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Archive for the “English Posts” category

EuroPython 2009: Real Google App Engine projects

by Christian Scholz on June 30, 2009

Bernd Dorn was presenting what LovelySystems is doing with Google AppEngine and how you work around certain limitations. Limitations of GAE The App Engine now has several limits: Code files 1000 x 10MB (max. 150MB) Static Files 1000 x 10MB (…)

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Are Facebook vanity URLs paving the way for OpenID?

by Christian Scholz on June 9, 2009

Vanity URLs are a strange thing to have, at least if you have so many of them. You have one on Twitter, on MySpace, on YouTube etc. and soon also on Facebook, starting on saturday. They are going to be (…)

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SPD vs. Fortschritt: 1:0

by Christian Scholz on June 2, 2009

Last week I reported about some delegates twittering the results of our federal president before the official results were presented. It raised many discussions about the use of new media. Now the council of elders of our parliament decided that (…)

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BIZZin3D: Immersive Internet Panel

by Christian Scholz on May 31, 2009

The first panel at the BIZZin3D event was about the Immersive Internet. Panelists have been Clare Rees/Linden from Linden Lab, Mirko Caser from Twinity and Dick Davies from Forterra. Moderator was Michael Schumann. It started with some introductions, starting with (…)

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Metameets 2009: Dr. Yesha Sivan about Metaverse 1

by Christian Scholz on May 22, 2009

This talk is about the ITEA2 Call2 Metaverse1 Initiative Background Goal: Global standards among real and virtual worlds. Bridging the gaps within virtual worlds between virtual and real worlds They define virtual worlds as a combination of: 3D, Community, Creation, (…)

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Metameets 2009: Robert Bloomfield about the Reynard Project

by Christian Scholz on May 22, 2009

According to this post this project is defined as follows: Reynard is a seedling effort to study the emerging phenomenon of social (particularly terrorist) dynamic in virtual worlds and large-scale online games and their implications for the intelligence community. He (…)

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Metameets 2009: Terry Thorpe about waves of changes

by Christian Scholz on May 22, 2009

Terry Thorpe of kohd talks about the utility aspect of virtual worlds but not about the entertainment aspect (e.g. WoW). His model to think about 3d web is not a tree but “waves of change”. And what’s happening with waves (…)

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Next stops: MetaMeets, SIGINT, BIZZin3D

by Christian Scholz on May 21, 2009

It’s time again for some travelling, starting today. So here are my next stops: MetaMeets in Amsterdam This virtual worlds conference takes place from May 22nd to May 24th in Amsterdam. I will be there until Saturday noon as I (…)

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A C64 laptop is what I want!

by Christian Scholz on April 6, 2009

So this here is pretty impressive: Needless to say that I’d want one. As I still have some C64 in the basement I guess theoretically it’s possible to do. But then again I am no hardware guy. But in case (…)

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Times are changing, please adapt, thank you!

by Christian Scholz on February 23, 2009

From the Pirate Bay Homepage:   Of course you can argue a lot if copyright laws are still matching the times we live in but I think what’s perfectly over the line is people banning from the internet for breaking (…)

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