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Building Social Capital: Raptr and Online Gaming Communities

Written by: Bill Sherman on Friday, 5 September 2008, 6:01 AM

Recently, I’ve been looking at social networking tools through the lens of the tech community. Creating Bonding Capital with Raptr Here’s an example of one social networking tool created specifically for gamers. Raptr allows people within a network to identify which games their friends are currently playing. Here’s how they describe their service If you’re [...]

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Living in a World of Accelerating Returns

Written by: Bill Sherman on Saturday, 21 June 2008, 4:18 PM

We’ve long heard about Moore’s Law and the Law of Accelerating Returns, but a recent article in Wired drives home how the powerful intersection of “better, cheaper, faster” impacts our lives. As [industry expert Jon] Peddie observes, it was only 11 years ago that the U.S. government spent approximately $33 million to build ASCI Red, [...]

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The Virtual Lunch?

Written by: Bill Sherman on Wednesday, 18 June 2008, 4:03 PM

In May, Cisco demoed a 3D holographic system for live “On-Stage” presence in a presentation between San Jose and Bangalore, India. Watch it. While the presentation is still a bit “commercialized” it’s a step ahead into the future. Ever since the days of Star Wars (we’ve dreamt of holographic projections) but this adds the immediacy [...]

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