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Brain-controlled interface for Second Life

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:01:54 GMT

clipped by: Ryan Rasmussen

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Brain-computer interface for controlling Second Life avatars

From the Biomedical Engineering Laboratory at K...

Tags: emergent technology, haptics, second life, neuroscience, telepresence

Long Now: Avatar Afterlife

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:52:46 GMT

clipped by: Ryan Rasmussen
clipper's remarks: Incredibly inspiring forecast of the potential to commune with digital ghosts. - persistent existence less consciousness

Jones - "Creating a copy of online behavior and programming an avatar to respond to stimuli in the way the user has been during their digital life is not suggesting consciousness, merely sophisticated replication. This scenario has some intriguing consequences. Amongst them are the possibilities an individual could leave money to their avatar rather than their children in order to support their avatar afterlife, or that future generations would have access to a representation of their ancestors – but would having access to the temporal wisdom of our forebears be of any use? A digital representation of life could continue unhindered in a virtual environment, after real-life has ended."

Clip Source: blog.longnow.org

Avatar Afterlife

October 12th, 02007 by Alexander Rose

are on the verge of introducing systems to monitor their users online activity in order to better direct advertising toward them. It doesn’t seem long before this kind of marketing system will also be applied to virtual worlds. The process of distilling an individual’s online behavior into a digital profile is currently driven by the commercial needs of advertising but it is possible to imagine it being used in more creative ways. The software used to track the online behavior of users, within in particular system (virtual worlds or social networks) could be modified to track the entirety of their online behavior, over a longer space of time – say thirty years. At the end of this period the data could be used to program an avatar. This avatar would inhabit a virtual world or worlds and be programmed with all the users personal data, preferences and potential responses– would this lead to an avatar afterlife?

Roderick Jones

Tags: second life, virtual telepresence, afterlife, long now

How to become a word of mouth evangelist - Sernovitz

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 03:34:02 GMT

clipped by: Ryan Rasmussen

Clip Source: www.damniwish.com

Meet Ryan Rasmussen, the new Emerging Media Specialist at Levenger.

His job is to do all the cool social media stuff that we all talk about.

He represents the company in social networks and Second Life. He schmoozes bloggers. He encourages real consumers to help design and develop products. Basically, he does all those things that big companies are struggling with. While marketing departments and agencies are debating the optimal word of mouth strategy ... Ryan just does it.

I took a lesson from Tom Kelley in my approach. He prescribes a new face of business - that of the anthropologist. Embedded within vocal communities, I have found that using the emergent tools of the environment to spark discussion through collaborative new product development (otherwise known as "hacking") generates a great deal of positive feedback. The result is a spike in consumer generated marketing, and a steady stream of collaborative ideation that gives consumers a voice in the direction of 'their' company.

Tags: andy sernovitz, word of mouth, marketing, viral, ryan rasmussen, gaspedal, damn! i wish, social media, consumer generated marketing

77 Million Paintings: The Long Now Foundation in Second Life

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:31:22 GMT

clipped by: Ryan Rasmussen
clipper's remarks: The Long Now Foundation's virtual reception for Brian Eno's 77 Million Paintings exhibit in Second Life.

Clip Source: blip.tv

Tags: second life, cyrus huffhines, the long now foundation, long now, brian eno, 77 million paintings, blueair.tv