- Opening of the experimental Italian Institute of Culture within the 3D interactive on-line world of "Second Life"
(tags: italy, secondlife)
- Seminar Bingo – Piled Higher and Deeper
Mark over each square that occurs throughout the course of the lecture you are attending. The first one to form a straight line must yell out "Bingo" to win. - Are we really friends? The trouble with buddy lists in social applications.
The trouble with buddy lists is that we end up collecting friends like baseball cards. Because I’m on your buddy list, it could be because we’re really closely connected, it could be because we met once at a conference two years ago, or it could be be - A Scarlet Letter For Second Life — RatePoint — InformationWeek
"Residents of Second Life will be able share their opinions of people in the form of a five-star rating, which is designed to establish which individuals are commerce-worthy". Very interesting! It uses a local trust metric (collaborative filtering-like):(tags: ditto, reputation, trust_metric, secondlife, rating, local, trust, metric, collaborative_filtering, whuffie)
I went looking for the Italian Institute of Culture on Second Life and I couldn’t find it. Have you located it?
I like the Eros Ramazzotti “Estil Libre” album too. I was led to it by hearing the Piu che Puoi duet on Radio l’Olgiata.net
It might be that they are thinking about opening it but they have not opened it yet? I don’t know. Sorry.
About Italian music, I might suggest you to check
De Andre’
De Gregori
Carmen Consoli
Daniele Silvestri
Start with last.fm from De Andre’ profile at
http://www.lastfm.it/music/Fabrizio+De+Andr%C3%A9
I think you are correct about the Institute of Culture on Second Life.
We are very much the Laura Pausini, Andrea Bocelli type of listeners here. (I like Zucchero too.) Thank you for the recommendations. I will check them out.
[I was teasing you for using a Ramozzotti album cover as one of your profile photos.]