facebook had it’s IPO last week and one big reason they are worth so much is because of you, not them. the demographics (dems) are what make facebook worth so much and those demographics are metrics about you! what a way to seperate the human being from the dollar eh? you are an account, an account [...]

over on Hypergrid Business i saw a link to a legal firm that has started a blog dealing with legal issues specific to virtual worlds and video games. video games are often big money and involve a much larger community, so it’s natural to expect legal issues. as virtual worlds continue to grow, we will [...]

some people like to take a break and explore being anything they want to be – from blue flying bears to little beavers to pink-haired winged emo wannabes to robots, others like to share their music and play for VW concerts and clubs, some like to create fantasy lives with wild houses, flying machines, and [...]

on Mondays (and most mornings) i take a look at my Yahoo reader (an RSS reader like Google) and this morning i read soror Nishi’s friday post Obama Admits Earth is Round…. it’s a fun look at current news events and places them in their rightful context of pretty much being absurd and that we [...]

right after i got “disabled” by facebook, i ran across an interesting (as in disturbed and obsessed) character who was making it his mission in life to get fake facebook accounts banned. the irony is that he himself is a fake person (unless his parents were Satanists) with a name of Lucifer Midnight (i should [...]

Facebook discrimination. It’s stupid, plain and simple. It’s like looking down on someone because they don’t have a smart phone or cable tv (I have neither, by the way). Or not hiring someone because they don’t like your favorite sports team. I would be MORE likely to hire someone who understands the potential dangers of [...]

i saw somewhere that the average facebook user is worth $3.96 USD per year. facebook and google think they can determine who is real and they have no use, and thus no place, for anyone that does not have a real name (so is Lady Gaga worthless?) . our community sees that when facebook purges [...]

phew, what a pain it is being so OCD! yesterday i mentioned why i’m doing a blog make over and once it is done, there should be very little different from the way it’s been for the last two years. it’s not so much in how it’s laid out that is being changed, it’s the [...]

this blog probably is looking a little weird to you and some things have shifted around. like the comment count being after the post instead of the top of it i’m laying in an HTML5 theme and modifying it to suit me and also to be user-friendly. it usually takes me a week to get [...]

everyone loves logos and everyone thinks they are easy to make. most people (including me) want to put too much “stuff” on a logo. too much stuff makes a logo unusable at very small sizes and/or in black and white like you might see on a business card of letterhead for example, the Nike logo [...]

comparing OpenSim to Second Life will be an on-going thing for some time to come, especially by those that may have started in Second Life. that is slowly changing as the demographic continues to shift to people that start in OpenSim or only use OpenSim as their virtual world venue Second Life continues, and probably [...]

the official new Google privacy policy goes into effect tomorrow. i imagine Google has an ongoing process for removing bogus accounts but would not anticipate any widespread cleansing to occur because that would generate bad press however, it’s important to know that this change is occuring because many of us use Google services such as [...]

i’ve been diving head first into HTML5 during this week and learning lots of new things (like they don’t use DIV tags!?! holy kaw, that’s a big change!) but anyway . . . while i’m fiddling around with that (i’ll likely change this blog over to HTML5 at some point) i’m also messing around with [...]

in a similar vein to the SOPA stuff of a few weeks ago and the pseudonym battles between some virtual world folks (self included) and Facebook and Google+, the new single, all encompassing, mine-you-deeper-and-harder-than-ever-before policy changes might actually violate an FTC settlement last year! read it for yourself: Make FTC Act Against Google, Privacy Advocates Ask [...]

over sixty (60) different Google policies are being rolled into one encompassing privacy policy seeing as many of us in virtual worlds treasure our pseudonymity, this type of change may be significant and you can read about it here on Google and here on VentureBeat you can get an idea of how it all rolls together [...]