Chat :: Internet
Virtual Places :: Chat
Online Communities :: Cyberspace

eWeek - RSS Feeds

Gartner Revises Server Share Numbers
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:43:24 -0400
Gartner revised its first quarter numbers and found that IBM actually beat out Hewlett-Packard in server revenue....
Who Is Running The Most Secure Browser?
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:03:13 -0400
Many users are undoubtedly not updating their browsers as quickly as they should, but you can't conclude any specifics about that from the recent study of Google logs....
DOJ Sued Over Cell Phone Tracking Practices
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:08:34 -0400
Civil liberties groups claim the Justice Department is bypassing warrants to obtain real-time tracking information on U.S. citizens....
Microsoft Internet Explorer Security Strikes Back
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:03:53 -0400
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 security builds on the Phishing Filter of IE 7 and thwarts cross-site scripting....
IBM Helps Link POS to the Back Office
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:50:30 -0400
IBM and Epicor jointly release an offering that centrally manages and supports POS....

The Seattle Times: Business & Technology

Troubles shadow G-8 summit
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:36:36 -0700
Between surging oil prices, food inflation and a credit crunch that's depressed global growth, leaders from the Group of Eight economic...
Florida may signal boom in coastal oil drilling
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:26:48 -0700
Oil companies once viewed drilling in the deep waters off Florida as cost-prohibitive. Politicians feared even the slightest sign of support...
U.S. share of foreign tourists slips, travel experts say
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:38:41 -0700
Despite the weak U.S. dollar, a boom in international travel around the world hasn't translated into an explosion of foreign tourists to...

NYT > Technology

As Web Traffic Grows, Crashes Take Bigger Toll
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:22:20 -0000
As the Web has become an irreplaceable part of life, users have become less forgiving of even occasional outages.
The Medium: File-Sharing Fetish
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:48:30 -0000
Eclectic video-sharing that doesn’t succumb to the porn imperative.
For Marketers, Viruses Just Won’t Cooperate
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:19:30 -0000
Viral marketing is much harder than negative buzz to generate.

CNN.com - Technology

Stealing ideas from nature
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:01:21 -0400
When self-confessed "nature nerd" Janine Benyus coined the term "biomimicry" in a book she published a decade ago, little did she know it would make her a household name, rubbing shoulders with Hollywood stars.
Faked tiger photo sparks Web furor
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:23:49 -0400
Read full story for latest details.
Tunguska blast still a mystery 100 years on
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:17:51 -0400
It produced a blast hundreds of times stronger than the Hiroshima bomb, was seen hundreds of miles away and narrowly missed obliterating an entire city -- but 100 years to the week after the mysterious explosion in Siberia, no one is any closer to understanding what caused it.

NPR Topics: Technology

Viacom May Soon Have Your YouTube Password
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:00:00 -0400
A judge ordered YouTube to hand over the log-on names and the Internet addresses of its users to media giant Viacom. The matter is stirring up major privacy concerns.
We Know What You've Been Watching on YouTube
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:13:00 -0400
A court has ordered Google to turn over a database that links users to every video they've watched on the popular Web site YouTube. Jennifer Urban, director of the University of Southern California Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic, says the ruling has big implications for online privacy.
Twitter, What Are You Doing? Co-Founder Tells All
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:51:00 -0400
Twitter.com has so many new users that the Web site keeps crashing. Meanwhile, Twitter engineers are taking popular features away for retooling. It's a painful process, but co-founder Biz Stone has a plan.

BBC News | Technology | UK Edition

Google 'faces Street View block'
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:56:34 -0000
Google's plans to launch a mapping tool in the UK could be referred to the Information Commissioner.
Warning letters to 'file-sharers'
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:41:04 -0000
The music industry says thousands of UK broadband users who share tracks illegally will be warned about it in letters.
Google must divulge YouTube log
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:19:53 -0000
Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched avideo on YouTube, says a US court.

Reuters Video: Technology

Japan asks: anybody out there?
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:02:00 -0400
Jul. 4 - Japan's biggest astronomical observatories are teaming up for a fresh quest to find out if there is life in outer space.
Reuters Technology Week
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:52:38 -0400
Jul. 3 - The robo-bartender, virtual haute couture, and global leaders ride hydrogen style.
Robo barman pulls first pint
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:03:25 -0400
Jul. 3 - Billed as the world's first robot barman, Mr Asahi pulls the crowds at London's Selfridges department store.

AP Top Technology News At 6:44 p.m. EDT

Court orders YouTube to give Viacom video logs
By ANICK JESDANUN Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:52:13 -0000
NEW YORK (AP) -- Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when....
2 teens attacked in town mocked in YouTube videos
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:44:12 -0000
DOVER, N.Y. (AP) -- Two teenagers who drove to Oniontown after a series of YouTube videos portrayed the hamlet as a run-down, backwoods dump were pelted with rocks by an angry group of young residents, authorities said....
Internet addressing agency loses its own addresses
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:57:41 -0000
NEW YORK (AP) -- This doesn't sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own....

CNET News.com

iPhone 3G queue forms in Manhattan
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:25:00 -0700
But the usual suspects--gadget fanatics--aren't the ones at the front of the line.
Privacy advocates praise Google's new link
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:55:00 -0700
Company's decision to add a link to its home page that leads to its Privacy Center is enough to quell a controversy.
Photos: Army designates year's best inventions
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:00:00 -0700
Every year, the U.S. Army designates a set of top inventions. This year's list includes a GPS-guided artillery shell and a new method for saving severely injured soldiers.

