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Economic Activity in Virtual Worlds

July 31, 2006

Over the last few months, I’ve been try­ing to get a bet­ter under­stand­ing of what is hap­pen­ing with the con­cept of vir­tual worlds. Let me go into more details as to why I think this phe­nom­e­non has some real poten­tials. In this first entry in a series, I will explore the eco­nomic activ­ity sur­round­ing this phe­nom­e­non. Size of the […]

Where Virtual and Physical meet

March 31, 2006

There has been a fair amount of talk recently about Sec­ond Life and mySpace, which has left me won­der­ing: what hap­pens when phys­i­cal and vir­tual space meet? What are the legal chal­lenges that those world will meet. In this entry, I try to ana­lyze what I sus­pect will become a big­ger issue down the road. Many of the ideas […]

Modular by Design — Telephony

August 12, 2004

Another area where the mod­u­lar approach is start­ing to have an impact is in the tele­phone ser­vice arena. Tra­di­tion­ally, tele­phone ser­vice was offered on a land line and was divided into local ser­vice, long dis­tance, and extra fea­tures like caller ID, call for­ward­ing, etc… The model was pred­i­cated on the con­cept of one device (the phone) receiving […]

Webalizer.conf hacking: HideAgent

August 27, 2003

Many peo­ple have writ­ten to me to point out that they still get dupli­cate entries in their user-agent table after using the GroupA­gent trick I high­lighted. To remove those, you need to use the HideAgent direc­tive. Here is the list of HideAgent direc­tives I have in my file: HideAgent rv:1.4 HideAgent 3.01 HideAgent 3.02 HideAgent 4.01 HideAgent 5.0 […]

Route Around

July 25, 2003

Doc Searls wrote an inter­est­ing arti­cle enti­tled “Sav­ing the Net” in Linux Jour­nal. While he does present a dystopia in which the net is con­trolled by large cor­po­ra­tion that under­stand how to use reg­u­la­tions as a weapon, I beg to dif­fer on his vision of the future. My per­sonal sus­pi­cion is that the net com­mu­nity will route around […]