Inside the Cycleplex: The Weird, Wild World of Google Bikes – WiredAn inside look Google's bike culture. Facebook usage data reveals just how ‘depressingly stereotypical’ your life probably is – VentureBeatWolfram|Alpha studies people on Facebook...
Apparently, our culture has grown up slightly. Real-life Barbie For only the fourth time in the past 12 years and second consecutive year, Britney Spears did not make the list. For the 12th straight year, Yahoo has announced their annual year in...
I want to disconnect myself from this flabby consumer culture, not feed it. My favorite way of approaching the inner life of my prospect is via Avatar creation. Begin with simple demographic descriptors, then fill in something of their inner life...
Each time, you will be expected to exhibit a good fit with the culture, as well as a familiarity with your interviewees function and how it relates to the prospective role (sales, marketing, operations, I.T.communications, human resources, product...
Pop culture references to your topic (is there a screenshot from "The Simpsons" showing up in the SERP that’s related to what you do? The best things in life are free. Unless they’re this guy, the fatigue kicks in the second they go.
It also causes what I will refer to as a "sale culture". Understand that as much as I bang on about virtual commerce, that is not the primary way Linden Lab makes money from Second Life. In the case of Second Life there are two kinds of land...
Tis the Season to be Shopping: How Virtual Goods Are Impacting Holiday Shopping Culture Of Fashion and Sociology: The Psychology of Second Life In the case of sim owners, there's a lot of bucks involved, as a full sim costs $295 (USD) a month on...
Because mesh has some serious limitations, and those limitations have the potential to drastically alter SL culture- perhaps not for the better. I worry about a mesh clothing culture cutting down on what shapes are "acceptable" in SL in order to be...
The success of lead nurturing depends as much on sales and marketing culture as anything else. It’s a mix of tips about search marketing, B2B marketing, and life at a startup. We were early customers of some second generation search technology, but...
If you think that culture can't change in an evolutionary fashion, I suggest you watch "Revenge of the Nerds. A Culture of Response For those that just got lost, there is a base function within Second Life for macros (keyboard shortcuts) that will...
Twitter has its own culture, which relies entirely on real give and take between people. Note, however that it's not specific to Second Life, which is not altogether a surprise. Compelling narratives" translates in my head to something I won't...
Fundamental to Second Life culture is the fact that you can edit your appearance in myriad minute ways. I've also mentioned before that Linden Lab is looking to expand their user base by tapping into larger social networks, and in order to do that...
Whether you do it in person or online, it's something deeply ingrained in the culture of billions of people, and as such it's hard to shake. Just like in real life, creators of virtual goods in Second Life often have sales this time of year, and...
The most interesting thing about the Oklahoma law to me is that it signals a shift in mainstream culture. In the case of virtual worlds with a two-way cash exchange such as Second Life, what someone has in their inventory may very well be worth...
An entire culture has developed around lucky chairs, with freebie hunters stalking them for hours on end rather than spending money on merchandise. Since there's three different possible maturity ratings in Second Life, search became even more...
FOR A WESTERNER, what is most striking is how different Chinese Internet culture is from our own. It's also a kind of defiant act of moral idealism "in a country where life is changing more quickly than anyone could ever have imagined.
Even in pre-Display Names SL culture, just getting people to verify that they are over 18 officially with the site is like pulling teeth (I manage an adult sim. There are very real concerns as well that an influx of people used to Facebook's...
In this talk, Professor Lessig describes the creative and profitable future that culture and industry could realize, if only we gave up IP extremism. Professor Lessig argues that the way to end this war is to embrace what he calls the “read-write...
Localization means to transfer a message from one culture to another one without losing the meaning and the flavor of the message," said Lucian Cristea Lucian, director at BitDefender/Softwin. Ultimately, translation creates a second life for the...
Four years and millions of gamers later, the Internet culture and online gaming universe is now home for many seeking an escape from reality. Addiction might be too strong a word, but I have to confess that my fascination with the development of...
