Clickable Culture - Google Spreadsheet As Virtual World
the Google Docs spreadsheet application shares a few features with virtual worlds. I've been using the Google Docs quite a bit lately to work with my distributed team, and the spreadsheet seems to really shine in terms of worldy potential.
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Digital Culture, Play, and Identity - The MIT Press
This book examines the complexity of World of Warcraft from a variety of perspectives, exploring the cultural and social implications of the proliferation of ever more complex digital gameworlds.
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Managing privacy in a web 2.0 world
Responding to the rise in adoption of social networks, virtual worlds and other Web 2.0 technologies, IBM has launched a project to create tools to help people manage their privacy and identity on the Web
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Ofcom research identifies social networking profiles
Nearly half of all children in the UK who have access to the internet have their own personal profile on a social networking site, according to Ofcom research published today.
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Blended Reality: A look at bringing Second Life into Real Life | Tina Wood | Channel 10
What's it like to share a real-life stage with your Second Life avatar?
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Becta Government & partners - Emerging technologies for learning: volume 3 (2008): article summaries
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Tianamo 3D web search - data visualization & visual design - information aesthetics
a browser-based 3D information visualization tool for interacting with high-dimensional structured (eg. stock tickers, etc.) & unstructured data (eg. web search results)
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Image Recognition Problem Finally Solved: Let’s Pay People To Tag Photos
And now suddenly TagCow appears, which allows users to upload photos and have them tagged within a few minutes. The technology appears to be “magic,” meaning there’s no explanation of it.
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Constitutional challenge in the pipe | Australian IT
The federal Government could face a fresh constitutional challenge from the telco sector after it introduced legislation to parliament today that will force carriers to reveal sensitive information about their networks.
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Monkey business straddles platforms | Australian IT
A QUEENSLAND-BASED mobile content developer has created Australia's first animated series able to be seen across mobile phone, television and internet screens.
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VastPark
Distributed virtual worlds platform that enables you to grow your own virtual world -- "the Ning of virtual worlds"
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Cozimo — Collaborate and Review Digital Content Online, in Real-Time
With Cozimo you can collaborate and review images and videos — together in real-time or on your own time. Get feedback from clients and colleagues instantly. Cozimo is the faster, better, simpler way to work.
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Cobalt
an emerging open source and multi-platform metaverse browser and toolkit application being built using the open source Croquet SDK.
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Mixed Media-Google Streetview
So, why not recreate historical environments for students to give them a context for understanding, using the rich resources and tools available to us.
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CATT Laboratory
The CATT Lab is working to create an intensive training program that uses 3D multi-player computer gaming simulation technology to test, validate, certify, and reinforce the dissemination of best incident management practices
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Virtual Worlds Poised to Become Valuable Work Tools - ReadWriteWeb
Virtual worlds like Second Life, There.com, and "more business-focused offerings" are on the verge of becoming valuable work tools.
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Haiying Yang You Tube
Haiying Yang teaches Chinese silk painting through YouTube. The Sydney teacher has posted more than 270 short clips of painting techniques, which she combines with an introduction to Chinese language and calligraphy
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Australian Centre for Visual Technologies | VideoTrace: Rapid interactive scene modelling from video
a system for interactively generating realistic 3D models of objects from video. The user interacts with VideoTrace by tracing the shape of the object to be modelled over one or more frames of the video.
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Inside a Dog, insideadog.com.au
This is a website for young people about books. The site promotes young adult literature, highlighting Australian writers and their work, and includes the best of the international scene.
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TaLe
an education portal offering quality resources for teachers, parents and the community. When you use TaLe you can be assured that all material is authoritative and relevant to learning in NSW schools and TAFE.
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