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Just imaginym…
Tateru Nino, on her blog, was recently discussing Google’s emergent policy toward usernames for their Google+ social networking service and confirming that Google, like Facebook, would prefer real-life names and not invented usernames (as from Second Life or similar) to be used. Coincidentally I’d been thinking about this earlier in the day and figured we [...]
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Grindr, the smartphone app aimed at gay men which tracks each user’s location, finds other cruising Grindrs in the immediate area and then facilitates instant hook-ups for instant…uhm…coffee, is now going straight and going mainstream with Project Amicus. No great surprise to see another user-location-based app being launched but it did make me wonder [...]
Read moreFutures past?
Quote from 1987, maybe Second Life could have been (could still be?) this – but guess who said it? “In the future, sophisticated computer simulations will allow students to walk through Athens with Plato, experience life in 17th-century France or perform biochemistry experiments normally requiring a $5 million laboratory.”
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