The end of Internet history, and Linden Lab's Second Life in a browser |
• Oh, the 'MySpace shot', in which men pose shirtless in front of their bathroom mirrors and women pout into their boobs. You think it makes you look sexy, but, truth be told, it makes you look like you have no friends. Which makes sense, considering the dudes are always hanging out shirtless in the bathroom and the chicks always look so freaking depressed :
 5 Facebook profile pics that make you look like a tool »
• Is history destined to repeat itself? Is the great revolutionary medium of our times, the Internet, destined to follow the path of its ancestors, radio and the telephone, a path of increasing consolidation and uncompetitiveness, leading over time, to slow stagnation? Or is there something fundamentally different about our times that will keep the network open and competitive for the foreseeable future? :
The end of Internet history? »
• With minimal fanfare, Linden Lab have launched a beta of their ‘Second Life in a browser' offering AKA Project Skylight. Found here, you can sign-up and check it out in a session lasting up to an hour. :
Second Life in a web browser: beta launches »
Author: Asterisk, for AZ10.com ~ 4 Dec 2010
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