http://virtualvector.com Thoughts about the 3D world Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:14:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here are some predictions for 2010.  Check my last blog and my 2009 predictions for some background information. I don’t see the end of this social media explosion coming anytime soon. Maybe there will be a slowdown in a few apps like MySpace and maybe twitter but at the same time, ... http://virtualvector.com/?p=387 While the family is shopping or going to the movies, I told my son I was going to hang out at the bookstore and post my predictions for 2010. He thought it was pretty funny that anyone would care what I thought and started calling me “ Nostradamus”. Nothing like family ... http://virtualvector.com/?p=383 There was an interesting post on Massively called  "Is Linden Lab wasting its time on the existing Second Life population? Then John Carter pointed me to some of @DaleInnis 's posts related to Linden Labs "futzing around with the world"  that also got me thinking (good stuff, follow some of ... http://virtualvector.com/?p=373 Google just came out with Sidewiki.  You can read more about on Jason Falls blog. I've registred me as the owner of virtualvector.com with Google. Now I'm creating this blog post to see how it works. Do you have Sidewiki setup? If so, feel free to try it out on this page. ... http://virtualvector.com/?p=363 I was watching the latest talk on Balmer and the example he made of the guy with the Apple iPhone. For Balmer, he is at war with Apple. What they do is bad and what we do is good. I know people that won’t talk to me because that dialog ... http://virtualvector.com/?p=358 The thing many people hate about twitter is the noise.  If you are just there to socialize, it may not be a big deal but twitter can be pretty useful for more serious things too.  If you want to get information about cars or software or politics its there but ... http://virtualvector.com/?p=349 From plmconx I was off to my company's conference last week.  I've been doing these things for many years, usually as a participant but more recently as someone that is actually working there.  My job this time was to make a couple presentations, help out on some hands-on presentations, talk with ... http://virtualvector.com/?p=345 Society's feeling about engineers and scientists is as cyclical as a sine wave. Sometimes our abiity to recite PI to 30 digits is respected, sometimes the government tries to shut us up (Indina PI Bill). In 2009, the engineer is in voque again.  I mean, is there a better show on ... http://virtualvector.com/?p=329 Back in March, I noticed the Dulce Group started tweeting in Huntsville at @dghuntsville.  When I started following them, we exchanges a few DM's about social media and tweetups. It seems they have adapted to this twitter thing very quickly since then. The other day I got a tweet  that the Dulce ... http://virtualvector.com/?p=306 I'm surrounded by people just getting started or are thinking about twitter. These are people who really aren't interested in the technology but more the utility or are just afraid of falling behind. Some are asking "Do I Really Have To Join Twitter"   ?   So what is the minimum ... http://virtualvector.com/?p=296