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TweeBating – online, real time
Last week I sat around a large table on the top floor of Bush House in London with about twenty other people while we talked about the ways radio is changing and tried to imagine how English-language programming on BBC World Service could take advantage of the online, multimedia world that is emerging around us. I was invited because I appear on Digital Planet each week to think out loud about the impact of technology on our lives, but this was an internal BBC meeting rather than an open seminar, and the discussion was never intended to be made public. That didn’t stop one of the other attendees, technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones, from recording a segment of the introductory remarks that Ben Hammersley, the associate editor of Wired UK, made and posting it online via AudioBoo.
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Crunches Red Planet PDC Microsoft is hoping to out-Google Google by unlocking the world’s information and slapping a GUI on the front end.…
Continue reading »Tech transfers to developing world needed for sustainability
On Tuesday, the group within the United Nations that focuses on economic development (the Development Policy and Analysis Division) released its annual World Economic and Social Survey. The 2009 version of this report is entitled “Promoting Development, Saving the Planet,” and focuses on how climate change issues will impact the developing world. It’s a sprawling document, but the basic thesis is simple, and one that’s widely recognized: we cannot afford to have the developing world follow an unsustainable path to modernization.
Continue reading »Entropia Universe Will Disappear and Come Back With BitTorrent
Massively multiplayer online role-playing games (better known as MMORPGs) are online worlds where huge numbers of players can interact. The genre is extremely popular with the most popular game being World of Warcraft – it has a colossal 11.5+ million subscribers. Another successful MMORPG is Entropia Universe .
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