunately since the copyrighted stuff started to disappear the really creative stuff hasn’t really taken up the slack…
- Moo cards extend their social media card hegemony to Second Life and Habbo Hotel… The Habbo cards look totally beautiful, but it’s the Second Life cards that seem the most fun. You just take pictures of things you’ve seen in Second Life and e-mail them to MOO, then go in and choose the best ones to make cards from. Neat.
- I’m totally weirded out by gaybuntu… Which is to say that I love the idea of gay geek spaces online, but I’m also completely weirded out by why gay people would have any particular love or desire to use Ubuntu. Maybe I’m missing something?
- The Internet Walk is a weird / crappy (or perhaps just broken on my Mac) advert for the N800, which is a toy I want… For me it just keeps saying, “Loading the Internet, Loading the Internet” in a rich American TV voice. Makes Nokia seem kind of super dumb. Maybe it’s just my computer…
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The Nokia site works on my Mac with Safari. If you check out the activity monitor (Window→Activity, or ⌘⌥A), it's loading two quite large Flash movies while it's doing the 'Loading the Internet' thing. If you wait, it'll finish and you'll get access to a moderately-diverting site.
It is your computer… but the ad is crappy anyway, so i think your mac was protecting you for something.
If you’re looking for a new gay geek(ish) space online, feel free to come add more intelligence to the forums of http://www.thingbox.com ;o)
And woo to Stef taking over the world *GRIN*
The end of the ad was good, the rest was not.
The Nokia thing works, but it’s rubbish. Annoying American voice saying ‘innernet’ a lot. But props for putting last.fm in there – is this thing an iphone? Because that’s what it looks like. Did Nokia just scoop Apple?
p.s. Tom – you don’t have to apporve this one, but I’ve commented plenty of times before, but the site never remembers me… ?
I’m totally weirded out by gaybuntu… Which is to say that I love the idea of gay geek spaces online, but I’m also completely weirded out by why gay people would have any particular love or desire to use Ubuntu. Maybe I’m missing something?
I’m still trying to get my head round what packages/applications would be suitable for gay people but not straight… and vice versa…
I agree with you about Gaybuntu … is there really any need (is the GLB community shunned from the official forums? I think not …)