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Category Archives: Virtual reality

Lifestrea.ms: Keeping track of your 1 million and counting online identities

So you’ve given up trying to maintain your own Web site, gone nuts and become a network publication. Now if only you had 1 million producers to manage all those sites or…or…Lifestrea.ms?
I don’t know if the service will perform as promised. Read/WriteWeb has some concerns, but there’s nothing like finding out for yourself, especially when [...]

Play MMORPGs, befriend a level 70 orc warlock and learn about the future of news

Massive multi-player online role-playing games (MMORPGs) such as World of Warcraft, Guild Wars, Second Life and many more show how to exchange information in a goal-oriented, entertaining, community-building and gratifying way.
The interaction formula for MMORPGs is:

Start with little power and status relative to the power and status available for acquisition;
Overcome challenges by acquiring information, [...]