Koster's Areae Announces Metaplace Online Worlds Engine (Gamasutra)
Former Origin and Sony Online exec Raph Koster has revealed the major product from his new venture capital-funded firm Areae at the TechCrunch 40 conference in San Francisco, a new online worlds platform called Metaplace. According to information posted on the official Metaplace website: "Metaplace is a next-generation virtual worlds platform designed to work the way the Web does. Instead of ... us.rd.yahoo.com |
Who will untangle Unwired?
SPECULATION that Yahoo!7 was about to pounce on Unwired peaked yesterday when the latter suspended trading of its shares. australianit.news.com.au |
Controversial College Blogger Reveals Identity (Editor & Publisher)
NEW YORK For several months, University of Michigan senior Paul Tassi was one of campus’s most notorious figures, even though most students didn’t know him by that name. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Chris Ballard: Blogs empowering NBA players (Sports Illustrated)
It is often said that the NBA has an image problem. If this is indeed the case -- and that's a debate that involves sticky discussions of race, class and economics -- how does one go about changing that image? us.rd.yahoo.com |
Net users multitasking in front of telly
HAVING an onlife life revolving around sites such as MySpace, Facebook or Youtube does not lead to less time in front of the telly, according to a study. But it does cut face-to-face communication. australianit.news.com.au |