Glimpse Inside a Metaverse: The Virtual World of Second Life
A video of a recent TechTalk at Google by Philip Rosedale and Cory Ondrejka from Linden Lab, the makers of Second Life.
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.. something completely different .. still not part of my world .. but just worth watching .. a great video about the Ferrari F430 Spider by a brilliant reporter of the "Fifth Gear" magazine .. if you don't want to drive a Ferrari after watching that video, sorry, but you have to be from some other planet, or world ..
Paying For Web Services -- Easier Than You Think?: "Amazon's new S3 service is available on a pay-as-you-go basis. This is commonly called utility computing; it is totally analogous to the way in which you pay for the water, electricity, and natural gas that you use in your home."
.. interesting post .. it just shows one of the most important assets of Amazon: the technology, including processes, they accumulate in the huge space of Web Services .. the book store, just a cool test-case for their technology ..
Examine potential malware installers: "When the installer starts up, just choose File --> 'Show Files', and you'll get a detailed list of everything that will be installed."
.. just some little tip for OS X users .. at least I didn't know about that ..
"The Alexa Web Search Platform provides public access to the vast web crawl collected by Alexa Internet. Users can search and process billions of documents -- even create their own search engines -- using Alexa's search and publication tools. Alexa provides compute and storage resources that allow users to quickly process and store large amounts of web data. Users can view the results of their processes interactively, transfer the results to their home machine, or publish them as a new web service."
.. an other interesting WebService-offering from Amazon .. too bad, it requires C .. but definitely have to read the manual ..