Category: miscellaneous
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Hugh’s 10 Q&A with Seth on Meatball Sundaes
I got a copy of Seth’s new book from my friends at SAP right after the holiday and read it over the course of 2 days when I was in Orlando for our sales conference. The core idea that you have to decide what you are (a meatball or a sundae) and then be sure…
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My kid started her blog tonight
And to think I didn’t even get my first computer (and Commodore 128) until I was 12. She wants to post her art there, so check it out if you’re tired of the crap I do here.
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Virtual manufacturing in second life
John sent me the link to this video on Salon Ms .45 dvdrip perfect stranger divx online . While it’s a bit of an ‘art project’, the team that is working on this is doing a little bit of everything that I’ve been talking about here for the last year: Virtual worlds as a foundation…
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User generated products
I snuck in on another NewsGang live today and got to have a little chat with Dave Winer (inventor of a few things you all use every day). I asked him about some of the posts he put out in the first half of last year at the end of 2006 outlining the perfect podcast…
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Which engineering discipline is most important
Finally a flash game will let the world figure it out for themselves (hint: I am a mechanical engineer…by degree anyway). Engineering Game – Today’s Time Waster – Download Squad Scary Movie 3 movie The Limping Man
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My 2 cents on the newsgang – what Steve should do next
.!. I know, I know, I happen to sneak in to one show and now I’m the expert. The truth is I do have a vested interest in the Gang continuing it’s weekly discussions in that I feel like am sitting at the middle of at least one of the junctions that makes the gang…
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NPR – Second Life Haters?
From Fleep’s blog: “The people in Second Life aren’t worth reaching” – Fleep’s Deep Thoughts Freaky Friday movie full While I am not going to come to the aid of Linden Labs and Second Life specifically, I do think it would be hard to justify that statement in general about virtual worlds. Like it or…
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My 5 minutes of fame
Well, I guess my 5 minutes has come and gone ;-). I have been paying extra attention to twitter this week – really trying to figure out if its useful or just another distraction. Popular opinion seems to be that you have to follow a significant number of people (>100) to approach usefulness, so I…
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If SL = AOL, then ?? = the Net
One other interesting thought from the FIR interview with Erica Driver was an off hand comment she made about SL being kind of like AOL in that it’s a walled garden. This has been one of my biggest problems with using SL as a real business tool: it’s the most disconnected tool I use on…