Goggle lively, is a superb web2.0 application, which utilises the interactivity of 3d virtual worlds with a simple integration.
Currently in beta, it is new and fresh, giving plenty of scope for new users to create virtual room, interact with friends or customers in your own space
thanks for taking time out to look at web2.0
Web2.0 is pleased to hear Linden Lab are finally opening up the web on a prim, a feature in the offing for over two years.
With the 1.19.1 Release Candidate, available today, we’ve made some
changes to the overall way that media is played inworld which results
in a more general approach to playing media and, more importantly,
allows you to display various types of Web content on your parcel!
This is a great step toward further interoperability with the Web,
which we’ve been discussing for some time.
The current parcel media player allows you to stream audio or video
(or both!) to visitors on your parcel. The parcel owner controls what
is played on the parcel and visitors to the parcel control whether or
not they want to listen or see the media. (Visit the Knowledge Base
for more information on how media on a parcel works currently).
The new media on a parcel feature allows landowners to select and
display a wide range of Web-based media content, including Web pages,
movies, images, text documents and audio. This change replaces and
expands the existing QuickTime parcel media feature, giving you more
flexibility in your media presentations. Currently, the displayed
media is entirely non-interactive, meaning you will only be able to
view and not be able to click web links, use scroll bars, or press
buttons on web pages displayed on parcels, although we hope to add
this functionality in the future.
A further big hitter entering the fray of web2.0 properties is NASA.
The NASA Learning Technologies (LT) Project Office supports projects that deliver NASA relevant content through innovative applications of technologies to enhance education in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Research and development in each of the STEM areas are at the core of the LT mission. LT seeks to enhance formal and informal education in STEM fields with the goal of increasing the number of students in those fields of study. The LT is currently evaluating the development of a NASA-based massively multiplayer online educational game (MMO).
A NASA-based MMO built on a game engine that includes powerful physics capabilities could support accurate in-game experimentation and research. It should simulate real NASA engineering and science missions in a medium that is comfortable and familiar to the majority of students in the United States today.
Until 15 February 2008, this opportunity is open to tender NASA MMO
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hailed by internet marketers as the best PPC since the advent of adsense, Facebook have quickly woken up to the protests by some Facebook users.
If you visit a Beacon Affiliate, any action taken, may trigger an automatic publication by that website of a Facebook story. Beofre that can happen now, a notification window opens in the bottom right corner of the screen, with the option to click “no thanks”. If you however close or ignore the warning all together, the story will be sent to Facebook, although not publish it.
The previous version, would have published the details directly to the mini-feed, the key change is now a user needs to confirm publication and a good move too.
Facebook, seem to be making some strange faux pas recently, perhaps the rapid growth has gone to someones head.
Internet marketers will be pleased to see this change being implemented, else the value of the advertising would have been severely limited. Whether it is in the best interests of the users of Facebook to have Beacon at all, is a moot point as far as Facebook are concerned.
The latest from web2.0 is the news from Google Experimental Labs.
A new Digg type feature is being worked on, which will permit searchers of google to thumbsup, get rid of it, or add their own preferences to a search taken through the Google search engine.
This will only affect the searches conducted by the individual user, as they need to be logged in to their google account.
see google experimental search for the full details
With the changes to Google Maps occuring, in this post on web2.0, considers what may happen going forward.
Google has announced two new features for Google Maps that mimic features in Google Earth, this is not the first occasion Google have added Google Earth enhancements to Google Maps.
The first feature, is the addition of terrain to Google Maps. Terrain fly over, has been a staple of Google Earth for some time, now with Maps this ability to see the terrain contours, through flyover, is repeated in Maps.
The second feature, is the community contribution, again a staple of Earth. ‘Our Maps’, enables users to annotate and share notes with the wider public or friends.
In 2004, Google made its first serious step into mapping, acquiring Keyhole, which enabled the launch of the download Google Earth, which provided a brand new and innovative way to see the earth, utilising satellite imagery.
Much of the ground breaking developments in Google Earth are being imported to Google Maps, which has the added user advantage of not requiring a download, which Google Earth does.
It surely can’t make sense for a business, which is not essentially a software company, to sustain long term, downloadable software, when they have an online solution, becoming incresingly competitive.
Thats all for this post of web2.0, please feel free to add your comments
New ideas from Blogrush in the world of web2.0
Blogrush, who provide a widget which can be posted to a blog, providing a syndication of similar blogs, are working hard to improve the service offered.
The Blogrush widget is offered free of charge and is aimed at increasing traffic across the blogrush network, through easy identification of relevant blogs. To see Blogrush in action click here The widget sits to the right of the blog underneath the blog archive.
The widget relies on an rss feed from the relevant blogs and all blogs are manually reviewed for inclusion in the system.
As part of the continued development of the blogrush service, a new site is being developed, called Traffic Jam, which will feature the ‘best’ of the blogrush blogs.
Users of blogrush have access to a dashboard which provides extensive information regarding the traffic, syndication and page views via the blogrush widget, together with a buzz meter. This buzz, will be used to generate the blogs featured in Traffic Jam. The buzz is created from a fairly complex algorithm, which compares sites by sector to identify the buzziest sites and blog entries.
No timeline has been given for the launch of Traffic Jam.
Here is the link again to see Blogrush in action. If you would like to try the system out on your blog, you can access the site at the bottom of the widget where is says, add your blog posts.
Skype and the mobile operator 3, are launching a new handset, which will enable users to make skype to skype calls or text message to skype for free.
The fully featured 3G internet phone developed in partnership with Qualcomm, will be available this year in the UK, Australia, Austria, Denmark, Hong Kong, Italy, Ireland, Macau and Sweden.
In addition to Skype calls the phone makes conventional calls and can be used to access 3’s broad range of other internet services.
Perhaps I am just too old and cynical, but some people do seem to take themselves too seriously.
Good old Second Life, the virtual worlds alpha ego site, has a number of discussion channels, many of which are helpful, but some become hijacked, as with all communication paths
For the past week, there has been a wave of communication about the ‘metaverse’ and what it shoudl be called. Names are being thrown back and forth, people claiming ‘it was my idea first’ and pointing to some unheard of blog, asthough it were the worlds most important think tank.
There are names for external netowrks, internal networks, still networks, connecting networks, etc. each with a more preposterous name than before.
While web2.0 is an exciting and fascinating place, please let’s not get carried away. Most of it is froth and duplicates of yet another site. New ideas are few and far between. Making those new ideas actually work is even harder, but already the wordsmiths are setting it all in stone.
Web access becomes easier still, thanks to augme.
Using technology more widely available in Japan, where it has been in use for a while. The idea is to use your t-shirt to enable people with bar code reader enabled mobile phones, to scan a t-shirt and directly access the website.
The barcode enabled phones are beginning to take off in Europe and North America, current models include, Mokia N93, N95 and E90. In Japan, the concept of scanning billboards, business cards and classified adds, is fairly common place.
The customisable t-shirt, just requires the barcode on the t-shirt to be photographed with the mobile and the software on the phone will laucnh the browser. Sites can be of anything, including augme profiles, which are mobile phone viewing optimised.