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quinta-feira, 5 de janeiro de 2012
Coffee & Power, From Linden Labs Founder, Puts A Jolt of Creativity Into Crowdsourcing
Coffee & Power, From Linden Labs Founder, Puts A Jolt of Creativity Into Crowdsourcing
After building a vast virtual world with a complex internal economy sustained by the labor of more than a million active users, what do you do for an encore?
For Philip Rosedale, the founder and former CEO of Linden Lab, the company behind Second Life, the answer was to try to recreate some of the same dynamics in the real world.
Coffee & Power, the San Francisco crowdsourcing startup that Rosedale founded in 2010 with former Linden Lab colleague Ryan Downe and former Accenture consultant Fred Heiberger, is all about making it easier for people to do small chunks of creative work for one another, and get paid for it. Transactions are initiated online, at a website where people can post small jobs they need done or are willing to do. But most of the actual work happens offline—and there are even two physical Coffee & Power "workclubs," in San Francisco and Santa Monica, where members can meet to collaborate or deliver services. (...)
Impossible crystals are 'from space'
Examples of a crystal previously thought to be impossible in nature may have come from space, a study shows.
Quasicrystals have an unusual structure - in between those of crystals and glasses.
Until two years ago, quasicrystals had only been created in the lab - then geologists found them in rocks from Russia's Koryak mountains.
In PNAS journal, a team says the chemistry of the Russian crystals suggests they arrived in meteorites.
Quasicrystals were first described in the 1980s by Israeli researcher Daniel Schechtman, who was awarded last year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery.
Schechtman's ideas were initially treated with doubt or scorn by some of his peers, who thought the structures were "impossible".
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More at < http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16393296 >.British teenage designer of Summly app hits jackpot
Most teenagers will find any reason under the sun not to do their homework.
But 16-year-old South Londoner Nick D'Aloisio's excuse is better than most - he has been busy developing an app which has made international headlines and attracted a big investment from a Hong Kong-based billionaire.
Summly is an iPhone app which summarises and simplifies the content of web pages and search results. Currently it can condense reference pages, news articles and reviews but has the potential to go a lot further.
Mr D'Aloisio - the son of a lawyer and an investment banker - had the brainwave for it while studying.(...)
terça-feira, 3 de janeiro de 2012
Latin America in digital worlds
By Photo Stan
Entering an online world like Second Life to interact and discover avatars that speak only British is frustrating. However, this occurs since they're not looking in the correct places, it is indisputable that each day there is a bigger group of Hispanics participating.
Therefore in this article talk about the actual metaverse, a term which was born from the novel Snow Crash (1992) and writer Neal Stephenson referred to the Three dimensional environments, to be able to show Latinos and name spaces the virtual community these much more involved.
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Therefore in this article talk about the actual metaverse, a term which was born from the novel Snow Crash (1992) and writer Neal Stephenson referred to the Three dimensional environments, to be able to show Latinos and name spaces the virtual community these much more involved.
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segunda-feira, 2 de janeiro de 2012
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