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Monthly Archives: October 2008

Nortel takes a Chainsaw to virtual reality

Nortel, a Canadian Telecom company, is developing a project that they feel brings a needed dose of reality to virtual worlds and 3D chat environments.  They’re working on it through a rapid prototype development cycle via a project they’ve dubbed Project Chainsaw (not surprising for Canadians I guess). ; )

Photo Copyright Nortel - Project Chainsaw […]

Rocketon - takes avatars and chat everywhere you go on the web

In researching a presentation on virtual worlds I’ll be giving at EDayz in a few weeks, I came across a tweet about a blog post from Gary Hayes called Inching Towards the live Web 3.0 - Layered Social Virtual Worlds.
In the article, he demos some avatars (virtual representatations of real people) that inhabit not a virtual […]

Online activism to raise awareness of depression

This Friday 10 October, Australian online social networkers will be going blue for Beyond Blue Day, to raise awareness of anxiety and depression disorders as part of Beyond Blue’s ADA awareness month.
To get involved, you can change the image you use on your favorite online sites — either by creating your own or getting one […]

The State Library of NSW - my newest Flickr Contact

In January I blogged about Flickr Commons — a program whereby Flickr invites cultural institutions to share their library of photos and invite the public to tag them.
Now, the State Library of NSW is the first Australian library to join in.
The curators have selected one hundred photos that they feel capture “quirky and momentous historical […]

A short post on microblogging

This just came to my attention via Twitter and it sparked my imagination!
Telstra Big Pond is using Twitter http://twitter.com/BigPondTeam as a customer service/communications tool.  Obviously different people man (or woman) the account at different times throughout the day.  They both respond to Tweets from customers and Tweet information of use to their customers.
Bringing this into […]