This is a blue skies vision of what's likely to come but it's fair to say that Now is truly the first virtual personal assistant worthy of the title. The app launched with 15 preset categories including such essentials as Gmail, Places, sports...
Former Google CEO shares vision in tech treatise (AP) provides a look at Schmidt's "exploration into the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead as the lines blur between the physical world around us and the virtual realm of the Internet.
Apple’s virtual assistant presents a very real threat to Google’s dominance and most of their fear emanates from the fact that its "engine" is already better at semantic search. It makes that process easier by mapping things like the relationship...
An app gives you the competitive edge you need to keep your customer from browsing the web and looking at your competition; instead it places them directly in your virtual store via your app. Is your site optimized for the mobile and tablet...
Things got very heated in comments, which was to be expected, but perhaps a bit confusing to anyone who wasn't closely following the story as it had been unfolding, or was not very familiar with how virtual worlds work in general (also expected...
But the possibilities certainly became more interesting in a virtual world, especially as griefers could find one another and join forces. Until Linden Lab starts actually managing their own (virtual) land and dealing with security issues in an...
This makes sense given the resistance virtual world users have toward combining their online life with that in their meatspace existence. The ability to change your actual username (as you can over in places like Livejournal.
What I've also noticed is a trend toward Linden Lab trying to understand how different people use virtual worlds, and attempting to bring a greater array of options to allow people to seek their own happiness.
Virtual transactions lack familiar clues about integrity, sincerity, and trustworthiness such as facial expression, tone of voice, and body language. Typos may be acceptable in some places, like tweets and Facebook comments, but commercial website...
This is a moment at which they could potentially lure people back into the virtual world to shore up losses from the past 18 months or so. But when searching for things, places, or events, it worked quite well.
Google Looks to Reduce 'Virtual Regret' by Sarah Carling Google Places Eats Hotpot: What's it Mean for Local Search? Google announced it is dropping the Tags feature for its Places product - a feature they were selling to small businesses to...
There are a number of themes that keep recurring when you discuss Second Life specifically, and more generally, virtual worlds and Internet business itself. When people travel in the real world, they are often looking to visit places the tourists...
By "checking in" via a smartphone app or SMS, users share their location with friends while collecting points and virtual badges. Part of the attraction of FourSquare is its tie in to Twitter, its mobile platform - users log in with their smart...
It seems like it's back to business time and the past two weeks have not been idle in the wacky wonderland of virtual worlds, so let's do a little catch up baseball. Places like SLNamewatch.com operated on this principle and were open to the public.
In general, it seems that Bing (the second challenger to Google in the search industry -- but far behind) could have figured out how to leapfrog right over Google and Yahoo by building this virtual bridge by linking Facebook directly to Bing.
The Oklahoma state legislature in a completely sensible (and therefore somewhat baffling move for a government agency) move, has created a new law regarding virtual property and what happens to it after you die.
American Express developed the OPEN Forum to bring businesses together, and by providing a place to do so they've brought their prospective customers under one virtual roof. If you've ever been to a conference, speaking event, or association...
Taking a quick virtual tour of the city reveals only a few blurred out buildings so far, and one stretch completely blacked out. The local search marketing game is changing fast, driven by Google Places, mobile, maps, Twitter, Yelp, Foursquare and...
Create your own local presences: Whether it's virtual or brick-and-mortar, make it and get it verified. Google Places makes a very clear statement about Google's focus for the immediate future -- and it's local.
It's part and parcel of the Second Life experience -- the molding of your virtual body into whatever you think it should be. On Tuesday, PayPal announced a new system for micropayments for virtual goods, and Facebook signed up.
