Yesterday evening I downloaded Second Life an online three dimensional, graphically intense virtual world in the MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) category. This morning, first thing (well, SECOND thing, after reading The New York Times I cancelled my seven day trial membership in Second Life (affectionately called “SL” by the in crowd.)
The cable guys are upping the ante on “my broadband Internet access is faster than yours.” Adelphia has started offering 16 Mbps downstream 2 Mbps upstream..
After trying this and that “social networking” service (and ultimately completely disengaging from LinkedIn and Plaxo) The Tribe is my one remaining experiment in this space.
Have you been worrying (as I have…) about what we’ll do with the almost infinite amount of CPU cycles that will soon wash over us?
Almost all podcasts in mid-2005 are Vanity Audio on Demand. These pathetic attempts at a radio-like experince are so bad that American Idol producers would BURN THE DEMO TAPES (well, destroy the MP3 files).
DOCSIS 3.0 allows cable companies to bond multiple channels together. This allows them to deliver as much as 130Mbps Internet access downstream.
(This is a follow-up to my earlier WorldProcessor entry.) Stunning data visualization by Ingo Günther using globes. [via What's in Rebecca's Pocket?] and [via World Changing]
Dave Winer’s OPML editor is an online collaboration tool based on shared instant outlines. It’s still rough around the edges, but Uncle Dave is on to something BIG. This could become a widely accepted alternative to e-mail for team collaortaion. I sense a blend of the charms of wikis and RSS feeds.
If Worldprocessor doesn’t blow you away, your mind is dead.
