Google Earth, Google Sketchup, and other picture/satellite image search offerings are the latest tools that put visual reference to an online search, and help communicate multiple datapoints quickly (e.g. address, web location, physical location, and directions). Search is quickly becoming more information rich, dimensional, and intuitive.
What’s next? Search will very soon be a dimensional […]

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I’ve been a strong advocate of virtual worlds for some time now, from the launch of Coke Music years ago (which may be one of the most underappreciated efforts in this space, and one that was far ahead of it time) to the rise of World Of Warcraft.  Ideacity’s existing efforts within Second Life are a […]

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An Introduction to Browser 2.0

But first…
Web 2.0.  The second generation of Web-based communities has been with us for a few years and yet we still can’t boil the term down into an elevator speech for our clients.  The closest we have thus far is when Tim O’Reilly tried to (re)define the term in December of […]

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Continuing my look at Second Life Statistics, I thought I’d take a look at a few stats that critics say are really important.
Residents Logged-In During Last 30 Days (as of today): 1,050,655. Clay Shirky, in particular, criticizes Linden Lab for not touting this number, which Shirky says is commonly used by the online marketing industry […]

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