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The One-Look Virus and Immersive Environments for Teaching and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If Danah is so deeply rooted in social spaces, like MySpace and others, it???s been through the cycle a few times, hype and burn. s no wonder she does not see SL as a next step. To me, SL has the potential to replace all of those social networks with personal 3D spaces, all linked via a pseudo-metaverse. I also have been around this.

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Betting on Braincake: Interview with Jen Stancil

Museum 2.0

So how do you design for that kind of maturity, and for kids who want a MySpace? We didn’t want to build MySpace. One of the vendors made a proposal to us with the phrase: “It’s MySpace meets NASA." Have you gotten any negative feedback about it being too superficial or hyped for a research program?