Is Freebase from Metaweb going to be what Cyc could have become? Shall the two merge?
Freebase merges the bottom up approach of the social web, with the hierarchies of directories, and the orderliness of traditional…
Writing & Ideas
Two decades of thinking, in order.
Writing since 2003, newest first. Filter by topic below.
Sony’s PlayStation Home validates, and pushes Second Life model
The blogosphere is abuzz (thanks, Massimo!) with the announcement at the Game Developers Conference of PlayStation Home, their take on…
Speaking at the annual meeting of Aegis Media
I have been invited to speak at the 2007 Annual Meeting of Aegis Media, the media, communications, and market research…
Try to help a hopeless 40 million euro online project in Italy, and get menacing emails
As reported by Bru, and originally posted on his blog by Maurizio, the Ritalia initiative that we started yesterday to…
Interactive Enigma machine simulator
On www.enigmaco.de there is an interactive simulator of the German Enigma machine that was used during World War II to…
Participatory Democracy
I am attending, from within Second Life, the conference “Beyond Broadcast 2007 – from Participatory Culture to Participatory Democracy” at…
I attended the luanch of D-wave Systems’ quantum computer!
I decided that the unveiling of the first commercial quantum computer by D-wave systems was a historical moment that I…
John Edwards announces presidential campaign in Second Life
Today on the Second Life News Network there is the news that at least one of the presidential candidates at…
Transcript of my lecture in Second Life on the Democracy in Virtual Worlds
Here is the transcript of my inaugural lecture of the Craedo Auditorium in Colonia Nova in Second Life: Welcome to…