Electrolux :Innovation Program in Second Life

Second Life residents will be encouraged to submit ideas for useful devices designed to solve a specific challenge. They can present ideas already in development or projects that are still in the concept phase. They can work either as a team or as an individual.Electrolux will decide among the submissions which projects they deem worthwhile, [...]

Consumer (or Fan) Generated Content

An iPod Touch fan video, posted on YouTube by 18-year-old amateur cineaste Nick Haley, has become the next commercial for Apple’s music player.

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Social Networking Primed to Go Mobile

US And International Social networkers are significantly more likely to own technology, consume more digital entertainment, and own more mobile devices, according to an Ipsos Insight study that profiles social networkers and identifies differences in behavior and digital media consumption between them and others.
That’s an interesting trend, and a good news for Facebook. They [...]

"The way we live next" by NOKIA

Nokia recently held an event in Oulu, Finland, where the telecom company discussed how the best approach to technology is to think not only about the technology itself, but about how it will be used and how it impacts our lives. That’s the best definition for MY BLOG.
In the “The Way We Live Next” technology [...]

3D view of Flicker’s most interesting images

TiltViewer is an alternative interface to browse Flickr’s most interesting images in a 3D space. the interface is designed to provide an intuitive user experience while exploring a set of images pulled from Flickr’s Interestingness list.
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10 Percent Response Rate To Mobile Advertising

According to Adage :” A new Nielsen study finds that only 10% of the most likely candidates for mobile advertising — those using mobile devices for more than just talk, such as accessing the internet, sending text messages, playing video games or buying ringtones — responded to ads on their mobile phones. Eleven percent viewed [...]

Microsoft eats a slice of Facebook

“Microsoft Corp. agreed to invest $240 million for a minority stake in Facebook Inc. that values the social-networking site at $15 billion. As part of the deal, the two companies expanded their advertising agreement.” from the Wall Street Journal.
I’m not convinced at all.Why only $240 million??
The deal leaves some space for Facebook to run its [...]

Facebook/Google vs Microsoft/Yahoo

According to the New-York Post: ” Google is threatening to once again beat rival Microsoft to the deal punch, this time in the white-hot Facebook investment sweepstakes.
Microsoft and Google are each vying to take a stake of between 5 percent and 10 percent in Mark Zuckerberg’s social-networking site, with a deal expected to be [...]

The Most Important Blogs for Efficient Readers

A group of researchers at CMU have been considering a notion of blog importance based on how likely a set of blogs is to ensure that you will be informed of topics bursting in the blogosphere. By analogy, they consider a graph of water pipelines. Their paper - Cost-Effective Outbreak Detection in Networks poses the [...]

Interoperability in Virtual worlds: What do you think?

Some days ago, I heard about the partnership between IBM and Linden Lab to promote the interoperability across all online virtual worlds (Here). I think it is a great idea.
Now they are talking with more than 30 companies about this interoperability.This article from Read/Write Web is related to a discussion with 3 experts [...]