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The virtual curmudgeon
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In 1985 Mr Zimmerman, along with Chuck Blanchard, Young Harvill and Steve Bryson, joined Mr Lanier’s recently formed company, VPL Research, that would pioneer virtual reality. “Jaron was picking up ...
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economist.com
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A cyber-house divided : Online as much as in the real world, people bunch together in mutually suspicious groups—and in both realms, peacemaking is an uphill struggle
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IN 2007 Danah Boyd heard a white American teenager describe MySpace, the social network, as “like ghetto or whatever”. At the time, Facebook was stealing members from MySpace, but most ...
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economist.com
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A virtual counter-revolution : The internet has been a great unifier of people, companies and online networks. Powerful forces are threatening to balkanise it
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THE first internet boom, a decade and a half ago, resembled a religious movement. Omnipresent cyber-gurus, often framed by colourful PowerPoint presentations reminiscent of stained glass, prophesied a digital paradise ...
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economist.com
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Untangling the social web : Software: From retailing to counterterrorism, the ability to analyse social connections is proving increasingly useful
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TELECOMS operators naturally prize mobile-phone subscribers who spend a lot, but some thriftier customers, it turns out, are actually more valuable. Known as “influencers”, these subscribers frequently persuade their friends, ...
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economist.com
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Putting your money where your mouse is : Crowdfunding: Artists, musicians and writers are using the internet to aggregate lots of small donations to fund their work
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WIKIPEDIA, a giant online encyclopedia compiled by volunteers, is the product of the aggregation of lots of people’s spare time. An example of “crowdsourcing”, it demonstrates that on the internet, ...
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economist.com
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Cleaner Chatroulette Rival Raises Seed Round
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VChatter, a video chat startup led by online dating pioneer Will Bunker, has raised $250,000 in seed funding, VentureBeat reported. The service is similar in some ways to Chatroulette, a ...
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A Future Built on Different Standards
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ILZ, AUSTRIA — Until a few years ago, Styria, a province in southeastern Austria bordering Hungary and Slovenia, was an economic backwater, a buffer zone between the prosperous west of ...
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