 

Subscribe to Computers RSS feed

3D Chat Virtual Universe - People can meet, interact with each other, build houses and whole worlds within a three-dimensional space.
Meta Description: [ 3dchat.org - the virtual reality environment software for everybody ]

3D Planets - A 3D virtual reality community. Visitors can chat, play games, hold community jobs, own homes, and buy objects.
Meta Description: [ A FREE 3D Virtual Reality chat community you have to see to believe! Get a 3D home, furnish it with 3D furniture and objects and chat in 3D environments using your 3D avatar. Fun for the whole family! ]

3D-4u2 multi-user VR solutions - 3D-4u2 offers multiuser 3D and virtual reality technology on the internet that seemlessly integrates most current technologies, ranging from live video to 3D animations and allows users to build themselves.
Meta Description: [ 3D-4u2 offers multi-user possibilities in virtual 3D environments on the Internet ]

Activeworlds - 3D virtual reality chat plugin software and servers. Design worlds, chat with friends, play games.
Meta Description: [ 3D Virtual Reality Chat at its finest. Create your own 3D world, chat with others in Virtual Reality environments created by others and much more ]

Alterlinks - Active Worlds resource for visiting or creating your own virtual world: hosting, textures, 3D objects, avatars, skyboxes, tutorials.
Meta Description: [ Alterlinks - Virtual Worlds 3D Active Worlds Hosting Free E-Mail Free Textures Free RWX ]

Atmosphere Work - Jim Coe's training and resources for world builders. Tutorials with 3D demos and JavaScripts for Adobe Atmosphere Lighting, and audio.

AtmoWire - Adobe Atmosphere tutorials, resources, directory, reviews, and news.
Meta Description: [ AtmoWire.com - Adobe Atmosphere Complete Resource Site ]

AW Europe - An official distributor of Activeworlds technology in Europe with 3D environments for both business and home use.
Meta Description: [ AW-Europe offers you multi-user 3D Internet using Activeworlds technology. Enter for free as a tourist, chat with others for free and learn how to build your own 3D place on the web ]

Cage8 - A Top 100 list for Adobe Atmosphere virtual worlds and websites, based on click-through rates.

Chicago3D.Net - A hosting reseller for Activeworlds, Inc. since 1998.
Meta Description: [ Activeworlds hosting, Active Worlds hosting and unique 3-d hosting. 3-d worlds for sale. ]

Contact Consortium - A research and trade association for virtual worlds, avatars, virtual community. Organizer of yearly Avatars conference.
Meta Description: [ A Forum about Virtual Worlds, Avatars, Virtual Community ]

Cybertown - A popular and long-running web-based multiuser world, using VRML and Blaxxun browser software. Chat, and use objects.

DigitalSpace Corporation - Software and world development company. Also home to Traveler online community.
Meta Description: [ Architecting the New Cyberspace ]

Dive - An Internet-based distributed multi-user VR system, developed by researchers at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science since 1991.

Dreamland Park - Explore, chat, and build a community using Active Worlds software.
Meta Description: [ Explore, Chat, and Build a community in this shareware virtual reality chat software! ]

Immersive Systems, Inc. - Home of Meme: extensible networked virtual reality software.

Moove - 3D chat world. Customizable avatars with facial expression. Users can chat, build and furnish a house, listen to music, share files. Can be integrated with external tools.
Meta Description: [ 3D Chat World moove online - Make Free Animated 3D Avatars in Virtual 3D Chat Rooms. Virtual 3D Chat Online World Roomancer - Rose: Free! Create own interactive Virtual 3D Avatars, Facial Expressions, Virtual Home Decorating of Unique 3D Chat Rooms, Create 3D Chat Online Home, 3D Chat with Friend... ]

OzGate - A site running several DigitalSpace Traveler worlds.

Planet Virtuel - 3D VR community with avatar based chat. Design and create your own home and surroundings.
Meta Description: [ PlanetVirtuel, Internet Cybersociety. Virtual Reality and Cyberculture 3D Avatar Chat. A Virtual community. Become Citizen, chat, create, build, and more in an online community. Free Virtual Reality Software. ]

Second Life - An online society within a 3D world where you can explore, build, socialize, and participate in their own economy.

The world of Ancient Mayas in virtual reality - 3D reconstruction of the Mayan Cities,using VRML or Adobe Atmosphere browser.
Meta Description: [ The models of the Mayan Cities in 3d reality ]

Travelers Network - Travelers Network offers free voice chat in 3D virtual worlds.
Meta Description: [ Travelers Network 3D virtual worlds combines VR and full duplex audio for the best experience in virtual reality. ]

Unknown Galaxy - An Active Worlds based system where you can build structures, play games, or chat with friends. Also offers world hosting for a fee.
Meta Description: [ 3D Virtual Reality Chat at its finest. Chat with others in Virtual Reality environments created by members and much more ]

Virtual Object System / Internet Virtual Reality - A software infrastructure for distributed object-oriented programming. The primary application for VOS is a multiuser virtual environment run by many interconnected clients.
Meta Description: [ VOS is a free software infrastructure for distributed object-oriented programming. The primary application for VOS is a multiuser virtual environment run by many interconnected clients and servers. ]

Virtual Worlds Review - A guide to online virtual worlds with a focus on social interaction. Basic info, visitor ratings, reviews and helpful links for each program.
Meta Description: [ A basic guide to social virtual worlds and avatar chat. ]

VRMLWorld.net - A portal to various VRML worlds, with multiuser chatting via VNet+. Free to use and to add your own worlds. Works best with IE and Blaxxun Contact.

VRSpace - An open source (gpl) virtual reality cross-platform 3D community software.

Ziekerdanziek's 3D Help Guide - Resources for building and visiting online 3D communities.
Meta Description: [ VRML.TK the most complete VRML and Avatar guide on the web ! Check out our virtual worlds in realtime 3d ! Interactive virtual worlds and avatars ! ]