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 [...]

are you in the US? please consider signing the Google anti-SOPA petition. thanks =)

the imagination fuels all things virtual and real and it’s pretty cool when you something imagined becomes a reality i read an article entitled Flying robots to build structure in France and was amazed and highly pleased. it’s exactly what the title says it is and the thing that made me smile like a little kid? [...]

for many people in the US today is a bit like a friday because the US Thanksgiving is tomorrow (and for those caring people that wanted to wish me a happy canadian thanksgiving – you suck! it was last month, gee thanks!) =p lol, just teasing – every day is a day worth giving thanks [...]

i like numbers and while they do fuel my ego, they’re just numbers. i use Google Analytics on anything i do web-related and here are some random things: simonastick.com has been viewed in 93 countries, using 73 languages, with the top 20 being US, France, UK, Germany, Italy, Australia, Canada, Spain, Netherlands, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Japan, Brasil, Ireland, [...]

Habbo Hotel is fun, well if you are 14 it’s a blast and it’s been around since 1999. it’s an isometric world where teens hang out and talk. last week the blogosphere was buzzing with Shaker which connects your Facebook account with what looks almost exactly like Habbo! will it succeed for adults the same [...]

it’s a fleeting milestone but for a geek like me it makes me smile =) we just reached our 30,000th Twitter follower and it’s kind of fitting that their bio pic is a winged lady since that was how i started, and continue to be, as an avatar i think this honour might even come [...]

lots of people follow the growth of Second Life and OpenSim for many reasons. Second Life has been very slowly declining and OpenSim has been slowly increasing i tend to think in terms of their growth as being mainly due to how useful they are and how easy they are to use. certainly, that is [...]

with all the talk about G+ deleting fakey accounts (despite US Federal laws claiming that as possible discrimination) you can go one step beyond not having an account with them (or facebook) you can actually surf about the web in anonymity. i *may* know about using other proxies to do whatever online but those can [...]

About 1/3 of people claim to be “overwhelmed” by social media. Here are some thoughts on taking control.

many of you have your own blog or store website or whatever website for your virtual world endeavors and you know about different browsers. before my reformat debacle, i used Chrome mostly, followed by Firefox, and then IE. i would sometimes download Safari for a quick look. with the reformatting, i am going to try IE8 [...]

thanks to a post on Daniel Voyager’s blog i see that Facebook went through their annual spring cleaning of useless avatar accounts i say this with huge tongue in cheek because (in case you didn’t know) i was “disabled” by facebook over a year ago facebook makes money by having high value data on you to sell to others. that [...]

sometimes i just don’t feel like doing anything – bah! that includes getting burned out of what i love so much – making stuff in virtual worlds. it seems that this happens to many people where they just need a break. i have had a few times like that but typically after two weeks i [...]

Four years ago I set up a social networking presence to help promote Ener Hax and the iliveisl Second Life “land sales” business. Ener Hax is an account name in Second Life but those of you familiar with Second Life know that these names can take on a life of their own (ener hax actually [...]