I have to say, that this is one of the strangest projects I have seen so far in the realm of virtual goods. WhatsYourPlace is a web based platform on which you can buy virtual land on Google Maps for real money.

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Rumors about Maquari closing its doors this month just arrived me today via the German Web3D-Blog. Maquari is a pretty similar approach to Googles Lively, where you can create an avatar, your own 3D room and embed it on other websites, like your own Blog or your profile page on Facebook.
StageSpace is the German startup behind Maquari, […]

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This podcast and blog post is in German. In this episode I talk about Lively - the new virtual world approach from Google. I basically explain what it is, how it works and talk a bit about the background and Google’s strategy behind it .
Heute geht es in meinem […]

 

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The last two days two news dominated the virtual worlds scene. Google announced the launch of the ‘virtual world’ Lively and Linden Lab announced together with IBM, that they have reached the point, where they could teleport from the Second Life grid to an openSim Grid.
What have these two news in common and what does […]

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This podcast and blog post is in German. In this episode I talk about my observations, that everything gets more and more user centric. Informations find their way to me, the communication with corporations starts when I need them and finally I also talk about data portability (but very […]

 

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On my way to the office this morning I was listening to a podcast in which they have been talking about a shift away from searching to discovering. And I asked myself, if I also am someone who is affected by this change and the answer is: yes!
When I think about it, I really search […]

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[GERMAN] Short notice for english speaking visitors:
this podcast and blog post is in German. I talked to Kosmar at the opening party of the EAT workspace about EAT, FriendFeed, Swurl, identi.ca, Google and a bunch of other stuff.
Gestern war die Eröffnungsparty von EATs - Everybody All Together - neuem Büro in Berlin Mitte und ich […]

 

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Yesterday I received my invitation to the beta of the new search Viewzi - and I must say that I had really a lot of fun playing around with it so far. But what is Viewzi?
Viewzi is a highly visual and very different way to search the web. Rather than throw millions of results at […]

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