Sara Jameson » tech

second life for freinds and educators

sara — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 12:48:11 +0000

I noticed that my girl Ellen has now gotten ito the second life world. She was flying around the other day uncontrollably, butnow she is bouncing back and forth among the differnt islands, and she is waiting for an invite to check out the inline second life swing / sex club. I am glad to see she is moving into the 3d world.

Another story I saw today was via the wired blog and it talks about educators (treachers) are actually using sexond life as a way to host virtual classrooms for distance learning and remote ututoring. Very cool, I look forward to this segment of distance learning to grow so that future genreation will have opporunities to learn from many people around the world in a way that actually works much better than trying to read a paper book.

What ever happened to that movement years ago to have video casts of the world’s best professors online for free? Is that still happening? I’d love to see that included into a virtual second life library.

Is google still going to be scanning and indexing the entire library of congress? Wouldn’t it be nice to walk into and enjoy the library of congress without having to travel all the way to DC.

fix8 changes your webcam face to anything you want

sara — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:43:27 +0000

This is one of the wildest fucking bits of technology I have seen in a while. The demo looks awesome. You can select and or customize all kinds of animated faces to have on your yahoo messenger or other IM. You have got to see this shit! Make yourself look like a roman warrior, or anime character, or even g busch and make movies with it? This is going to be a lot of fun, I hope it spurs some new viral videos, and a very cool way to posssibly make my new graphic novel!

I am going to play with this thing this weekend and see if I can get a new video on hot video stream!

sms text t-shirts for change

sara — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:38:16 +0000

I think this has some potential real power. This new company makes t shirts (customizable no less), that have slogans and a sn sms text number that other people can opo into their cell phones and get more information. Very cool marketing idea, and also a real possibility for sharing information and changes.

Jameson had mentioned that a place in China had received like a million text messages from citizens about building soe new manufacturing plant, and that all of those text messages had gotten the local government to halt plans for the development. Very cool that tech is being used for social change. Very cool indeed.

do your own background check

sara — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:34:05 +0000

I found apost at digg that talks about ways to do your own background check to see what ffutre landlords or other people may find out about you. Very cool info to gather for yourself, kind of an eye opener about how much info people can easily get about you though. Stalkers, crazy ex husbands, who knows who uses info sources liek this. I am all for freedom of information, we just need to spread the word for unknowing females about how giving away bits of information could lead some unsavory people into finding out too much about us.

sticky notes on web pages

sara — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:09:45 +0000

I was talking with James the other day and he was talking about some of the new technologies he has seen that are coming out. James shows me a video of this new technlogies that let people move web pages and videos and such around on a flat screen with their hand. One of the cool features in the video clip showed this guy flipping a web page over and adding some notes to the back of it, we talked about how cool that would be, so I did some esearch and found that TechCrunch had a few services like this featured.

Via techcrunch’s “5 ways to mark up the web“, I found a few cool ways to add notes to web pages and a few of them let you share the notes with other poeple wither publicly or privatley, very cool stuff I had not know about. Now to figure out all the ways I could use this and share with family and friends.