Wired on Twitter and Second Life

There have been a couple of articles in Wired recently that I have found interesting, so I thought I would share the links with you guys.

The first is an analysis of Twitter that describes the site as creating a "social sixth sense" among friends who use it. I had played around a little with Twitter, but I hadn't been able to figure out its usefulness. This article helped me make some sense of it.

The second article looks at an interesting contradiction present in Second Life: on the one hand, companies (and universities) are pouring resources into building virtual environments there, but on the other hand, there's hardly ever anyone present in the world. I found some of the technical limitations attributed to Second Life that the article describes to be noteworthy. The Metaverse this ain't. :)


Posted by swatkins ( Aug 08 2007, 01:47:00 PM EDT ) Permalink Comments [1]